What Jobs are available for Communication in Malaysia?

**Additional Information**
**Job Number**
**Job Category** Sales & Marketing
**Location** JW Marriott Hotel Kuala Lumpur, 183 Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia, 55100VIEW ON MAP ( Full Time
**Located Remotely?** N
**Position Type** Management
**JOB SUMMARY**
This Marketing and Communication Manager provides marketing, communication, PR, and digital marketing expertise to a market (or cluster) of properties with some regional proximity. This role provides high-level consultation and guidance to property Marketing and Communication teams by helping manage and coordinate marketing strategy across hotels consistent with Portfolio and Continent strategy. This Marketing and Communication Manager supports direct marketing plans, targeted campaigns, and activating channels to drive revenue, increased market share, and brand awareness for their property partners. This role looks across a market at all local, social, and digital marketing efforts to effectively integrate with the selling efforts for the organization. This role exercises knowledge of how to leverage public relations to drive hotel and brand awareness; serves as both a contact point for hotels as well as the regional PR team. This Marketing and Communication Manager pulls through Continent marketing programs and leverages sales channels and platforms based on the local needs of properties to position the hotel and its offerings in a relevant way to potential guests. Finally, this role plays a key part in supporting new hotel openings; they partner with other disciplines (e.g., Sales, Revenue Management, and eCommerce) to help the hotels open successfully, and also provide strategic consultation around marketing budget planning and activities.
**CANDIDATE PROFILE**
**Education and Experience**
**Required:**
- 2-year degree from an accredited university in Marketing, Public Relations, Business Administration or related major and 4 years experience in the sales, marketing, digital or related professional area; hospitality marketing or digital advertising experience preferred
OR
- 4-year bachelor's degree in Marketing, Public Relations, Business, or related major; 2 years experience in the sales, marketing, digital or related professional area; hospitality marketing or digital advertising agency experience preferred.
**CORE WORK ACTIVITIES**
**Regional Marketing and Advertising**
- Partners with properties to execute promotions and campaigns through traditional and digital channels that target in-house guests with promotions that drive incremental revenue
- Ensures all advertising for the hotel in traditional advertising mediums and digital and social media channels is in brand voice
- Serves as a consultant to properties to provide guidance on how to leverage advertising agencies on supporting advertising campaigns, creative and media plans, and food and beverage promotions.
- Maintains frequent, active engagement with the cluster Director of Marketing & Communications and cluster eCommerce and Digital leads to ensure alignment, pull-through, and 2-way communication about status, performance evaluation, opportunities, and issues related to online programs and initiatives
- Supports execution of email marketing campaigns for their region
- Supports the overarching marketing strategy by helping properties activate and manage their content on relevant digital platforms
**Regional Social Media Support**
- Focuses on supporting region-wide digital engagement via social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Sina Weibo, wechat, etc.)
- Facilitates social media engagement, Hotel Website content update (especially for Food & Beverage outlets), and updating content in other digital channels (e.g., hotel websites)
- Supports the execution of promotions campaign in F&B, weddings, spa, rooms and conferences through relevant social media channels
**Public Relations and Visual Asset Management**
- Maintains a comprehensive list of international and local media contacts, with particular emphasis on F&B media contacts
- Manages assigned accounts as per the media account management system
- Manages external vendors and media agencies; work with agency partners to identify strategic media buys for their hotel(s)
- Liaises with continent PR leadership to ensure media placement for hotel(s) supports the overall hotel marketing strategy
- Acts as consulting resource for property marketing teams looking for regional photographers for food, amenity, and property imagery and ensures all photography adheres to brand voice
**Regional Marketing Activation Tracking**
- Consults with Brand and Field marketing leaders on the execution of marketing strategy through digital channels
- Liaises with Marriott Rewards teams, sales, and revenue management to ensure digital customer engagement is right for property/regions
- Provides consultation to property Marketing Communications teams on correct pull through of brand voice in digital channels (e.g., social media, OTAs, HWS)
**Activates New Hotel Openings**
- Assists and supports the coordination of photography for F&B advertising, collateral and public relations purposes between the hotel, advertising agency and the marketing department at corporate office
- Partners with Director of Sales and Marketing and Field Marketing team to help plan marketing budget, both for pre-opening period and through post-opening
- Partners with regional Online Sales and Marketing managers to ensure on-brand property imagery is live in digital channels (e.g., social media, OTAs, HWS)
- Work with regional eCommerce and Digital teams to position the hotel on digital channels
- Collaborate with regional Field Marketing to develop, recommend and execute the opening S&M plan for the hotel
- Ensure photo shoots and photography for property are in brand-voice before they are incorporated into marketing channels
- Engage with owners and hotel GMs to help explain and set up services of marketing support
**General Responsibilities**
- Assists with the development, co-ordination and execution of all communications activities with a strong emphasis on F&B promotions and campaigns across their region
- Works with eCommerce to ensure their hotels' website and related websites are updated on a regular basis
- Provides training and marketing leadership and acts as a marketing subject matter expert for area Sales, Revenue, and Operations leaders
_At Marriott International, we are dedicated to being an equal opportunity employer, welcoming all and providing access to opportunity. We actively foster an environment where the unique backgrounds of our associates are valued and celebrated. Our greatest strength lies in the rich blend of culture, talent, and experiences of our associates. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, including disability, veteran status, or other basis protected by applicable law._
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**Additional Information**
**Job Number**
**Job Category** Sales & Marketing
**Location** Marriott Executive Apartments Kuala Lumpur, 17 Jalan Kia Peng, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Malaysia, 50450VIEW ON MAP ( Full Time
**Located Remotely?** N
**Position Type** Management
**JOB SUMMARY**
The Marketing and Communications Manager is part of an important team that creates and executes property-level communications to our customers. Under the leadership of the Director of Marketing and Communication, this role promotes on-brand messaging to customers through traditional, digital, and social media channels all with the goal of enhancing the image of the hotel. This role helps build direct marketing plans, targeted campaigns, and activated channels to the end of driving consumer awareness and preference, increasing market share, and building broader portfolio and brand awareness. This role focuses on showcasing Food and Beverage promotions, both to hotel guests and to local patrons. As part of the Marketing and Communication team, this role is fully connected into resources in their region; Marketing and Communication Managers liaise and build deep partnerships with their regional eCommerce and Marketing teams to verify all local, social, and digital marketing efforts are effectively integrated with the selling efforts for the organization. This role also gets to do a little bit of everything, from balancing traditional and digital marketing and eCommerce activities to contributing to public relations (PR) activities for the hotel. Success is measured by how well they help drive the sales and revenue strategy of the property, social media engagement and also by how effectively leveraged the resources around them are to create truly compelling marketing and communications campaigns.
