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Marketing Lead roles are open to F-1 OPT students with a degree in marketing, communications, or a related business field. Most positions qualify as specialty occupations under OPT work authorization. Your 12-month OPT window (or 24-month STEM extension if eligible) gives you real runway to prove leadership impact and secure H-1B visa sponsorship.
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Location(s):
Tampa, FL, US, 33605
Orlando, FL, US
FUNCTION
Marketing
AUDIENCE
Experienced Professional
WORK ARRANGEMENT
Hybrid
REQUISITION ID
70234
The Channel Marketing Manager, Wholesale is a key leader in the continued transformation of the Doors business following acquisition and organizational change. This role helps shape future ways of working by translating strategy into execution within wholesale channel marketing, converting product and portfolio objectives into channel-ready priorities, and leading the team and partners responsible for execution. Success in this role depends on strong cross-functional influence, customer insight, disciplined operating practices, and the ability to connect channel initiatives to measurable commercial outcomes.
POSITION PURPOSE
Translate leadership direction into actionable priorities, provide coaching and oversight, and drive organizational alignment. Delegate execution to direct reports, agencies, and functional partners while maintaining accountability for quality, timing, adoption, and business results.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Channel Strategy and Performance
- Develop and lead the wholesale channel marketing strategy in alignment with Doors business, brand, product, sales, and growth priorities.
- Translate product marketing positioning and portfolio priorities into clear channel narratives, launch requirements, enablement plans, and investment decisions for distributors and dealers.
- Use market, customer, partner, and performance insights to prioritize audiences, programs, merchandising, and activation opportunities.
- Establish objectives, KPIs, and review routines that connect channel investments to partner adoption, engagement, influence, and business impact, using results to improve future plans.
- Provide strategic leadership for enterprise and wholesale programs, including dealer and partner initiatives.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Influence and align Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales, Category Management, Integrated Marketing, Digital, Customer Experience, Operations, Finance, and other cross-functional partners around channel priorities and requirements.
- Serve as the voice of the channel during commercialization and planning processes, constructively challenging assumptions to improve customer relevance and business outcomes.
- Lead agency and vendor relationships by defining strategy, scope, expectations, and performance standards while overseeing delivery and mitigating risks.
Customer and Partner Engagement
- Build strong marketing relationships with key wholesale distributors, dealers, and sales leaders to understand customer needs, buying journeys, operational realities, and opportunities for mutual growth.
- Guide "to-partner" and "through-partner" marketing strategies that help partners create demand, influence product selection, and win the sale.
- Lead the strategic development of merchandising and showroom programs that strengthen brand presence, support the customer experience, and align with commercial objectives.
- Use voice-of-customer insights and field feedback to continuously improve programs, tools, content, launches, and partner experiences.
Team Leadership and Development
- Lead, coach, and develop the Channel Marketing Specialist by establishing clear priorities, decision rights, performance expectations, and development plans.
- Build team capability and accountability while ensuring work is assigned at the appropriate level and leaders remain focused on direction, oversight, and barrier removal.
- Create clarity during organizational change and model collaborative, adaptable, and results-oriented ways of working.
Operational Excellence
- Own the wholesale channel operating rhythm, including annual planning, prioritization, budget stewardship, resource allocation, status reporting, and risk management.
- Ensure programs, campaigns, product launches, merchandising displays, and partner initiatives are delivered on time, within budget, and to agreed quality standards.
- Build and enhance repeatable processes, governance, measurement practices, and closed-loop learning that improve speed, consistency, and scalability.
- Promote clear documentation, effective decision-making, and accountability across complex cross-functional workstreams.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Progressive B2B marketing experience with demonstrated responsibility for channel strategy, partner enablement, commercialization, or integrated marketing program leadership.
- Experience leading people, developing talent, and directing work through others.
- Proven ability to influence across functions and organizational levels without direct authority.
- Strong strategic thinking and business acumen, with the ability to connect customer and channel needs to commercial priorities.
- Demonstrated project and program leadership across multiple stakeholders, priorities, budgets, and deadlines.
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and executive communication skills.
- Ability to operate with agility, sound judgment, and accountability in a changing environment.
- Willingness to travel as business and customer needs require.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience within manufacturing, building products, dealer, distributor, wholesale, or other partner-channel environments.
- Experience with merchandising, showrooms, partner programs, product launches, and "to-partner" and "through-partner" marketing.
- Experience using analytics and performance measurement to evaluate adoption, business impact, and return on marketing investment.
- Experience managing agencies, vendors, and external partners.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or comparable project management training.
