mark ward: in greensboro, CA
mark ward
greensboro | United States
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Director, Digital Marketing and Creative | 11/2013 - 10/2014
• Digital (social), website and mobile marketing leadership
• Mentor and motivation staff and agencies
• Create marketing vision, strategy and roadmaps
• Collaborate with cross functional teams (Executive, IT, Sales, CS and Marketing)
• Oversee paid search, SEO, email, social media, display ads and retargeting efforts
• Provide customer insight and data segmentation
• Oversee web merchandizing for 80 brands
• Work with external agencies and freelancers to accomplishment company goals
• Lead customer acquisition and retention efforts
• Oversee CX, UI, metric reports, A/B testing and customer feedback
• Report on KPIs for website and sales performance to sr. management
• Oversee creative direction and brand guidelines
• Manage a team of designers and developers
• Manage digital marketing budget allocation and reporting
Market America, Inc. + SHOP.COM
Director of Marketing | 04/2012 - 09/2013
• Global digital (social), print, ecommerce, website and mobile marketing leadership
• Mentor and motivation staff of 60+ and in-house agency
• Lead marketing initiatives across owned, earned and paid media
• Oversee global corporate branding and marketing to over 3 million customers and 180,000
distributors in US, Canada, Mexico, UK, Australia, Hong Kong and Taiwan
• Drive B2B and B2C customer acquisition through multi-channels (digital and traditional)
• Coordinate public relations and celebrity marketing efforts
• Direct and coaches 60 staff members (Marketing and Creative)
• Manage all corporate marketing communications and branding strategies
• Create marketing campaigns to effectively promote brands, categorie, and products
• Collaborate with brand managers, technology group and creative department to build
strategic creative briefs and marketing plans
• Create and maintain global marketing plans and calendars
• Manage cross functional teams including product manager
Pharm Direct + America Direct Mail
Sr. Exec VP Direct Marketing | 12/1998 - 03/2012
• Develop and execute targeted healthcare branding, patient acquisition & ecommerce
marketing campaigns
• Launched new pharma products and services using a physician network
• Collaborate with design team to develop creative test strategies for both online
and offline direct marketing programs
• Collect and analyze campaign data to assess effectiveness and recommend adjustments
• Maintain marketing budgets and negotiate cost of goods with vendors
• Handle vendor relationships for online professional databases, email
databases, email broadcast services, direct mail, printing, graphic design and more
• Generate weekly forecasts and track KPI performance and success metrics of
online and direct marketing campaigns
• In-charge of large Pharma Accounts such as Boston Scientific, Amgen,
Genentech, Pfizer, Covidien, Healthnet, Roche and more
Education history
santa monica college
aa | 1986 - 1988
ucla
none | 1988 - 1991
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