Marketing Manager - LEAP East - Freelance Position

LEAP East is brought to you by the team behind LEAP, the world’s fastest-growing technology platform.
Situated in Hong Kong, in one of the world's primary financial centers, LEAP East offers an unmatched vantage point into the future of technology and trade. Backed by key government authorities and institutional partners, the event provides a high-octane launchpad for global leaders, enterprises, and scaleups looking to drive innovation and expand across Asia, the Middle East, and worldwide.
This Marketing Manager role is responsible for designing and delivering critical aspects of the marketing strategy for LEAP East, to achieve commercial objectives and revenue targets.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Ownership and accountability for marketing strategy, including planning, implementation, management, and optimisation for both inbound and outbound marketing campaigns.
Delivers on strategic KPIs by driving online traffic, leads and conversions with the ability to present these ongoing results in regular updates.
Understands our visitor and exhibitors’ digital behaviour, through continual testing and reporting on channel and campaign performance, in order to optimise plans. This will include using Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics and other third-party platforms to spot issues and opportunities.
Benchmarks and sets new KPI targets to measure and elevate the performance of your digital marketing campaigns.
Work with our supporting agencies to develop the strategy and setup of all paid campaigns.
Measure and optimize our paid marketing using vendor-specific dashboards, Google Analytics, and marketing analytics reports.
Identifies evolving SEO practices and collaborates with internal stakeholders and external agencies to develop new cutting-edge digital campaigns.
Develops new and creative organic search growth strategies for each stage of a customer lifecycle, in accordance to the unique digital trends and platforms of various international markets.
Collaborate with content marketing and blog contributors to create high-quality content around important, relevant terms.
Manage and improve organic search engine performance and goal-setting based on clickthrough rates, traffic, and conversions.
Design and implementation of testing and optimisation strategies (including A/B testing, landing pages and CTA’s).
LEADERSHIP
Work with line reports & marketing team to ensure successful delivery of marketing campaigns in line with agreed KPI’s, event and divisional strategy.
Line manages digital marketer/s in order to successfully implement campaign strategies.
Provide guidance, feedback and inspiration to line reports.
ANALYSIS & INSIGHT
Monitor campaign performances by producing relevant and timely reports.
Recommend changes to campaign execution based on data insights.
Identify trends and insights, and optimize spend and performance based on the insights.
Share relevant insights with wider marketing team and senior management to drive revenues or pursue new opportunities.
PLANNING & CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT
Work with the marketing team to plan marketing campaigns to meet strategic objectives – visitor attendance, exhibitor acquisition.
Monitor operational implementation plans and ensure adherence to deadlines (including Drop Schedules, Gantt charts, Time & Action Plans, Content Calendars, Budget Trackers).
Assist marketing managers with the development of marketing budgets in line with plans and ensure digital elements of budget trackers are up to date.
MARKETING EXECUTION
Work with marketers to identify the target universe and key segments within the target universe
Assist with the development of personas, value propositions and messaging for each of the key segments for each product
Ensure that timely, relevant communications are sent through a full mix of digital channels and are optimised for each channel
Significant experience in a digital marketing role to manager level
Experience in using Eloqua, Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target
Analytical and questioning mindset
Solid experience of A/B web and email testing
PPC and SEO experience
Excellent time keeper, with ability to juggle multiple projects
Self-motivating with strong ability to work both on independent projects and projects involving many stakeholders
Proven experience of hitting digital channel KPIs
Passion for digital marketing
Ability to communicate ideas clearly, effectively and persuasively
Database development and growth including segmentation and personalisation
Deadline and target driven
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Proven experience as Marketing Manager, in events, advertising or agencies
Experience working on APAC market campaigns
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
Background Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
Thorough understanding & experience of digital (PPC, SEO, online advertising) and direct marketing.
Database development and growth including segmentation / advanced targeting.
Building relationships with partners and stakeholders.
Analytical and questioning mindset.
Significant exposure to design and print suppliers / agencies.
Strong copywriting skills.
Deadline and target driven.
Experience of working in a pressurised environment.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Proficient in the use of MS Office including intermediate/advanced PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
Technology savvy. Able to quickly adopt and work with new technology solutions.
Desirable:
Experience of using marketing automation technology (preferably Eloqua).
Experience of working with CMS platforms (but coding knowledge not required).
Experience of managing social media through scheduling platforms such as Sprout Social or Hootesuite etc. And experience of social media listening and sentiment analysis.
Experience of marketing analytics and reporting platforms (Google Analytics/Adobe or others).
Formal business/marketing higher education qualification.
Experience using Eloqua and/or Adobe Experience Manager.

Employment type
Contract

Work arrangement
Yes