Marketing Coordinator II (Band & Orchestra)

Yamaha employees are committed to helping everyone progress, express and connect through music and sound. We offer innovative, finely crafted and award-winning products for the entire journey. As the world’s largest musical instrument manufacturer, we are known for our quality, customer service and innovation.

Key Accountabilities Include
• Assists and facilitates the movement of marketing materials, assets, and other key documents through the Category/Vertical marketing team and YCA cross-functional team (as required)
• Ensures that expenses for assigned product categories are align with the marketing budget guidelines
• Ensures marketing meetings and projects are scheduled, coordinated, tracked, feedback captured/uploaded, and approvals provided on time and within budget
• Ensures creative and production projects are started and complete on time and on brief

Primary Responsibilities Include
• Provides internal and external stakeholders with up-to-date marketing materials, promotional content, new product information, and dealer assets
• Coordinates with in-house agency project management and account teams
• Supports execution of approved marketing promotions, including rebates, spiffs, fulfillments, packouts, notices, etc.
• Processes department invoice/billing and participate in periodic expense and inventory reviews
• Maintains communications/content calendar and keep records of marketing content up to date

Core Functional Competencies
• Business Acumen: Understand how the business works, including how YCA makes money and achieves
goals
• Customer Insights: Ability to understand and interpret customer data, behaviors, and feedback into conclusions that can be used to make marketing decisions
• Digital Asset Management (DAM): Catalogue, manage, and protect digital assets
• Market Understanding: Knowledge of market and Yamaha's position in it, as well as prospective
customer base
• Project Communication Management: Link people (including team members and stakeholders), ideas, and information throughout the project life cycle; include timely generation and collection of information along with its proper dissemination and archival process
• Project Integration: Ensure that all of a project's work elements are coordinated, including project planning and execution processes
• Sales Alignment and Support: Align marketing work with, and support, sales efforts

Core Behavioral Competencies
• Yamaha Way (Will, Integrity, Initiative, Challenge, Commitment)
• Customer Focus
• Value Differences
• Action Orientated
• Communicates Effectively
• Self-Awareness
• Being Resilient

Qualifications
Ideal
• Provide history of meeting deadlines and accurate reporting
• Demonstrates success working in a fast-paced and dynamic working environment, collaborating across multiple internal and external teams

Preferred
• Experience coordinating promotional marketing assets and approvals
• Experience working cross-functionally in Marketing Operations and/or Creative Services with management of calendars and process
• Demonstrated success working within a project management platform

Compensation
• The hiring range for this position is $28.37-$33.65/hr. + bonus. This is the hiring range and does not include the value of benefits. The hiring range does not reflect total earning potential over time.
• Final offers within the posted compensation range are based on qualifications, skills and experience required for the role.

Here’s What We’ll Bring
• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Vision, Dental, LTD, Life-Insurance and 401k with match AND automatic contributions
• Performance based bonus program
• Robust employee wellness programs including free music lessons
• Gym and wellness reimbursement program
• Tobacco cessation reward program
• Free concerts from award winning artists
• Discounted hotel, travel, entertainment, and other attractions
• Employee product purchase program
• Flexible work options (including hybrid schedule)
• Casual dress
• Vacation, sick-time and personal floating holidays
• In-office events, for example -- Bring Your Dog to Work Day, Employee Singing Competitions, Spirit Week and other fun events
• Inclusive and passionate culture