Unit Marketing Manager

Costa Mesa, CA (On-site)

$161K/yr – $214K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the research driven marketing program with channel integration, multi million dollar budgets, and cross functional leadership to drive acquisition, retention and cross sell.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Plan and budget marketing research across products and channels to inform campaigns.
  • Demand & Channel Insights: Build integrated studies across print, digital, outdoor, and broadcast to optimize campaigns and cross sell.
  • People & Partnerships: Lead staff, vendors and cross functional teams to deliver on time and on budget while aligning with sales and ops.

Job Description

Responsibilities - Develop strategic marketing research plans and integration plans for designated products and for each marketing channel. - Develop and implement integrated marketing research studies to inform campaigns with elements including print, web, outdoor, promotions and broadcast. - Construct and manage marketing budgets including allocating funds strategically to integrated marketing plans and using discretion in making budgetary decisions (budget may be more than $5 million). - Define marketing positioning based on targeted segments to drive appropriate acquisition, retention, and cross-sell results. - Ensure strategic plans are delivered on time and on budget by managing long-lead planning, inter-departmental communications, vendors, cross-functional teams, and marketing research staff who oversee the implementation of day-to-day aspects of marketing projects and campaigns. - Track, report and analyze marketing research results data and refine marketing research plans appropriately to meet service quality, acquisition and retention and marketing program and product development goals. - Manage the development of the annual/monthly budget and forecast for Marketing Research Programs. - Collaborating with sales, operations, and other teams to ensure marketing and research initiatives implemented with the appropriate resources in other departments to support service quality, retention and growth goals. - Hire, train, and supervise staff. Develop goals and conduct performance appraisals. Approve and initiate salary increases, promotions, terminations, and other changes in employee status. - Contribute to Club goals and objectives by accomplishing related results and completing special projects as assigned by management. Preference: Integrating and leveraging brand standards across all distribution channels and marketing research activities across all products and all markets, negotiating contracts and managing vendor relationships to ensure vendors meeting Club expectations and needs. Requirements - Bachelors Marketing Preferred - 7-9 years Developing and managing integrated marketing research plans including budget development and forecasting. Required - Advanced knowledge and use of statistics, data interpretation, and statistical modeling. - Demonstrate partnering, leadership, interpersonal, project management and presentation skills. - Ability to think creatively and bring innovation to the marketing research approach. - Must be able to manage a heavy workload and make decisions on competing priorities daily. - High level of proficiency with Microsoft Office, Adobe, Excel, PowerPoint and Internet applications. - Travel Requirements: Occasional travel to off-site business meetings or conferences. (5%) Preferred - (no items) Benefits - Health coverage for medical, dental, vision - 401(K) saving plans with company match AND Pension - Tuition assistance - Floating holidays and PTO for community volunteer programs - Paid parental leave - Wellness programs - Employee discounts (membership, insurance, travel, entertainment, services and more!)
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AAA Auto Club Enterprises

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AAA is a federation of fully taxpaying, not-for-profit motor clubs in the U.S. with more than 62 million members that has been serving motorists for more than a century. Auto Club Enterprises is a group of AAA clubs serving more than 17 million members in 21 states, employing more than 14,000 people directly and working with thousands of independent businesses that provide benefits and service to our members. Our more than 300 branches receive 8 million visits annually, 23 call centers take more than 24 million calls per year and AAA.com and the AAA Mobile app are used more than 54 million times per year.Club Locations:AAA Alabama (Alabama)AAA Northern New England (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont)AAA East Central (Sections of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and New York)AAA Tidewater (Southeastern Virginia)AAA Missouri (Missouri, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and sections of Kansas, Illinois and Indiana)AAA Texas (Texas)AAA New Mexico (New Mexico)Automobile Club of Southern California (from Mono to San Diego Counties)AAA Hawaii Our Mission:Through dedicated employees we proudly deliver legendary service and beneficial products that provide members peace of mind and value.Our Values:RESPECT – Appreciate each other’s contributions.TEAMWORK – Excel through collaboration.RELEVANCE – Anticipate and adjust to evolving needs.CHARACTER – Do the right thing, honor our commitments.COMMITMENT – Relentlessly pursue excellence.We are committed to creating a workplace where all employees, regardless of background, or characteristics, are engaged, feel they belong and can grow and develop long careers with our organization. We are focusing on what we can do to help bring about meaningful change to advance diversity, inclusion and belonging in both our organization and our local communities

Founded in 1970
Costa Mesa, California, USA
6.7K employees (175 in marketing)
57% recommend to a friend
73% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
21M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.8M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.9%
Direct
53.8%
Referral
6.4%
Social
0.5%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.7K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
142 (2% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3