**CANDIDATE PROFILE**
**Education and Experience**
**Required:**
- 2-year degree from an accredited university in Marketing, Public Relations, Business Administration or related major and 4 years experience in the sales, marketing, digital or related professional area; hospitality marketing or digital advertising experience preferred
OR
- 4-year bachelor's degree in Marketing, Public Relations, Business, or related major; 2 years experience in the sales, marketing, digital or related professional area; hospitality marketing or digital advertising agency experience preferred.
**CORE WORK ACTIVITIES**
**Hotel Marketing and Advertising**
- Executes annual marketing plan to budget, in consultation with the GM, Food and Beverage leader, Operations leaders, Director of Marketing Communications, and cluster marketing and ecommerce teams.
- Partners with Operations, Food & Beverage and Sales teams to execute promotions and campaigns to target in-house guests with promotions that drive incremental revenue to the hotel.
- Acts as the liaison between the marketing department and advertising agency on the tactical advertising campaigns' creative and media plans, particularly for food and beverage promotions.
- Manages F&B media schedules and verifies prompt settlement of accounts.
- Partners with property Revenue Management to verify correct offer loading, verifying advertisement targeting is correctly directed at relevant consumer groups
- Executes email marketing, and display advertising.
- Maintains frequent, active engagement with Cluster eCommerce manager to verify alignment, pull-through, and 2-way communication about the status, performance evaluation, opportunities, and issues related to online programs and initiatives.
- Verifies all advertising for the hotel in digital channels is in alignment with brand voice.
**Social Media Content Management**
- Facilitates social media engagement and updating content in local digital channels (e.g., hotel website, travel sites).
- Develops and executes promotions campaign in F&B, weddings, spa, rooms and conferences through relevant digital and social media channels.
- Engages in proactive online reputation management by surfacing relevant guest comments (positive or negative) in social media channels and responds accordingly.
**Public Relations and Visual Asset Management**
- Develops a comprehensive PR plan per quarter along with agency and and executes post sign-off from GM.
- Maintains a comprehensive list of local media contracts, with particular emphasis on food critics and bloggers.
- Manages assigned accounts as per the media account management system.
- Writes and distributes all press releases for property events, promotions, and outlets.
- Manages the execution of hotel sponsored events, community/government relations activities, and press promotional activities.
- Supports pull through of impactful PR strategy & activities to drive quality press coverage through media engagement, in alignment with communications objectives.
- Verifies the news clippings and other online, print, and social media mention report is completed on a monthly basis for property distribution.
- Manages external vendors and media agencies; works with agency partners and continent PR leader to identify strategic media buys for their hotel(s).
- Surfaces and vets PR leads from the continent PR Leader regarding which are the best media to promote the hotel.
- Supports the co-ordination of photography for F&B advertising, collateral and public relations purposes between the hotel, advertising agency and the regional field marketing teams.
- Manages photo shoots for seasonal or festive promotions in partnership with the cluster or area marketing team.
- Acts as central point of contact for regionally approved local photographers for food, amenity, and property imagery; coordinates with area or cluster marketing to verify all photography adheres to brand voice.
**Direct Marketing and Collateral Development**
- Coordinates and executes Hotel and F&B printed materials.
- Controls quantity and inventory of all Hotel marketing collateral and verifies copies are filed in a comprehensive manner.
- Assists in the production of all property, F&B display, and temporary signage in hotel public areas.
- Promotes collection of competitors collateral and publicity on a monthly basis.
- Manages the execution of F&B direct marketing activities.
- Verifies all collateral is as per brand standard guidelines and in compliance with Brand Standard Audit (BSA).
**General**
- Assists and manages the development, co-ordination and execution of all communications activities with a strong emphasis on property F&B promotions and campaigns.
- Helps with the publication of hotel's newsletter(s).
- Supports communications duties and functions as deemed necessary.
- Assists in the liaison and execution of joint F&B promotions.
- Works with eCommerce to verify the Hotel's website and related websites are updated on a regular basis.
- Partners with Director of Marketing to create marketing plan aligned to hotel sales and revenue strategy.
- Provides training and marketing leadership and act as a marketing subject matter expert for GMs, Sales Leaders and Managers, and Revenue leaders.
- Coordinates with property and above property eCommerce and Revenue Management teams to report success of property marketing and eCommerce performance.
- Keeps abreast of competition and its collateral, advertising, and marketing efforts and constantly evolving digital and marketing trends.
_At Marriott International, we are dedicated to being an equal opportunity employer, welcoming all and providing access to opportunity. We actively foster an environment where the unique backgrounds of our associates are valued and celebrated. Our greatest strength lies in the rich blend of culture, talent, and experiences of our associates. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, including disability, veteran status, or other basis protected by applicable law._
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