Marketing Manager - SEMEA / CEMEA

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About the role:

Kong EMEA is looking for a talented Regional Marketing Manager, to manage integrated campaigns across events, content marketing, social media, and paid digital campaigns within the Southern & Central EMEA region. The successful candidate will report to the Sr. Director Marketing EMEA, and work closely with the regional sales teams to understand market priorities and deliver impactful campaigns generating new business opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Establish yourself as a trusted and respected partner with Sales stakeholders, translating sales goals into marketing tactics and programs
• Work in partnership with the global demand generation teams to build and drive integrated marketing campaigns 
• Own, define & drive the regional marketing plan
• Manage regional budget and reporting
• Coordinate regional planning and execution with sales & marketing stakeholders to build campaigns to drive engagement, generate leads, and deliver pipeline
• Maintain ownership of the region’s performance, through consistent reporting, analysis, and optimisation efforts.
• Owning the leads process through the funnel and devising programs and activities to
• Accelerate lead time-to-valueIdentify focus areas and build plans to drive expansion
• Think creatively about customer journeys to drive engagement all the way through the marketing funnel from awareness to conversion.
• Implementing regional ABM and executive programs
• Partner with the sales development team to develop and execute effective inbound/outbound campaigns
• Work with the Partner team to harness the Partner ecosystem, build and drive integrated marketing campaigns with key partners

What you'll bring

• 10+ years of marketing experience working in a hyper-growth, fast-paced environment; specific expertise in software and SaaS/subscription models is strongly preferred
• Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to work remotely and effectively across cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with marketing platforms including Salesforce, Tableau, Marketo, event platforms, 6sense, CMS, Pathfactory
• Proven track record of delivering measurable results
• Exceptionally strong writing, presentation, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly and simply articulate concepts, messages, and plans.
• Role requires minimum French and/or German speaker, and English

About Kong: 

Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). As the innovation leader of cloud API technologies, Kong is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become "API-first" and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally - from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises - unleash developer productivity, build securely and accelerate to market.

83% of web traffic today is API calls! APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another. Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud. Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!

For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter. We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.