A marketing manager is a person within a company who supervises and helps create the various advertising or merchandising sales campaigns the business uses to sell itself and its products. A marketing manager can be assigned to a single product, a product line, a brand, or the entire company. The manager typically must incorporate a variety of input from creative, research, advertising, and sales teams.
A marketing manager typically oversees one or more marketing campaigns. The manager may devise the entirety of the campaign. However, he or she will typically see a generalized opportunity and then enlist various members of his or her marketing team to brainstorm campaign ideas. Normally, a marketing campaign will also require market research to determine the various product appeal to various demographic groups.
One of the key skills a marketing manager must possess is organization. Even small changes or iterations on existing marketing campaigns can require a great deal of coordination and timing precision. Marketing managers typically must orchestrate that across multiple groups and teams within the company. Most marketing managers will be required to have a marketing degree from a university, with management disciplines and postgraduate work favored. Marketing managers typically work regular hours during the work week, but they should expect to put in longer days when launching new campaigns.