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Director of Marketing Communications

PHILLIP HUGHES

Work experience

Director of Marketing Communications

2014-08Present
Universal Exports
  • Developing, maintaining, and executing an ongoing strategic communications plan.
  • Creating over $1 million in new opportunities in a single quarter.
  • Managing the budget of over $1 million; staff of 5 employees; numerous targeted global business relationships.
  • Ensuring all communications programs align with the company’s overall strategic business goals.
  • Ensuring consistency of brand positioning by managing messages and by closely integrating related communications activities.
  • Responsible for development and execution of content marketing strategy and planning.
  • Managing the flow of content marketing projects from conception through execution including; lead generation and nurturing content (like white papers/eBooks), public relations and press releases, product overviews, webinars, email marketing, case studies, videos, newsletters, websites, and social media.
  • Tracking and measuring content marketing performance.

Director, Corporate Marketing Communications

2010-042014-07
Merkle
  • Launched the global brand program, regained favorable interbrand rating.
  • Developed new creative and messaging to effectively re-position the company.
  • Delivered $1M in savings via global infrastructure for communications tools & resources.
  • Reduced museum & archives cost by 30% while improving service to internal customers.
  • Delivered 20% increase in revenue from key accounts.
  • Reduced packaging expenses by 23% globally while improving the effectiveness.
  • Led new product launches for digital phones and other PCS devices.
  • Cut 20% of promotional program expense while improving fill rates and decreasing inventory.

Marketing Communications Manager

2007-122010-03
Sid Lee
  • Responsible for all advertised planning and execution - both print and online.
  • Managed advertising budget.
  • Project Manager for annual user conference included over 600 customers, 50 speakers, and 30 vendors.
  • Responsible for collateral development included brochures, case studies and white papers, and email marketing.
  • Developed video product demonstrations.
  • Implemented a lead nurturing program and closed-loop inbound marketing solution for tracking and measuring performance.
  • Migrated website over to a content management system.
  • Extended international website reached by adding the German accessibility.

Education

Master of Business Administration

20042006
University of Notre Dame