Marketing Lead

World Fuel Services • Houston, TX

9d • Remote

About The Position

At World Kinect, our employees are the key to our global success. We are industry leaders due to the innumerable talents of our approximately 5000 strong professional team. Our people thrive in an entrepreneurial and culturally-diverse environment, where innovative thinking, collaboration and efficient execution are highly valued. Our high-performance culture is what allows us to drive sustained growth. Stronger together, we promote an environment where individuals can thrive. Marketing Lead Based : United States (home based with occasional domestic travel) Overview At World Fuel, our marketing activity is centered on driving measurable commercial performance through insight‑led planning, targeted demand generation, and close alignment with sales and commercial teams. The Marketing Lead will own marketing planning across the enterprise, translating market insight, audience understanding, and commercial priorities into coordinated, high‑impact marketing resources. This role will additionally act to support campaign management and be a dedicated strategic collaborator to the US energy management and brokerage business.

Requirements

• 5+ years of marketing experience in a similar role within an international or matrix organization.
• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related discipline.
• Proven experience leading marketing planning, audience strategy, or go‑to‑market planning in a B2B environment.
• Experience building and applying buyer personas, audience maps, and segmentation frameworks to guide marketing and sales activity.
• Demonstrated ability to work directly with commercial and sales leaders to shape priorities and influence decision‑making
• Proven experience planning, executing, and evaluating multi‑channel campaigns that deliver measurable commercial outcomes.
• Strong project management skills.
• Strong commercial acumen, comfortable with forecasting, budgeting, and understanding how marketing drives business outcomes.
• Analytically minded and confident using data to inform decisions, track metrics, and optimise performance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to simplify complex information and present clearly.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office, HubSpot, Monday.com, Salesforce.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in the energy sector or other complex B2B industries.
• Experience supporting the US market within a global marketing context.
• Experience supporting energy management, energy brokerage, commodities, or complex traded services.
• Familiarity with account‑based or solution‑led marketing approaches in the US market.

Responsibilities

• Lead integrated marketing planning for the enterprise, aligning marketing activity to revenue priorities, pipeline needs, and customer lifecycle stages.
• Develop and maintain audience maps, including buyer personas, decision‑maker roles, buying committees, and use‑case segmentation.
• Partner with marketing business partners to prioritise audiences, solutions, and sectors based on market opportunity and strategic focus.
• Represent the customer viewpoint throughout marketing planning and delivery.
• Contribute to brand positioning and ensure consistency of messaging across channels.
• Champion improvements to customer experience at key points across the buyer journey.
• Support planning, delivery, and optimization of targeted omni‑channel campaigns, ensuring high‑quality execution across digital, content, email, paid media, events, and partner channels.
• Coordinate internal production teams, external agencies, and subject matter experts to deliver campaigns on time and within budget.
• Apply project management discipline in timelines, milestones, workflows, documentation, and stakeholder updates.
• Support the creation of campaign playbooks and repeatable frameworks that improve efficiency and performance over time.
• Partner with analytics and BI teams to measure campaign performance against defined KPIs and ROI goals.
• Understand marketing technology data flows, especially points of lead capture, processing, scoring, and handoff to sales.
• Provide regular reporting, insights, and recommendations to continuously improve campaign effectiveness.
• Support the development and evolution of customer segmentations and market insights that guide future planning.
• Provide direct, hands‑on marketing support to US energy management and brokerage teams, translating commercial needs into marketing plans, campaigns, and enablement tools
• Collaborate with sales leadership to align marketing activity to pipeline coverage models, priority accounts, and regional opportunities.
• Support account‑based and solution‑led approaches for complex energy customers and broker‑driven selling environments
• Work closely with sales teams to align on lead qualification criteria, handoff points, and pipeline expectations.
• Support the development of sales enablement materials including presentations, one‑pagers, case studies, and nurture content.
• Participate in stakeholder meetings to communicate campaign plans, performance, and insights.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level