Director, International Marketing

The Director of International Marketing serves as the strategic and operational bridge between Global Marketing functions and key international marketsChina Korea and the UK as primary focus. This leader ensures that global brand and product strategies are translated into locally relevant insight-driven market plans and activations that drive brand heat consumer connection and business results. 

This role requires a balance of strategic planning and executional rigor deep cultural understanding expertise in influencer and creator marketing and the ability to connect global functional experts with in-market teams. Experience in the athletic apparel sportswear or performance lifestyle industry is a plus.  

This role reports to VP Integrated Marketing & Brand Strategy.  

What youll get to do:

Strategic & Operational Cross Functional Marketing Leadership 

• Work with in-region marketing teams GMs & International Leadership to translate global commercial & brand strategies into actionable locally nuanced marketing plans that resonate with consumers around the world with key focus on China Korea and the UK. 
• Collaborate with HQ-based marketing functions (Integrated Brand Marketing Product Marketing Influencer PR Sports Marketing Consumer Insights Media Community Wholesale Retail & Creative) to bring the brand & channel vision to life.  
• Inform the marketing GTM to ensure key-market insights are adopted and drive locally relevant product & brand content.  
• Provide both strategic direction and operational oversight for markets at varying stages of growth ensuring plans are feasible sequenced correctly and measurable. 
• Support markets in building robust annual and seasonal marketing calendars aligned to the overall international strategy. 

Local Relevance & Consumer-Centricity 

• Partner with local teams to ensure all marketing plans and activations meet local consumer needs cultural expectations and competitive realities. 
• Partner with market teams to identify cultural moments local communities and category trends that can fuel brand and product narratives. 
• Partner with market teams to identify local insights community touchpoints and brand-building opportunities unique to each region. 

Cross-Functional & Cross-Market Alignment 

• Facilitate the flow of information assets insights and best practices between headquarters and regional teams. 
• Ensure alignment across global and local teams during planning briefing execution and post-campaign review cycles. 
• Champion the voice of the market during global planning ensuring regional realities and opportunities to inform global decision-making. 

Content Creative & Influencer Marketing Excellence 

• Collaborate with global creative and brand teams to ensure HQ based teams are thinking about local creative needs and building (where appropriate) localized assets and market-specific content. 
• Partner with global influencer teams and in-market teams to shape influencer strategies and ensure creator partnerships align with brand positioning and market goals. 
• Support markets in identifying activating and measuring influencers athletes creators and community leaders to drive relevance and reach. 
• Ensure integrated campaigns and activations are cohesive across brand product digital retail and influencer touchpoints. 

Market & Consumer Insights 

• Work with Insights teams to gather and interpret consumer cultural and category data for each priority market. 
• Distill insights into strategic recommendations that guide local content product priorities and activation strategies. 
• Leverage learnings from one market to elevate execution in others where appropriate 

Performance Process & Budget Management (Brand Marketing) 

• Co-Manage regional marketing budgets with international division ensuring investment efficiency and alignment to strategic priorities. 
• Establish KPIs for campaigns and programs in partnership with markets; track progress and adjust based on performance. 
• Strengthen global-to-local processes to improve speed clarity and executional quality across regions. 

Qualifications :

Who you are:

• Bachelors degree in Marketing Business Communications or related field; and/or equivalent years of experience preferred 
• 5 years of international marketing experience with 12 years of total experience. Exposure to China a plus 
• Experience in the athletic apparel sportswear or performance lifestyle industry is a strong plus. 
• Demonstrated ability to balance strategic thinking with strong operational execution. 
• Skilled in building culturally relevant content community activations and integrated marketing plans. 
• Proven success working cross-functionally with global creative brand digital and insights teams. 
• Exceptional communication relationship-building and influence skills. 
• Comfortable navigating different time zones cultures and organizational structures. 
• Ability to travel internationally as needed. 
• A hybrid strategist-operator who excels at moving from high-level planning to detailed execution. 
• Experience working in Asia with China as focus  
• Understands how to translate global brand best practices to startup environment    
• Passionate about consumer insight and cultural relevance. 
• Adept at harnessing global expertise to amplify market-led plans. 
• Thrives in the dynamic fast-paced environment of the athletic apparel and performance lifestyle sector. 
• A collaborative leader who builds trust with both global and local teams. 

Additional Information :

Our investment in you:

At Vuori were proud to offer the following to our employees: 

• Health Insurance 
• Savings and Retirement Plan  
• Employee Assistance Program 
• Generous Vuori Discount & Industry Perks 
• Paid Time Off  
• Wellness & Fitness benefits  

The salary range for this role is $173000 per year - $222495 per year. This role is bonus eligible

Vuori is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex gender identity sexual orientation race color religion national origin disability protected Veteran status age or any other characteristic protected by law.  

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time