Marketing Director – India Middle East Africa Eurasia

**CURRENT EMPLOYEES, CONSULTANTS, AND AGENCY PARTNERS:** -------------------------------------------------------- If you currently work for Brown-Forman, please apply by clicking the **Careers** icon on the Workday portal. **For best results, use Google Chrome to view this page.** ---------------------------------------------------------- **Quote from Hiring Manager**  This role leads Brown-Forman’s marketing strategy and organization across India, Middle East, Africa and Türkiye/CIS. This role is responsible for driving sustainable growth, building brand equity and shaping the long-term direction of the Brown-Forman portfolio across a diverse and dynamic region.  **Meaningful Work From Day One**  As a key member of the IMAGE Leadership Team and the EAA Marketing Leadership Team, this role partners closely with regional and global stakeholders to ensure world-class marketing strategies, strong organizational capability and exceptional execution across all markets and channels.  The working style for this role is 4 days a week out of the office, with Fridays working from home. **What You Can Expect**  * **Leads Regional Portfolio Strategy:** Defines and executes the long-term portfolio and marketing strategy across the IMAGE region, aligning local brand plans, investment allocations, and growth initiative with global priorities.  * **Develops Marketing Organization & Capability:** Inspires and builds a high-performing, future-ready marketing team, fostering a culture of inclusion, accountability, agility, and continuous improvement while driving robust succession planning.  * **Drives Marketing Excellence & Innovation:** Oversees the effective execution and optimization of the full marketing mix – including brand communications, digital, advocacy, and trade marketing – while fostering an environment of innovation and calculated experimentation.  * **Partner with Global and Regional Stakeholders:** Serves as the primary marketing voice for the region to influence business priorities, working closely with cross-functional partners in Commercial, Finance, Supply Chain, and HR.   * **Navigates Complex Growth Markets:** Guides local teams through unique commercial environments, providing judicious stakeholder management and strategic direction for key expansion projects, particularly within dark markets like India and Türkiye.  * **Manages Commercial & Financial Performance:** Establishes clear performance metrics, minimizes non-working spend, and optimizes brand budget allocations to maximize corporate return on investment.  **What You Bring to the Table**  * **Senior Marketing Leadership Experience:** Extensive leadership experience steering marketing agendas within FMCG, beverage alcohol, luxury, or premium consumer goods environments.  * **International Matrix Acumen:** Proven ability to operate, influence, and challenge commercial leaders within highly matrixed, international global organizations.  * **Geographic & Route-to-Market Expertise:** Demonstrated success managing marketing execution across multiple countries or emerging markets, utilizing both distributor-led and direct-route-to-market models.  * **Strategic & Financial Credibility:** Strong commercial acumen and financial fluency, with a track record of translating consumer insights into actionable growth and managing complex brand budgets.  * **People & Agency Leadership:** Advanced capability in hiring, coaching, and developing multi-disciplinary teams alongside a track record of building impactful partnerships with external agencies.  * **Communication Skills:** Exceptional presentation and leadership communication capabilities, with absolute fluency in written and spoken English.  * **Mobility:** Willingness and flexibility to travel up to 50% of the time, including long-haul travel to developing countries.  **What Makes You Unique**  * Experience directing innovative, multi-market initiatives within strictly regulated advertising environments (“dark markets”).  * A proven personal passion for premium brand storytelling and cultivating exceptional consumer experience.  **Who We Are** We believe great people build great brands. And we know there is Nothing Better in the Market than a career at Brown-Forman. Being a part of Brown-Forman means you will grow both personally and professionally. You will have the opportunity to solve problems, seize opportunities, and generate bold ideas. You will belong to a place where teamwork matters and where you are encouraged to bring your best self to work.  **What We Offer**  Total Rewards at Brown-Forman is designed to engage our people to ensure sustainable and profitable growth for generations to come. As a premium spirits company, we offer equitable pay structures for individual and company performance alongside a premium employee experience. We offer a range of premium benefits that reflect our company values and meet the needs of our diverse workforce.  #LI #jackdaniels **Requisition Type:** Employee **Management Level:** Business Leader **Global Job Level:** B1 **Number of Openings Available:** 1