Marketing Managers Salary in Charleston, SC

Common tasks

• Compile lists describing product or service offerings.
• Formulate, direct, or coordinate marketing activities or policies to promote products or services, working with advertising or promotion managers.
• Use sales forecasting or strategic planning to ensure the sale and profitability of products, lines, or services, analyzing business developments and monitoring market trends.
• Identify, develop, or evaluate marketing strategy, based on knowledge of establishment objectives, market characteristics, and cost and markup factors.
• Direct the hiring, training, or performance evaluations of marketing or sales staff and oversee their daily activities.
• Evaluate the financial aspects of product development, such as budgets, expenditures, research and development appropriations, or return-on-investment and profit-loss projections.
• Develop pricing strategies, balancing firm objectives and customer satisfaction.
• Initiate market research studies, or analyze their findings.
• Consult with product development personnel on product specifications, such as design, color, or packaging.
• Recommend modifications to products, packaging, production processes, or other characteristics to improve the environmental soundness or sustainability of products.