Executive Manager, Marketing Strategy

Overview

This is a senior individual contributor role sitting at the heart of The Kallang Group's Brand, Marketing & Communications team. You will work closely and directly with the Group Head of Brand, Marketing & Communications, translating strategic direction into rigorous plans, sharp recommendations, and effective execution across marketing strategy, budget optimisation, and special projects.

We are looking for someone who is able to confidently take a clear brief and run with it, able to bring structure and simplicity to complexity, and consistently delivers work that is both strategically grounded and practically executable.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Planning

• Support the development and execution of integrated marketing strategies aligned to commercial and brand objectives.
• Assist in annual and mid-year planning cycles, synthesising inputs, stress-testing assumptions, and preparing materials for senior alignment
• Research and surface growth opportunities across audience segments, partnerships, and emerging channels
• Turn strategic priorities into clear, actionable roadmaps that teams can run with

Budget Optimisation

• Track and manage the marketing budget, ensuring spend is purposeful and performance-driven
• Build frameworks and reporting to evaluate ROI across brand, CRM, social, and performance marketing
• Coordinate with finance and business units to ensure expenditure stays aligned to approved targets

Special Projects

• Lead and incubate discrete strategic marketing and growth initiatives
• Prepare briefs, presentations, and recommendations that enable fast, well-informed decisions at the senior level
• Drive cross-functional coordination and stakeholder follow-through on complex, time-sensitive projects

Leadership Expectations

• Strong ability to influence, able to align teams, agencies, and senior stakeholders through credibility and clarity rather than hierarchy.
• Manages up and across effectively, comfortable engaging C-suite stakeholders and navigating organisational dynamics with maturity and discretion.
• Communicates with precision, translates complexity into clear recommendations, whether in a deck, a brief, or a room.
• Brings calm to ambiguity, takes unclear or fast-moving situations and creates structure, momentum, and direction.
• Earns trust quickly, builds strong working relationships across functions and levels, and is relied upon to deliver.

Requirements:

• Minimum 12 years of marketing experience, with a track record in both strategy, planning and execution.
• Relevant experience and expertise across brand, customer insights, social, CRM and performance marketing.
• Strong commercial mindset; understands how marketing connects to revenue, audience growth, and long-term brand equity.
• Sharp problem-solving instincts, moves quickly from diagnosis to recommendation to action.
• Experience in live entertainment, sports, hospitality, or experience-economy sectors is an advantage.

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Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

The level of appointment will depend on the qualifications and experience of the candidate.

For more information on The Kallang Group, refer to www.thekallanggroup.com.sg