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IHG

Global hotel company

Digital Marketing Associate Manager - Digital Marketing, Japan & Micronesia

Marketing Generalist & ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeJapanNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Marketing, Digital, Communications, or a relevant field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
  • Approximately 5–8 years of relevant experience in digital marketing, CRM, owned-channel marketing, social media, e-commerce, digital content, or a related discipline.
  • Proven end-to-end delivery experience across planning, briefing, content development, platform or content setup, testing, quality assurance, launch, and performance review.
  • Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, stakeholders, and dependencies with limited day-to-day supervision.
  • Experience proactively engaging and driving internal and external stakeholders to secure inputs, decisions, and delivery.
  • Experience managing agencies, technology partners, suppliers, or other external delivery partners.
  • Experience operating in a global or regional matrix organization and supporting both local and global or regional activity.
  • Strong working knowledge of owned digital channels, including websites, email, mobile push, apps, and social platforms.
  • Working knowledge of content management systems and website processes, landing-page production, digital content setup, audience requirements, campaign tracking, and quality assurance.
  • Working knowledge of analytics and search-performance tools.
  • Working knowledge of search engine optimization and emerging AI-search practices, including how content structure, authority, relevance, and answer-oriented information can improve visibility in traditional and AI-assisted search experiences.
  • Ability to interpret performance data and translate insights into executable channel and content improvements.
  • Native-level Japanese and strong business English, with the ability to independently produce and edit publish-ready content and present in both languages.
  • Ability to independently identify and engage the internal and external stakeholders required to deliver an initiative.
  • Ability to establish clear roles, responsibilities, decision points, and deadlines across cross-functional teams.
  • Ability to drive progress through influence, structured communication, and proactive follow-up rather than relying on formal authority or continuous direction from the Senior Manager.
  • Ability to manage senior stakeholders, specialist teams, agencies, technology partners, and hotel teams.
  • Ability to translate effectively between business, marketing, creative, analytics, and technology stakeholders.
  • Ability to identify conflicting priorities or unclear ownership and facilitate practical resolution.
  • Ability to judge which matters can be resolved independently and which require escalation.
  • When escalating, provide context, business impact, options, and a clear recommendation.
  • Ability to create clear briefs, decision records, meeting outcomes, and follow-up actions.
  • Ability to identify risks, delays, quality concerns, and ownership gaps early and take action to resolve them.
  • Ability to take full ownership of Japanese and English copy and content quality, independently delivering publish-ready output without relying on review by the Senior Manager.
  • Ability to conduct and close out end-to-end quality assurance across copy, creative, localization, links, landing pages, setup, tracking, audience requirements, platform display, and customer journeys.
  • Ability to challenge incomplete briefs, unclear ownership, unsupported recommendations, and deliverables that do not meet required standards.
  • Ability to document processes, decisions, and learnings to reduce operational dependency on individual team members.

Responsibilities

  • Translate approved market, campaign, and loyalty-program priorities into actionable omnichannel plans across LINE, Instagram, IHG.com, email, mobile push, and web/app communication and merchandising.
  • Define each assigned channel's role within the customer journey, including audience, message, timing, content format, landing destination, and call to action.
  • Develop and maintain integrated channel calendars, execution plans, work-back schedules, delivery trackers, and launch-readiness documentation.
  • Personally manage or complete required content and platform setup within the assigned scope, rather than limiting involvement to coordination and status tracking.
  • Identify dependencies, required stakeholders, risks, and ownership gaps early, and independently drive timely resolution.
  • Consolidate performance results and convert findings into clear, executable improvements.
  • Manage day-to-day operation and execution of the LINE Official Account and LINE Mini App.
  • Plan and execute landing pages, banners, rich menus, messages, campaigns, and gamified experiences.
  • Coordinate content, creative assets, hotel and offer information, terms and conditions, links, tracking requirements, and other inputs required for execution.
  • Manage content and platform setup, test-environment review, journey testing, quality assurance, and production-release readiness.
  • Independently drive agencies, technology teams, internal stakeholders, and hotel teams to maintain quality and timelines.
  • Use performance and customer-behaviour data to improve content, targeting, journeys, and activation mechanics.
  • Manage the content and activation calendar for IHG Japan-owned social channels, primarily Instagram.
  • Coordinate feed posts, reels, and other assigned formats, including briefs, asset development, captions, approvals, and publishing schedules.
  • Collaborate with paid media, brand, campaign, and hotel stakeholders to support traffic-driving and broader campaign objectives.
  • Define how social channels connect customers to LINE, IHG.com, and relevant campaign experiences.
  • Manage agency deliverables and use reporting and learnings to improve content, formats, and customer journeys.
  • Manage and continuously enhance Japan-specific content and customer journeys on IHG.com, including local market pages, destination and brand content, and campaign pages.
  • Use analytics, search-performance data, and customer-search intent to identify content gaps, journey friction, and optimization opportunities.
  • Apply search engine optimization and emerging AI-search principles to content structure, titles, descriptions, internal links, and answer-oriented content.
  • Coordinate localization, agency production, stakeholder review, content setup, quality assurance, and publication.
  • Connect website content with LINE, Instagram, email, mobile push, and app journeys where relevant.
  • Work with Global and EAPAC teams to balance global platform standards with Japan-specific customer and business needs.
  • Support localization and execution of Global and EAPAC campaigns in Japan and Micronesia, including partnership campaigns.
  • Translate approved regional campaign direction into locally relevant deliverables across assigned omnichannel touchpoints.
  • Manage assigned deliverables across IHG.com, web/app merchandising, email, mobile push, LINE, and Instagram, including setup, localization, submission, testing, quality assurance, and launch readiness.
  • Proactively secure required inputs and decisions from Global, EAPAC, and Japan and Micronesia stakeholders.
  • Identify where regional plans require local adaptation and provide evidence-based recommendations.
  • Consolidate market performance, execution learnings, and recommendations for future campaigns.
  • Drive assigned initiatives independently from briefing through execution, launch, reporting, and optimization.
  • Proactively obtain inputs and drive decisions without relying on continuous direction from the Senior Manager.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in hospitality, travel, loyalty programs, retail, e-commerce, or a consumer-platform business.
  • Practical experience with LINE Official Account, LINE Mini App, or comparable messaging and mini-app ecosystems.
  • Experience with Adobe Analytics and Google Search Console.

About the Company

IHG

Global hotel company

IHG is a global hospitality company operating and franchising a portfolio of hotel brands. The company supports hotel development, reservations, loyalty programs, revenue management, brand standards, technology, and guest services. It serves travelers, hotel owners, franchisees, corporate clients, loyalty members, and hospitality partners. Its operating model centers on a primarily franchised and managed hotel network connected through brands, distribution, commercial systems, and regional support. Teams work across hotel operations, development, revenue, technology, marketing, loyalty, finance, and owner support. Teams support coordinated daily delivery.

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