Director of Marketing, Ann Sacks

Work Mode: Onsite

Location: Onsite, four days per week - Portland, OR

Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced senior Marketing leader at Ann Sacks. Come join an established luxury brand, filled with creativity and heart!

About Ann Sacks
For over four decades, Ann Sacks has become synonymous with unparalleled craftsmanship and innovation in the world of tile and stone. From humble beginnings in Portland, what began as a simple venture into tiles now includes slabs, stone furniture, fireplaces and more. From our support office, to manufacturing and showrooms, we have a small business feel with a big footprint across North America. Our teams take pride in their work, bringing timeless design, beauty, and luxury to each product, project, and client experience.

Position Overview

The Director of Marketing at Ann Sacks is the driving force behind the brand’s creative vision and strategic growth, entrusted with shaping its identity and elevating its presence across a distinguished product portfolio. This role is pivotal in orchestrating a seamless and elevated brand experience through communications, public relations, social media, and digital platforms.

This is an integrated marketing leadership role, responsible for aligning all marketing channels and touchpoints to deliver a unified, consistent, and compelling brand narrative. From strategy to execution, this role ensures that every message, campaign, and customer interaction reflects the artistry, innovation, and timeless elegance that define Ann Sacks.

The ideal candidate brings a sophisticated understanding of design and cultural trends, a sharp product sensibility, and the ability to unify cross-functional teams around a cohesive, brand-right strategy. With both creative insight and strategic acumen, this leader will shape the future of the Ann Sacks brand with clarity, consistency, and distinction.

Specific Responsibilities

Market Insights

• Develop and maintain an expert understanding of the needs of existing and target customers, including end-use consumers, architects and interior designers.
• Develop and maintain an understanding of the competitive landscape, including competitor strengths, weaknesses and product assortment details.

Direct Brand Creative Content

• Ensure cohesive brand strategy and execution in all aspects of marketing function.

Digital & Ecommerce

• Oversees the Ann Sacks catalogue website.
• Key owner and strategist for the implementation of ecommerce platform.
• Owns digital strategy, including digital merchandising and promotion.

Marketing Communications

• Manage the annual marketing planning process, focusing on key product strategies for all channels including showrooms, dealers, outside sales, projects etc. Develop and communicate plans annually, while managing dynamically to respond to business conditions.
• Achieve objectives for brand awareness, brand preference, website traffic, and showroom and store traffic.
• Direct all marketing communications functions including:
  • Advertising
  • Development of content including photography and video
  • Development and distribution of literature
  • Public Relations and events
  • Digital marketing, including company website, digital merchandising and promotion, mobile marketing, e-mail marketing, search marketing, social media marketing and e-commerce
• Manage outside marketing and creative agency relationships, and ensure superior, brand-appropriate content and assets.
• Manage the annual budgeting process and optimize marketing mix with analytical rigor. Monitor expenditure to spend within plan parameters.

Leadership & Talent Development

• Develop the Marketing team by overseeing the selection, promotion and development of people who embody the marketing skills and long-term potential to contribute to business success.
• Drive associate engagement within the Ann Sacks Marketing functions to improve individual leader and business performance.
• Business leader and member of the Ann Sacks leadership team, providing advice and counsel on major issues facing the business. Develop collaborative working relationships across Luxury Brands and Kohler Marketing.

Skills/Requirements

• Minimum of ten (10) years of relevant experience in a multi-channel environment with demonstrated accomplishments and progressive responsibilities required.
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing or related field preferred but not required. Relevant job experience and training may be substituted. Candidates with a variety of educational backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
• Prior experience leading a team is required.
• Balanced experience with media, public relations, traditional and digital marketing strategies and techniques required.
• Experience with administration and execution of electronic direct marketing campaigns, including database management and analytics is strongly preferred.
• Experience with luxury consumer goods with multiple channels of distribution strongly preferred.
• Hands-on capability with creative platforms such as Adobe strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of CRM systems and best practices also preferred.
• Up to 15% travel required.

Other Key Skills

• Positive, proactive self-starter with ability to drive multiple projects to successful and timely completion while ensuring accuracy and integrity of outputs.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including presentation delivery.
• Strong organizational and planning skills, ability to prioritize effectively, manage time well, and balance short- and long-term deliverables.
• Demonstrated ability to lead or effectively work within multi-functional teams in a matrixed environment.
• Excellent relationship building and influencing skills.
• Proven ability to attract, develop and empower top talent to innovate and drive growth.

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Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

We believe in supporting you from the moment you join us, which is why Kohler offers day 1 benefits. This means you’ll have access to your applicable benefit programs from your first day on the job, with no waiting period. The salary range for this position is $148,850 - $233,950. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate’s experience, their education, and the work location. In addition, this position is eligible for a performance bonus/variable incentive compensation.

Why Choose Kohler?
We empower each associate to #BecomeMoreAtKohler with a competitive total rewards package to support your health and wellbeing, access to career growth and development opportunities, a diverse and inclusive workplace, and a strong culture of innovation. With more than 30,000 bold leaders across the globe, we’re driving meaningful change in our mission to help people live gracious, healthy, and sustainable lives.

About Us
It is Kohler’s policy to recruit, hire, and promote qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran. If, as an individual with a disability, you need reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact kohlerjobs@kohler.com. Kohler Co. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.