Manager, Brand Marketing

Title: Manager, Brand Marketing

Reports to: Sr. Manager, Brand Marketing

Location: Seoul, Korea

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Primary Purpose:

We are seeking a strategic and experienced Brand Marketing Manager who combines strong brand ownership with deep, hands-on media expertise. This role requires operational proficiency in media planning, buying, and optimization to effectively manage and challenge media agencies, ensuring flawless execution and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will lead with a brand-first mindset, connecting media performance to brand health, business growth, and global strategy. This position plays a critical role in integrating media decisions with broader brand objectives while driving measurable outcomes across acquisition, awareness, and engagement.

Ker Responsibilities:

• Develop and deploy brand strategy aligned with global priorities and tailored to Korean market, ensuring media investments strengthen brand equity and business impact.
• Own Korea media strategy across full funnel, integrating media planning with brand objectives and global guidelines.
• Demonstrate hands-on proficiency in media planning, buying, and optimization to effectively manage and challenge agency performance.
• Plan and manage Korea media budget with accountability for both performance efficiency and brand-building effectiveness.
• Drive executional excellence in demand capture media (SEM, SEO, retargeting) while maintaining alignment with brand positioning.
• Brief and manage media agencies to deliver campaigns that reflect brand values and achieve strategic KPIs.
• Collaborate with Brand Analytics to measure media effectiveness in relation to brand health, acquisition, and traffic goals.
• Ensure integrated marketing plans across Media, PR, CRM, and activations reinforce brand storytelling and consumer engagement.
• Monitor campaign performance and implement optimizations that balance short-term results with long-term brand growth.
• Provide insights on how media performance connects to brand KPIs and influences overall business strategy.

Qualifications:

• At least 7-8 years of prior experience in Marketing.
• Proven experience as a brand builder with strong strategic thinking and ownership mindset.
• Deep understanding of global and local brand marketing principles and ability to connect media performance to brand health and business outcomes.
• Hands-on expertise in digital media planning, buying, and KPI analysis to manage and challenge agency execution.
• Experience managing media agencies and integrating media strategy with brand objectives.
• Excellent communication skills in English and Korean, with ability to influence stakeholders globally.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to make data-driven decisions that balance performance and brand equity.
• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Communications or MBA is a plus.
• Experience in branding, campaign launch, and leadership roles within multinational environments.
• Growth mindset, proactive approach, and ability to lead complex projects with cross-functional teams.

Our Competencies for All Employees

• Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
• Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

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