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Global Marketing & Communications Executive | B2B & B2C | Driving Brand Strategy & Revenue Growth | Leadership in Matrixed Organizations | Sustainability Advocate | Strategic Market Insights | Agency Leader

Marketing can add value to a company in many ways. Driving growth through customer partnerships is just one of them. Marketing can help a business drive profit and growth by creating value for its products and services. For example, value-added marketing can build strong customer relationships by providing additional value beyond the product or service. This can lead to increased customer satisfaction and retention, as well as positive word-of-mouth referrals that can help attract new customers. While at ExxonMobil we were tasked with changing dynamics in the Automotive market, forcing marketing to reconsider the approach we took to conducting business with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). Increasingly, limited product differentiation in this market was leading to OEMs treating motor oil as a commodity product, pushing their own brand genuine oils and impacting negatively on the share and visibility of Mobil branded products. OEMs were taking firmer control over the oil supply in their dealer channels and as a result, were seeing significant growth in the strength of their own branded product. Historically ExxonMobil worked closely with OEMs but in recent years retention of existing business had become even more of a challenge. There was a need to deepen the relationships and build a more collaborative and compelling consumer offer. At a global level, we were seeing new mega trends emerge in areas such as vehicle ownership, urbanization, connectivity, electrification and autonomous driving, and stricter rules on fuel economy and emissions. All of this led to lesser consumer or customer involvement and greater OEM control of oil brand and product type decisions in dealerships and the aftermarket. OEMs were looking for support to help keep consumers within the franchise and generate deeper loyalty and incremental service revenues over their lifetime. That is where we came in to add value through marketing by co-branding which took the strength of our brand alongside the OEM to attract more customers and business to drive revenue for both companies. I’ve included an example of our co-branding approach and the process we developed that led to success. #drivingmarketingvalue #cobranding

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