Job Description Summary:
To lead the development, implementation and execution of strategic marketing and communication plans across the Asia region, to attract and retain customers and build brand equity for the Company's poultry genetics business. Based in Bangkok, Thailand, and reporting directly to the President, Asia with a dotted line to the Director of Global Marketing and Corporate Communication, this role leads a team of two and balances regional commercial priorities with global brand consistency. Job Description:
Ultimately, the position holder will help the Company build and maintain a strong and consistent brand across the Asia region through a wide range of online and offline marketing channels, while leading a small regional marketing team.
Strategic Marketing & Planning
Develop and lead the Asia regional marketing strategy, aligned with both the President Asia's commercial priorities and global brand/marketing direction.
Translate global strategy into market-specific plans that reflect the significant diversity across Australia, New Zealand, China, India, Thailand, Japan and other Asia markets (customer maturity, regulatory environment, language and culture).
Research and analyse sales and market intelligence and competitors' trends, to forecast future needs and opportunities across the region.
Represent Asia regional marketing needs and insights into global marketing planning and portfolio discussions.
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Team Leadership
Lead, develop and manage two direct reports, setting clear objectives, providing coaching, and building marketing capability across the team.
Allocate team resources and workload across multiple countries and priorities.
Educate, develop, motivate and challenge team members to achieve superior performance; support direct reports in implementing their development plans and maintain succession planning.
Foster a high-performing, collaborative team culture, including where team members are based in different countries.
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Brand & Communications
Ensure consistent application of global brand standards while enabling appropriate localisation for each market (language, imagery, regulatory compliance, cultural nuance).
Oversee the design and production of promotional materials, including technical bulletins, literature, brochures and case studies across the region.
Oversee branding, advertising and promotional campaigns, track effectiveness and test new opportunities.
Ensure brand consistency across all marketing channels.
Manage internal and external stakeholder communications across the region, including corporate announcements, crisis/issues communication protocols, and cross-market coordination with local country teams to ensure message consistency and timely execution.
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Digital & Content Marketing
Direct the regional digital marketing strategy, including website content, social media and email/CRM campaigns, tailored to each market's digital maturity and platform landscape (including China's distinct digital ecosystem, e.g. WeChat).
Increase the effective use of CRM tools to amplify company messaging and support data-driven marketing decisions.
Ensure content localisation and translation processes are efficient and quality-controlled across the region's languages.
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Customer & Industry Engagement
Oversee regional presence at major industry trade shows, conferences, seminars and webinars across Asia markets.
Support Sales and Technical Services teams across the region in customer engagement activity, including technical seminars, farmer/producer days and webinars, ensuring marketing activity reinforces technical credibility with breeders, integrators and producers.
Support sales via the production of informational materials and tools, and educate employees about industry trends.
Build and maintain relationships with industry influencers and key opinion leaders to better understand industry sentiment and trends, and to promote the Company's messages.
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