Marketing Manager

Portland, OR (On-site)

$70K/yr – $80K/yrManager8+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and scale corporate marketing efforts by turning business goals into integrated campaigns, while building a high-performing team and maintaining brand integrity across channels.

  • Ownership: Lead day-to-day Marketing operations, campaign strategy to post-analysis, and cross-functional collaboration with sales, product, and leadership.
  • Team & quality: Mentor designers, copywriters, and coordinators; manage workloads and on-time, on-brand deliverables.
  • Analytics & optimization: Establish KPI-driven reporting, optimize campaigns, and drive learnings across digital, email, content, social, and partner channels.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage the day-to-day operations of the Marketing Department, ensuring alignment with company objectives and marketing strategies
  • Supervise, mentor, and develop members of the internal marketing and creative team, including coordinators, copywriters, designers, content specialists, and external contractors as required
  • Develop and execute integrated marketing campaigns across digital, email, content, social media, print, and partner marketing channels
  • Oversee campaign execution from strategy development through implementation, optimization, reporting, and post-campaign analysis
  • Ensure consistency and integrity of the Avant Destinations brand across all marketing channels and customer touchpoints
  • Manage team priorities, workloads, and performance to ensure marketing objectives are achieved efficiently and effectively
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand business objectives and translate them into actionable marketing plans and creative briefs
  • Manage campaign timelines, project priorities, workflows, and resource allocation to ensure efficient team performance
  • Analyze campaign performance using marketing analytics and reporting tools to identify trends, measure effectiveness, and provide actionable recommendations based on KPIs
  • Oversee email marketing strategy, execution, segmentation, automation, and performance measurement

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field
  • Minimum 8+ years of progressive marketing experience with at least 5+ years in a direct people-management role
  • Demonstrated experience leading integrated marketing campaigns from strategy through execution and reporting
  • Strong knowledge of marketing analytics, KPI reporting, and performance measurement
  • Experience managing creative teams and working with designers, copywriters, content creators, and marketing coordinators
  • Experience with email marketing platforms, marketing automation, and CRM systems
  • Experience with HTML, CSS, and video editing platforms is considered an asset
  • Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
  • Experience with Adobe Creative Suite is considered an asset
  • B2B marketing experience strongly preferred; experience within the travel, tourism, hospitality, or destination marketing industries is considered an asset

Preferred

  • B2B marketing experience strongly preferred; experience within the travel, tourism, hospitality, or destination marketing industries is considered an asset
  • Experience with HTML, CSS, and video editing platforms is considered an asset
  • Advanced proficiency in HubSpot; experience with monday.com strongly preferred

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
  • Fitness Center Access in our building
  • Beautiful downtown Portland office with convenient access to public transportation
  • Collaborative and supportive team environment
  • Opportunities to work within the exciting travel industry
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Avanti Destinations

Avanti Destinations has been inspiring independent travelers with innovative and authentic vacations for over 41 years! Avanti Destinations, formed in 1981, is the premier FIT (Fully Independent Traveler) tour operator. We are members of USTOA and ASTA. We deliver a unique vacation experience solely through acting as the travel advisor's travel advisor. We sell independent travel to Europe, Central & South America, Asia, and the Middle East & Africa, offering a wide range of modular FIT packages including air, rail, cars, hotels, sightseeing, transfers, and other experiential travel options. We specialize in providing hand-picked, locally owned hotels in large and small cities, as well as hard-to-find-options for experienced travelers at the best values.Follow us!Instagram: @travel_avantiFacebook: @AvantiDestinationsTikTok: @AvantiDestinationsYouTube: @AvantiDestinations

Founded in 1981
Portland, Oregon, USA
128 employees (11 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
21.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.3%
Direct
61.2%
Referral
8.3%
Social
0.5%
Paid
1.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~128

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
9 (7% of company)

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