Senior Marketing Coordinator

Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, HARMAN (NYSE: HAR) designs, manufactures, and markets a wide range of infotainment and audio solutions for the automotive, consumer, and professional markets. It is a recognized world leader across its customer segments with premium brands including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, and Mark Levinson® and leading-edge connectivity, safety and audio technologies.

The company is admired by audiophiles across multiple generations and supports leading professional entertainers and the venues where they perform. More than 25 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and infotainment systems. HARMAN has a workforce of about 25,000 people across the Americas, Europe, and Asia and reported sales of $5.9 billion for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014. Harman is an equal opportunity employer, offering a great work environment, challenging career opportunities, professional training and competitive compensation. Looking for a challenge where your experience is valued? Come see what you can achieve as a leader with Harman! (www.harman.com)

Nigel Wright Consultancy are working in partnership with HARMAN in their search for a Senior Marketing Coordinator to help support the Marketing Manager Europe North with all marketing and communication materials and activities.
The main focus of this position will including 90% marketing support and 10% administrative. This individual will assist in coordinating product launches, main events and trade shows.

The key responsibilities of this role will be:

To oversee the coordination and execution of trade marketing projects, including:

• Developing the relevant global brands and agency marketing materials.
• Assisting in the planning, coordination and implementation of merchandising and promoter projects.
• Developing local customer POS material
• Planning and coordinating the key customer fairs with agencies; to be responsible for creative design, production, to build-up and take down.
• Ensuring that there is a presence of samples for key customer fairs, coordinates with KAM
• Responsibility for developing, producing and delivering POS material for marketing activities.
• Responsibility for developing, producing and delivering PR Merchandising kit.
• Documenting and reporting stock level controlling and reporting of marketing materials.
• Creating materials to the highest level of accuracy and execution

To support initiatives in marketing by:

• Providing support for planned project and activities which have been planned yearly.
• Contributing to the marketing materials and activities evaluation by inputting requirements.
• Working independently to execute all material in a timely manner.
• Must prove a good understanding of the category, products, markets and competition.
• Must proactively make the relevant modifications to the marketing tools and provides input where needed.
• Aid in supporting the control of the budget for their categories.
• Contributing to the development strategy for the category and brand in the yearly business planning.
• Providing documentation and reporting to the overall marketing plan on a monthly basis.
• Aid in the coordination product launches with key customers e.g. product set-up sheets.

To provide support with Social Media:

• This role will be responsible for coordination of the social media activities
• Aid in the adaptation of the activities and input from central marketing to local market.
• Provide a high coordination of work with agencies.

This role will be involved with work processes by:

• Being proactive with providing regular feedback on how marketing material & tools can be improved.
• Supporting the Marketing manager with bench marking of vendors and agencies
• To be in regular contact with key stakeholders to understand areas of improvements.

The successful candidate should have the following traits:

Basic Qualifications:

• University degree in Marketing/Communication
• 3+ years work experience in a similar position
• Willing and able to work independently
• Excellent communication skills in English (oral and written)
• Excellent MS-Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Preferred Qualifications & Desired Competencies:

• Results-Driven
• Judgment
• Collaboration
• Change-Orientation
• Leadership

Eligibility Requirements

• Expected 40 days travel per year within Northern Europe

If you’re looking for a new challenge and recognize yourself in the requirements above. Please get in contact to discuss this fantastic opportunity in more detail. You can reach me on 0207 242 0427 / 0789 990 5573 or nici.spear@nigelwright.com