Field Strategic Marketing Manager Japan

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Field Marketing Manager to join the Japan Marketing Team responsible for developing and executing the marketing strategy for our major accounts in Japan in line with our business objectives. This position will report to the Director of JAPAC DG Hub and Japan Marketing and presents a great opportunity for a talented individual with the desire to be part of a fastgrowing company in a truly international environment.
In this role you will be a key player in the transformation of the security market and work with stakeholders across the company to fuel awareness and demand. Your responsibilities will include closely partnering with the Japan sales teams to create and implement impactful marketing strategies customised for the top accounts in Japan as identified by the Japan Sales Team. You will collaborate closely with the sales and account management teams to integrate marketing efforts with account strategies and goals as well as establish clear goals and KPIs for accountspecific marketing initiatives.

Your experience in field channel demand generation or campaign marketing in the cybersecurity industry as well as your love for fastpaced initiatives will benefit you in this role. 

Your Impact

• Develop and execute comprehensive marketing strategies tailored to a defined list of target accounts in Japan seamlessly aligning with our Japan business plan and provide program measurement and reports of the same
• Develop and execute marketing strategies tailored to a defined list of target industries in collaboration with the sales team
• Design tailored experiences including whiteglove and micro experiences personalized to the preferences and needs of the CXOs
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful campaign and event execution and high engagement from key accounts while tracking and evaluating event outcomes and incorporating feedback into future planning
• Collaborate with Japan Top of Market sales teams to understand priorities aligning strategic accountspecific marketing programs to support sales objectives
• Partner with marketing and inside sales teams to align efforts discover and deploy topperforming tactics to create develop and close qualified leads and opportunities and communicate program status action items results reporting and deliverables across marketing and sales
• Collaborate with the channel marketing team to map joint ABM efforts with the Value Partner strategies
• Manage campaign budgets and ensure efficient allocation of resources to maximize ROI

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 10 years in a field channel demandgeneration or campaign marketing role preferably in the cybersecurity industry
• Knowledge of and experience in marketing to enterprise sectors preferred
• Experience owning and partnering on marketing programs with an understanding of how to measure marketing mix performance
• Passion and skill for leading and partnering with crossfunctional teams
• Experience working with and communicating with sales teams
• Excellent communications and project management skills as well as exceptional attention to detail
• Ability to think strategically come up with effective solutions across teams and communicate them effectively
• Handson experience in Salesforce.com and/ or Marketo with the ability to track campaigns leads and pull reporting
• Handson experience with managing events and working trade shows with a deep understanding of event planning from strategy to execution
• Not afraid to roll up your sleeves to work on what needs to get done list uploads creative projects  data cleaning etc.
• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required
• Enjoy working in a fastpaced highgrowth environment
• Proficient in English speaking and writing skills

Additional Information :

The Team

Our Marketing team has an opportunity like no other industry: highimpact work and the chance to change the future of digital security globally. Your hands will be in industryleading content created in the face of rapidly growing threats: cyberattacks. Being in marketing at Palo Alto Networks means that you will be in the midst of the changes impacting our industry and helping our internal teams customers and partners address the everchanging threats we all face on a daytoday basis.

Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

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