Product Marketing Specialist

Location

Portland, OR (Hybrid)

Position Type: Full-Time Contract

Compensation Range: $30 - 33 per hour

We are seeking a high-energy Product Marketing Specialist to join the Brand Communications team for one of the world's leading athletic footwear and apparel brands. In this role, you will help shape and execute product marketing campaigns across key sports initiatives and performance categories-with a heavy emphasis on the grassroots soccer ecosystem and youth sports culture.

Collaborating closely with global and local brand communications, digital, retail, newsroom, and creative production teams, you will be instrumental in bringing cohesive, multi-channel marketing campaigns and event activations to life.

Responsibilities:

• Campaign Execution & Delivery: Partner directly with the Communications Lead to guide end-to-end campaign execution, coordinating deliverables and assets across internal creative squads and external agency partners.
• Multi-Channel Collaboration: Support joint activations alongside Brand Experience, Trade Marketing, Retail, and Digital teams to ensure integrated, on-brand storytelling across all consumer touchpoints.
• Project & Timeline Management: Manage comprehensive project timelines, track cross-functional deliverables, and maintain active status reports to keep multi-stakeholder workstreams moving on schedule.
• Consumer & Community Insights: Act as the voice of the athlete/consumer, bringing deep knowledge of youth culture and the grassroots soccer landscape into early-stage campaign development and brainstorming.
• Seeding & Promotional Logistics: Oversee product and promotional ordering, tracking, and fulfillment for athlete seeding programs, grassroots activations, and PR initiatives.
• Presentations & Briefings: Build polished PowerPoint decks and multimedia presentations for internal alignment, sell-in meetings, and external briefing sessions.
• Performance Recaps & Analytics: Help synthesize post-campaign analytics and KPI reporting into clear executive summaries to evaluate communication reach and ROI.

Qualifications:

• Experience: Minimum of 2+ years of hands-on marketing, brand communications, or advertising experience (digital marketing or athletic retail background strongly preferred).
• Grassroots Sports Passion: Strong personal or professional understanding of the grassroots soccer ecosystem, youth sports clubs, and youth athletic culture.
• Project Management Skills: Proven track record managing competing deadlines, multiple projects, and cross-functional deliverables with strong attention to detail.
• Communication & Relationship Building: Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with confidence presenting ideas and collaborating across agency partners, creative directors, and corporate stakeholders.
• Technical Skills: High proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (expert-level PowerPoint and intermediate-to-advanced Excel for tracking/status reports).

Education

Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Advertising, Communications, or a related field (or an equivalent combination of education and hands-on professional experience). *

JOBID: 102026-166263

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At Cella, a randstad digital company, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact [email protected].

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Cella by randstad digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.

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