WORKPLACE FLEXIBILITY
This role may be based in Tampa, FL; Toledo, OH; or a remote work-from-home arrangement, subject to business needs and company approval. The position requires effective collaboration across locations and periodic travel for customer, partner, team, and business meetings as needed.
About Owens Corning
Owens Corning is a branded building products leader with three complementary market-leading businesses providing roofing, insulation, and doors primarily for residential markets in North America and Europe. The company operates with an integrated go-to-market strategy and a unique set of OC Advantages™ – including its iconic brand, unparalleled commercial strength, leading technology, and winning cost position – to help customers win and grow in the market. Owens Corning is committed to helping build better and achieve more through winning partnerships, leading performance, and engaging people. Founded in 1938 and headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, Owens Corning is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: OC).
Owens Corning is an equal opportunity employer. Except in limited circumstances such as formal apprenticeship programs, Owens Corning does not employ anyone under the age of 18.
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LOCATION
Location(s):
Tampa, FL, US, 33605
Orlando, FL, US
FUNCTION
Marketing
AUDIENCE
Experienced Professional
WORK ARRANGEMENT
Hybrid
REQUISITION ID
70234
The Channel Marketing Manager, Wholesale is a key leader in the continued transformation of the Doors business following acquisition and organizational change. This role helps shape future ways of working by translating strategy into execution within wholesale channel marketing, converting product and portfolio objectives into channel-ready priorities, and leading the team and partners responsible for execution. Success in this role depends on strong cross-functional influence, customer insight, disciplined operating practices, and the ability to connect channel initiatives to measurable commercial outcomes.
POSITION PURPOSE
Translate leadership direction into actionable priorities, provide coaching and oversight, and drive organizational alignment. Delegate execution to direct reports, agencies, and functional partners while maintaining accountability for quality, timing, adoption, and business results.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Channel Strategy and Performance
- Develop and lead the wholesale channel marketing strategy in alignment with Doors business, brand, product, sales, and growth priorities.
- Translate product marketing positioning and portfolio priorities into clear channel narratives, launch requirements, enablement plans, and investment decisions for distributors and dealers.
- Use market, customer, partner, and performance insights to prioritize audiences, programs, merchandising, and activation opportunities.
- Establish objectives, KPIs, and review routines that connect channel investments to partner adoption, engagement, influence, and business impact, using results to improve future plans.
- Provide strategic leadership for enterprise and wholesale programs, including dealer and partner initiatives.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Influence and align Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales, Category Management, Integrated Marketing, Digital, Customer Experience, Operations, Finance, and other cross-functional partners around channel priorities and requirements.
- Serve as the voice of the channel during commercialization and planning processes, constructively challenging assumptions to improve customer relevance and business outcomes.
- Lead agency and vendor relationships by defining strategy, scope, expectations, and performance standards while overseeing delivery and mitigating risks.
Customer and Partner Engagement
- Build strong marketing relationships with key wholesale distributors, dealers, and sales leaders to understand customer needs, buying journeys, operational realities, and opportunities for mutual growth.
- Guide "to-partner" and "through-partner" marketing strategies that help partners create demand, influence product selection, and win the sale.
- Lead the strategic development of merchandising and showroom programs that strengthen brand presence, support the customer experience, and align with commercial objectives.
- Use voice-of-customer insights and field feedback to continuously improve programs, tools, content, launches, and partner experiences.
Team Leadership and Development
- Lead, coach, and develop the Channel Marketing Specialist by establishing clear priorities, decision rights, performance expectations, and development plans.
- Build team capability and accountability while ensuring work is assigned at the appropriate level and leaders remain focused on direction, oversight, and barrier removal.
- Create clarity during organizational change and model collaborative, adaptable, and results-oriented ways of working.
Operational Excellence
- Own the wholesale channel operating rhythm, including annual planning, prioritization, budget stewardship, resource allocation, status reporting, and risk management.
- Ensure programs, campaigns, product launches, merchandising displays, and partner initiatives are delivered on time, within budget, and to agreed quality standards.
- Build and enhance repeatable processes, governance, measurement practices, and closed-loop learning that improve speed, consistency, and scalability.
- Promote clear documentation, effective decision-making, and accountability across complex cross-functional workstreams.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Progressive B2B marketing experience with demonstrated responsibility for channel strategy, partner enablement, commercialization, or integrated marketing program leadership.
- Experience leading people, developing talent, and directing work through others.
- Proven ability to influence across functions and organizational levels without direct authority.
- Strong strategic thinking and business acumen, with the ability to connect customer and channel needs to commercial priorities.
- Demonstrated project and program leadership across multiple stakeholders, priorities, budgets, and deadlines.
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and executive communication skills.
