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Form of workABOUT KENDO
Kendo Holdings, Inc. is a San Francisco-based beauty brand developer and wholesaler owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton, the world's largest luxury group. A play on the words "can do", Kendo has become the hub of creativity and next generation beauty product development for global Sephora channels and selective retailers outside of Sephora.
Through original development, collaborations and acquisitions the Kendo stable of brands will always be creative, inspiring and innovative. A dynamic engine of speed, expertise and market-savvy, the Kendo team continues to redefine the beauty industry through great product, great storytelling, great retail and direct-to-consumer partnerships. This shows up in everything we do and in what we stand for:
- "Can Do" Spirit: We work together to make our wildest dreams a reality: As entrepreneurs, we embrace optimism and find creative ways to reach our goals
- Advocacy, Diversity, and Inclusion: We recognize and celebrate the full spectrum of personal identities. We create safe spaces so everyone's voice is heard. We listen with humility and act with courage.
- Storytelling: We tell authentic stories like no, one else. It's our key to inspire trust and build relationships, rallying, our people, partners, and consumers around our brands.
- Resilience: We embrace challenges as opportunities. Change is ever- constant, and agility is our strength.
- Product Excellence: We put the consumers first: We constantly raise the bar to create products of the highest quality that everyone just has to have.
The salary range for this position is $32.05 - $35.62 per hour based upon a San Francisco location. Offered salary is dependent upon experience and location. Kendo Total Rewards offerings also include an annual bonus and a comprehensive benefits package including: medical, dental and vision insurance, flex paid time off program, parental leave, employee discount/perks, a retirement plan with employer contributions, Summer Fridays, opportunity to work from anywhere for two weeks in the summer and July and December wellness/shutdown weeks for applicable positions.
The Kendo house of brands currently includes: Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, KVD Beauty, Lip Lab, Ole Henriksen.
Kendo Brands has a hybrid work model with three days in office and two days remote each week.
ROLE SUMMARY
This new role at Kendo is responsible for supporting the day-to-day functions of Performance Marketing efforts across the Kendo brands, focused on scalable revenue-driving and customer growth strategies through direct response tactics in Performance Marketing channels. This is a critical role in the growth of Performance Marketing & eCommerce at Kendo and is a great opportunity for someone to gain experience across multiple Performance Marketing channels. The right candidate is eager to learn and has a strong mindset around 'no task is too small.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Support all day-to-day Performance Marketing strategies & campaigns across platforms.
- Support and brief creative needs for campaigns, ad formats, and placements to creative teams and help ideate creative ideas for each campaign, ensuring clear outlines of requirements, best practices, and a platform-led mindset to drive strong brand visibility & user experience.
- Capture and facilitate receipt all needs and requirements for all activations, campaigns, and launches are received on schedule and are organized, routed for necessary approvals, and sent to agency for on-time delivery of all needs.
- Partner with agency to ensure all needs and requirements are clear and collaborate with them to align on all channel project management.
- Support project updates & timelines; support updating Performance Marketing activation plans in relevant shared calendars.
- Help ensure correct and accurate campaign set-up in platforms as aligned with goals.
- Review and QA all ad previews & placements pre-launch, ensuring everything is functioning properly and all ads look correct for the activation.
- Support auditing of publisher sites for placement launches & ongoing accuracy of brand content and merchant updates within the affiliate channel.
- Share promotion, launch, and site update information with agency & relevant partners.
- Partner with marketing, social, and creative teams to identify creative opportunities to share for Performance Marketing channels.
- Collaborate with ecommerce team to have visibility on all digital initiatives and efforts to 360 activations.
- Manage filing and processing of all invoices for on-time for financial schedule.
- Support channel and campaign reporting, pulling data from platforms, Google Analytics, etc. and compiling for review or needs.
- Admin support for technical integrations and updates as needed: pixels, audience integrations, etc.
- Ad hoc support for special projects, reports, etc.
- Keep pulse on competitors and industry insights.
- Emulate a culture of innovation, sharing ideas and identifying/vetting new growth channel opportunities to test for the Kendo brands.
REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS
- 1-3 years related digital marketing, eCommerce, and/or DTC experience via internship/work/project experience; BA/BS or Advanced Degree or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated interest in the beauty industry, ecommerce, and digital marketing a must.
- Data-driven mindset and familiarity with data analysis: experience with creating dashboards/reports and/or working knowledge of marketing analytics tools/tech (Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, etc.) a strong plus.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.
- Strong project management skills; experience with Project Management tools (i.e. Asana) a plus.
- Strong oral and written communications skills.
- Creative problem solver with sense of curiosity.
- Willingness to roll up their sleeves and dig in - "no task is too small" mentality.
- Excellent organizational skills and the ability to balance multiple deliverables simultaneously while meeting deadlines.
- Strong sense of accountability, self-drive, and the ability to function independently while also being a strong team player and cross-functional partner.
- Ability to adapt to a dynamic, fast-paced environment & comfortable with navigating through ambiguity.
