Marketing Analyst - Merchandise Operations

Fort Mill, SC (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level2+ years exp

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own B2B marketing operations across dealer and internal platforms, driving adoption, reporting, and continuous improvements to assets, tools, and campaigns that support sales channels and promotions.

  • Oversee cross-functional marketing activities and Dealer Marketing Suite to ensure timely execution and tool adoption.
  • Coordinate sourcing, merchandising, asset production, and promotions across departments to maximize impact and efficiency.
  • Provide KPI-driven insights to optimize utilization, inventory, budgeting, and engagement across internal/external platforms.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Execute, communicate, and monitor B2B marketing efforts such as (product information, sales tools, dealer support, and marketing assets) across multiple internal and external platforms.
  • Help develop sourcing and merchandising strategies and execute that strategy throughout our sales and dealer network while adhering to project schedules, communication plans and managing marketing materials for promotions across multiple departments.
  • Provide monthly reporting on B2B KPIs across the full operations of the internal and external platforms to determine actionable insights on utilization, inventory, budgeting, and engagement.
  • Research and understand the industry competitive landscape and create proposals as it pertains to sales and dealer support.
  • Own day-to-day operations of Dealer Marketing Suite (digital storefront supporting our B2B channel with marketing, sales, and dealer resources) and partner cross-functionally to drive enhancements and adoption or current and future marketing tools.
  • Contribute to the development and oversee production, warehousing and fulfillment of assets for promotions, product, and other marketing materials.
  • Manage multiple vendor partners (print/production/fulfillment), including relationship management, required documentation, and spend tracking/reporting for promotions, marketing tools, and product launches.
  • Collaborate with Continental’s internal teams (product management, pricing, customer service, sales, marketing) to achieve timely completion and accurate execution of projects and strategic initiatives.
  • Identify areas of opportunity, working with sales, to improve utilization of already existing marketing tools such as salesman incentive programs, partnership marketing programs, and warranty programs.
  • Conduct research to gather valuable information regarding current and new solutions that can help Continental’s engagement with its customers, such as digital solutions, enhancements, or operational improvements that consider new market trends (Examples: QR Code utilization, mobile applications, eCommerce best practices, AI tools, etc.)

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s in marketing, sales, communications or related
  • 2+ years’ experience in partner/dealer support, marketing, or sales
  • Vendor management experience
  • Prior analytical and reporting experience
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
  • Mid-level excel skills (v-lookup, pivot reports, formulas)
  • Ability to listen and work collaboratively with team members from various customers as well as internal marketing, sales, product development and legal functions
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with a professional and polished style
  • Legal Authorization to work in the US is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas now or in the future for this job opening

Preferred

  • 5+ years of relevant professional experience in sales, marketing, or business analytics
  • Automotive Industry experience
  • Strong project management skills with attention to detail (PMP certification preferred)
  • Strong analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and make data-driven recommendations
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and a collaborative, solution-oriented approach
  • Working knowledge of print, creative work, production and fulfillment of physical merchandise, including end-to-end ordering and vendor management

Benefits

  • Immediate Benefits
  • Robust Total Rewards Package
  • Paid Time Off
  • Volunteer Time Off
  • Tuition Assistance
  • Employee Discounts, including tire discounts
  • Competitive Bonus Programs
  • Employee 401k Match
  • Diverse & Inclusive Work Environment with 20+ Employee Resource groups.
  • Hybrid Work
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Continental

Continental develops pioneering technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods. Founded in 1871, the technology company offers safe, efficient, intelligent and affordable solutions for vehicles, machines, traffic and transportation. In 2023, Continental generated sales of €41.4 billion and currently employs around 200,000 people in 56 countries and markets. - 💛 Our Netiquette 💛 -The purpose of our LinkedIn page is to offer information about products and solutions at Continental, about our company culture and about our actions and initiatives. Moreover, we would like to provide you with quick and easy contact for your questions and comments related to the above mentioned topics. We emphasize the importance of an appropriate and respectful style when communicating on our page and therefore we established the following community rules:- Please post only comments related to the topics covered by this page.- Treat each user in a respectful way, as you expect to be treated as well. Abusive language, aggression and bullying are not allowed on our page.We therefore reserve the right to remove posted comments or any other content from this site:- which is offensive or abusive,- includes a commercial benefit or unwanted advertising messages,- violates the rights of third parties as well as the right to intellectual property,- which is irrelevant or misleading- which is a spam (repeated duplicate posting)- for any other reason deemed necessary to create a helpful and respectful communityThe comments on our contributions reflect the opinion of individual users. Our LinkedIn page is frequently checked for possible violations as mentioned above. However, ongoing inspection of the content of the posted comments is not reasonable without concrete indication of a (legal) violation as mentioned above. We will immediately remove the relevant links if they are found to violate any aforementioned law or principle.

Hannover, Lower Saxony, DEU
69K employees (2,783 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
323.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
56.3%
Direct
33.6%
Referral
7.6%
Social
1.5%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~69K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2,067 (3% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2