- Ability to operate with agility, sound judgment, and accountability in a changing environment.
- Willingness to travel as business and customer needs require.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience within manufacturing, building products, dealer, distributor, wholesale, or other partner-channel environments.
- Experience with merchandising, showrooms, partner programs, product launches, and "to-partner" and "through-partner" marketing.
- Experience using analytics and performance measurement to evaluate adoption, business impact, and return on marketing investment.
- Experience managing agencies, vendors, and external partners.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or comparable project management training.
WORKPLACE FLEXIBILITY
This role may be based in Tampa, FL; Toledo, OH; or a remote work-from-home arrangement, subject to business needs and company approval. The position requires effective collaboration across locations and periodic travel for customer, partner, team, and business meetings as needed.
About Owens Corning
Owens Corning is a branded building products leader with three complementary market-leading businesses providing roofing, insulation, and doors primarily for residential markets in North America and Europe. The company operates with an integrated go-to-market strategy and a unique set of OC Advantages™ – including its iconic brand, unparalleled commercial strength, leading technology, and winning cost position – to help customers win and grow in the market. Owens Corning is committed to helping build better and achieve more through winning partnerships, leading performance, and engaging people. Founded in 1938 and headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, Owens Corning is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: OC).
Owens Corning is an equal opportunity employer. Except in limited circumstances such as formal apprenticeship programs, Owens Corning does not employ anyone under the age of 18.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship in Marketing Lead
Target companies with a history of H-1B sponsorship
Search OFLC disclosure data to identify which employers have filed Labor Condition Applications for marketing roles. Companies that sponsor regularly treat it as standard practice, not a special favor, making your visa conversation far less complicated.
Frame your OPT timeline as an asset, not a liability
Employers often worry about the cost and complexity of sponsorship. Lead with the fact that OPT authorization is immediate, requires no employer filing, and gives them 12 months to evaluate your performance before any sponsorship decision is required.
Demonstrate campaign ownership, not just execution
Marketing Lead roles require cross-functional coordination and measurable outcomes. Highlight specific campaigns you owned end-to-end, the channels you managed, and the metrics you moved. Ownership evidence is what separates lead candidates from coordinator candidates.
Align your degree field to the role's specialty occupation requirement
OPT work must be directly related to your degree. A marketing degree maps cleanly to Marketing Lead roles, but if your degree is in a different field, document how your coursework applies to the specific job duties before accepting any offer.
Negotiate sponsorship terms before accepting an offer
Ask directly whether the company sponsors H-1B visas and at what stage they typically file. Getting clarity before you sign prevents a situation where you invest a year building institutional knowledge at a company that won't sponsor you.
Use your STEM OPT extension window strategically if eligible
If your marketing degree qualifies as STEM under the approved program list, a 24-month extension gives you two additional H-1B lottery chances. Confirm your CIP code with your DSO early so you can plan your job search timeline accordingly.
Marketing Lead OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Marketing Lead role qualify for OPT work authorization?
Yes, in most cases. OPT requires that your job be directly related to your degree field. Marketing Lead positions typically qualify under marketing, communications, or business degrees. The role must involve duties consistent with your field of study, so review the job description carefully and document the connection before your DSO authorizes employment.
Can I work as a Marketing Lead on OPT if my degree is in a non-marketing field?
It depends on how closely your degree relates to the role's core duties. A business analytics or psychology degree can support a marketing role if the position draws on skills from that field. USCIS evaluates the connection between degree and job function, not just the degree title. Talk to your DSO before accepting an offer to confirm the relationship is defensible.
How do I find Marketing Lead jobs that are open to OPT students?
Most job postings don't advertise OPT sponsorship willingness upfront, which makes filtering difficult on general platforms. Migrate Mate is built specifically for international students and visa holders, so you can browse Marketing Lead openings from employers who are open to or experienced with OPT and visa sponsorship, without sorting through listings that will never work for your situation.
What happens to my OPT authorization if I'm promoted to a more senior marketing role mid-employment?
A promotion within the same employer and field generally does not require a new OPT authorization, as long as the work remains related to your degree. However, if the title change involves significantly different duties outside your degree field, you should consult your DSO. Document the connection between your original degree, your initial role, and the expanded responsibilities.
Do Marketing Lead roles at startups typically offer H-1B sponsorship after OPT?
Sponsorship at startups varies significantly. Early-stage companies often lack the infrastructure or budget to manage H-1B filings, while Series B and later startups increasingly handle sponsorship as a standard HR function. When evaluating opportunities, ask specifically whether the company has sponsored H-1B visas before and whether they work with an immigration attorney. That combination is the clearest signal of genuine sponsorship capacity.