Director of Marketing - HPE Japan

  

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

   

The Marketing Leader (HPE Japan Geo) is a leadership role, and the successful candidate will have a strategic mindset with an ability to confer and influence outcomes with the senior leadership of the HPE business. The role will report to the HPE General Manager of APJ Marketing. 

 

The ‘Marketing Leader’ for Japan will be responsible for all aspects of marketing for the Japan region. This includes planning with key stakeholders (incl. customer and partners) and converting top business priorities into impactful marketing execution plans. This role will be part of the Japan Geo leadership team and will represent all HPE marketing within that group. This role will also be part of the HPE APJ Marketing Leadership group.

Here are the key attributes of the role :

Increase HPE’s revenue and market share by architecting innovative and effective marketing plans, see them through to execution, measure results and reflect on learnings for the future  

Improve Annual Satisfaction Survey scores including brand related metrics for customers and partners as well as employee survey scores for direct team members  

Improve our skills as marketers by building a vibrant HPE Marketing team in Japan which includes extended HPE Channel marketing community to share, create and leverage best practices globally  

Help bring to life HPE’s vision and strategy through effective field and channel marketing execution 

 

Your Key Responsibilities 

Drive end-to-end marketing execution and planning with a focus on demand generation across all marketing tactics including events, direct marketing and digital marketing. This includes both HPE Direct and Channel led executions. 

Primary Organizational Linkages:  

Sales and business teams: Work closely with HPE Business unit leaders (Ex. Hybrid Cloud, Compute, Channel etc.) and translate top priorities into impactful execution plans 

Overall leadership role for marketing in Japan will mean working closely with APJ Marketing leader and APJ/ WW team members to uphold HPE’s global marketing framework and policies in the region 

Develop strong C Level relationships with key HPE channel partners and customers 

Potential KPIs

Pipeline (incl. conversion metrics) and ROI for overall business and strategic areas of the business 

Customer Engagement Metrics, Awareness metrics, Media efficiency and demand waterfall metrics 

Focus Channel partner growth for those with DF (Development Funds) investments 

Customer Acquisition (New Revenue, incremental impact) 

Employee satisfaction scores and metrics 

Partner satisfaction scores related to co-marketing 

Overall utilization of budgets 

Strong compliance and ethics posture 

Key Decision Right(s) and influence:  

Allocation of budgets across the media mix 

Managing a team that helps with planning and execution of marketing campaigns, in accordance with HPE Global marketing framework 

Roles of team members reporting to the successful candidate (Does not equate one on one to resources, only meant to outline team capabilities): 

Media Mix Planner 

Events Planning and Execution 

Mktg Operations 

Partner Marketing 

DF Administrator 

Sales Liaison 

 

About You 

Business Analyst (BA) or bachelor’s degree in marketing or related business fields is mandatory; Master of Business Administration (MBA) is preferred 

15+ of years marketing experience 

People management skills and experience are mandatory (Min 7 years) 

Experience in leading the marketing function or sub-function for an IT solutions organization in Japan 

Partner or Enterprise sales and marketing experience, industry or channel experience in the IT industry will be a plus 

Co-marketing experience and experience in administering and managing channel marketing investments is mandatory 

Strong people management skills and ability to leverage a matrix organization to deliver the right outcomes for the HPE business 

Innovation mindset, continuously innovate and bring to the table new marketing execution ideas and campaign suggestions which reflect the trends that are shaping our industry (Ex. AI in marketing) 

Vendor management experience: Ability to develop and enhance close working relationships with local and global vendors 

Strong posture on compliance, plan and execute within ethical, financial and legal boundaries at all times 

Deep understanding of Marketing principles and strong grasp over an ever evolving Martech tools 

Experience in developing and driving strong outcome-oriented relationships with partners 

Excellent written/ oral communication and analytical skills 

Strong interpersonal skills: ability to thrive in matrix environments and work effectively within virtual teams 

Strong negotiation and influencing skills with vendors and stakeholders 

Ability to interface effectively with different levels of management and functional stakeholders in HR, Finance, procurement and related functions 

Fluency in English and Japanese language, written and oral 

Ability to work in a multi-cultural, multi-country and diverse business environment 

Comfortable with hybrid work arrangement which includes a mix of remote, onsite with partners, at events and in HPE premises. Ability to travel for work 

Additional Skills:

Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning, Active Listening, Bias, Business, Business Planning, Coaching, Commercial Acumen, Computer Literacy, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Customer Insights, Data Analysis Management, Data Collection Management (Inactive), Data Controls, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity, Market Analysis {+ 5 more}

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

Marketing

Job Level:

Director

    

    

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