General Motors is a leading automotive company, and they are seeking a Global Marketing Performance Lead to enhance their marketing performance across regions. The role focuses on designing and deploying scalable marketing frameworks, ensuring alignment across global teams, and leveraging data insights for measurable outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Own the design, documentation, and deployment of global performance marketing frameworks — adapting US-proven strategies (site dashboards, media measurement, creative measurement, test & learn processes) for regional market dynamics while maintaining enterprise consistency
- Lead the rollout and adoption tracking of the Global Marketing Measurement Framework across priority markets, ensuring standardized KPIs, dashboards, and reporting cadences are embedded in regional operations
- Monitor global industry trends and surface new performance opportunities, translating them into actionable guidance for regional teams
- Serve as the primary bridge between US performance capabilities (paid media, SEO, CRM, marketing intelligence, analytics, web optimization) and regional marketing teams, ensuring knowledge flows in both directions
- Partner with regional CMOs, performance marketing managers, and analytics leads to understand local market needs, identify capability gaps, and co-develop solutions that accelerate growth
- Facilitate cross-region knowledge sharing by establishing and managing forums such as global performance standups, working sessions, and Slack communities where regional teams exchange learnings and best practices
- Act as a key liaison between regional performance teams and US-based channel leads (e.g., Media, Dentsu, web platform teams) to ensure cohesive global-to-local activation
- Build and maintain the measurement and reporting architecture that provides senior leadership — including the SVP/Chief Growth Officer, Director of Global Marketing Performance, and regional CMOs — with clear line-of-sight into regional marketing performance
- Coordinate the weekly aggregation of regional performance data, contributing to executive-ready summaries that distill global metrics, wins, risks, and strategic implications
- Develop compelling, simple executive presentations that synthesize cross-regional insights into a coherent global performance narrative, supporting leadership decision-making
- Collaborate with the US Test & Learn team and regional leads to design cross-channel experimentation frameworks that can be adopted across markets
- Facilitate the identification, prioritization, and scaling of test-and-learn initiatives globally, ensuring insights from one region are shared and replicated where applicable
- Track, analyze, and communicate key learnings across markets to inform future global marketing strategies and accelerate speed-to-market of proven tactics
- Contribute to the strategic direction of the Global Marketing Performance function, proposing initiatives and delivering solutions that drive cross-team and cross-regional impact
- Lead the planning and content coordination for key enablement moments, including the annual Global Marketing Summit, ensuring sessions drive actionable outcomes and measurable follow-through
- Serve as a mentor to more junior team members, providing coaching and guidance on global operations, stakeholder management, and performance marketing fundamentals
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement by systematically capturing learnings, building feedback loops, and evolving processes based on regional input and performance data
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of marketing, marketing strategy, agency, or management consulting experience, with a strong focus on performance marketing, data analytics, campaign optimization, or marketing enablement; global or multi-market experience strongly preferred
- 1-2 years crafting compelling, simple, executive-ready strategy decks and performance summaries; strong level of comfort with PowerPoint
- High level of proficiency in Excel, data visualization tools (e.g., PowerBI, Tableau), and marketing analytics platforms (e.g., Google Analytics, Google Ads, CRM platforms); high comfort level with data
- Demonstrated experience translating complex, multi-market data into clear strategic narratives for senior leadership
- Strong organizational and analytical skills, creative problem-solving, and attention to detail — with the ability to manage multiple workstreams across time zones simultaneously
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a knack for simplifying complex ideas for diverse, multicultural audiences
- Proven ability to influence without direct authority — building trust and alignment across regions, capabilities, and leadership levels
- Cultural awareness and sensitivity; experience working across geographies and with diverse teams is highly valued
- Comfort with ambiguity and a self-starter mindset; ability to shift gears and serve as an agent for change in a fast-evolving global organization
- Experience in the automotive industry or within a large, matrixed global marketing organization
- Hands-on experience with marketing technology platforms (CDPs, ad platforms, analytics suites, creative tools)
- Familiarity with AI-enabled marketing tools and a track record of driving technology adoption across teams