Product Marketing Manager at Sage

At Sage, Product Marketing creates and tells inspirational customer and market focused stories with cutting edge demonstrations to people around the world. We develop product messaging and positioning, go-to-market programs, and sales enablement resources while working closely with our marketing peers in the creation of compelling campaigns. We measure our success by our ability to develop creative and innovative marketing strategies, our ability to gain key buyers' mindshare and by the delivery of successful commercial results. Successful candidates will have a passion for taking the complex and making it simple, and for marketing through compelling stories.

Reporting to the Regional Product Marketing Director for AME, the Product Marketing Manager for Sage is accountable for driving the vision, messaging, awareness and creation and execution of go-to-market strategies for relevant segments across the AME in multiple sectors/industry verticals.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the industry's best product marketing team to define the positioning and go-to-market messaging and strategies in the defined segment and region.
• Create visionary and compelling internal and external customer-facing presentations.
• Own the go-to-market positioning and frameworks for the Mid-market segment and the AME region.
• Build and manage exciting, innovative product launch plans that are fully synced with business and revenue goals and ensure effective and ongoing relevancy in the market to drive demand generation and pipeline.
• Partner with a world class Product Management team to distill key functionality and benefits into core product marketing messages.
• Dream up engaging product demonstrations that are used on stage, in videos and are the basis for customer engagements in the sales and decision process.
• Confidently deliver presentations to audiences of all sizes (ranging from one person to hundreds of people).
• Develop effective sales training materials, making it easy for sales to understand our product offerings and key positioning.
• Partner with marketing to create innovative marketing campaigns, SEO, and web design to build pipeline.
• Localize all marketing materials for global solutions, including value propositions, messaging positioning, sales enablement tools and ensure local execution is consistent with global messaging.
• Work with the AME Product Marketing Director and segments Vice President to manage local forecasts, funnels and contribute to business planning and set KPIs, tracking, testing and optimizing for results in collaboration with Marketing Operations.
• Deeply understand competition in the segment and region, determining Sage’s relative positioning according to their products.
• Act as a local ambassador of Sage and business partners.
• Contribute to our global marketing charter to be the most successful marketing team on the planet by being obsessed with customers and creativity.
• Contribute to exceptional Sage content and thought leadership
• Exemplify great social marketing.
• Take responsibility for missions in the global product marketing team