Senior Manager Global Portfolio Marketing- Product Marketing

Senior Manager Global Portfolio Marketing (Product Marketing)At Skillsoft, we are all about making work matter.

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Join us in our quest to democratize learning and help individuals unleash their edge.Overview:This Senior Global Portfolio Product Marketing Leader must have a passion and successful history for building and executing highly effective growth strategies and campaigns and delivering great products.

In this role, you will take market, customer, product, and competitive inputs to develop the appropriate go-to-market strategies that accelerate customer value and drive revenue for our organization.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for understanding our customers and market dynamics, exceptional understanding of product strategy and positioning, and a track record of cross functional collaboration to launch and scale products.

To be successful, this role must be comfortable being personably accountable to achieve measurable marketing results and thrive in a fast paced, customer centric, agile marketing model and collaborating with both global, regional and business stakeholders.Opportunity Highlights:* Leadership: You’ll lead an agile diamond marketing team for the compliance market segment globally; in this role is responsible to lead market, competitive and customer research to shape how we position our products in the marketplace; and drive strategy with your deep understanding of our products, use cases, and buyer personas that results increased new business and high customer retention rates for the compliance business This role is accountable to achieve KPI targets as mutually established with the business and regularly reports to Senior Management and the Diamond Team on target performance.* Product Positioning and Messaging: You’ll understand our customers’ needs and behaviors, define key benefits that differentiate our products and services, and deliver unified and compelling messaging across channels and partnerships to effectively promote our products and solutions.* Market Differentiation: Effectively communicate the value proposition of our brand to the industry to differentiate the company and products.

Work with Customer Market Leaders and Sales to refine our industry narrative with respect to breadth and depth of capabilities, products and partnerships.* Go To Market Strategy: Working closely with your global and regional marketing peers, Customer Market Leaders, and Sales, you’ll lead an agile marketing diamond team to implement successful go to market and launch strategies for new products and features.* Demand Generation and Customer Focus: strong marketing mindset coupled with proven demand generation, digital marketing acumen and customer focus are essential.

You’ll work collaboratively to deliver enterprise-wide demand generation campaigns that unify and amplify brand position, customer value, and ongoing customer communications.

This role owns the campaign goals and objectives for the compliance business and reviews and revises programs to maximize their impact.* Pricing Analysis and Modeling: You may work closely with the Customer Market Leaders and Corporate Strategy team to determine the optimal packaging and pricing strategies for our products.Skills & Qualifications:* Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or related Business discipline required, MBA is a plus.* At least 8 years marketing role that includes solid experience successfully implementing marketing plans across channels.

SAAS with a combination of B2B enterprise and prosumer experience preferred.* Experience driving results within a matrixed global marketing organization ecosystem, agile marketing experience a plus.* Demonstrated experience developing positioning and messaging for products that serve multiple use cases and personas, and a proven track record of creating and executing successful go-to market plans.* Expertise synthesizing customer, product, and marketing data to make analytic-driven recommendations.* Demonstrated problem-solving skills and the ability to manage complex, cross-functional projects to completion.* Highly motivated, positive attitude, and passionate about building profitable businesses.* Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills with superior attention to detail.

Track record of working with executive management.* Travel as needed.Success Qualities:* Adaptable and Agile.

Responds quickly to the changing needs of the business and is resilient in the face of setbacks or adversity.* Confident & Audacious Achiever.

Champions breakthrough initiatives and holds him/herself and others accountable for delivering.

Enjoys working hard; is action-oriented and full of energy for the things he/she sees as challenging; not fearful of acting without over-analysis.* Entrepreneurial Spirit with Learner’s Mindset.

Is uncomfortable with simply maintaining “status quo” and is intellectually curious and demanding of excellence and continuous improvement.* Committed to our Collective Purpose.

Leverages cross functional collaboration to solve complex business issues and drive greater results.* Authentic & Customer Centric.

Never compromises integrity to achieve results while constantly being mindful of creating a positive customer experience both internally and externally.

Adheres to an uncompromising set of core values and beliefs during both good and bad times; practices what he/she preaches.

Acts with the highest standards of conduct and is seen as a direct, truthful individual.MORE ABOUT SKILLSOFT:Skillsoft delivers online learning, training, and talent solutions to help organizations unleash their edge.

Leveraging immersive, engaging content, Skillsoft enables organizations to unlock the potential in their best assets
– their people
– and build teams with the skills they need for success.

Empowering 36 million learners and counting, Skillsoft democratizes learning through an intelligent learning experience and a customized, learner-centric approach to skills development with resources for Leadership Development, Business Skills, Technology & Development, Digital Transformation, and Compliance.Skillsoft and SumTotal are partners to thousands of leading global organizations, including many Fortune 500 companies.

The company features three award-winning systems that support learning, performance and success: Skillsoft learning content, the Percipio intelligent learning experience platform, and the SumTotal suite for Talent Development, which offers measurable impact across the entire employee lifecycle.

Learn more at www.skillsoft.com.Thank you for taking the time to learn more about us.If this opportunity intrigues you, we would love for you to apply!NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES: We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors.

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