Vice President Marketing

Downers Grove, IL (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive Sentinel’s marketing strategy and execution at the VP level to generate pipeline and revenue growth.

  • Own end-to-end marketing strategy, demand generation, and revenue attribution.
  • Must-have: 10+ years in B2B marketing with senior leadership experience.
  • Standout: Experience aligning branding, website, collateral, and M&A marketing for growth.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • The successful Vice President of Marketing will: Build a sophisticated, comprehensive marketing strategy from the ground up.
  • Create the process and programs and implement the appropriate infrastructure and technology to support pipeline generation, sales enable and scalable growth.
  • Enable marketing to serve as a meaningful driver of pipeline growth and sales productivity.
  • Support Sentinel in demonstrating a more refined market messaging and higher-quality commercial materials.
  • Expand Sentinel’s digital and demand generation capabilities in ways that are measurable, practical, and aligned with the company’s growth priorities
  • Provide Leadership with increased visibility into marketing’s contribution to overall performance.
  • Digital Marketing & Demand Generation: Develop and execute digital marketing strategies to support business development, pipeline growth, and account expansion.
  • Oversee programs including: Email marketing and campaigns
  • Search engine optimization (SEO) and search marketing

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business administration, or related field required. An MBA or advanced degree is a plus.
  • Minimum of 10 years of progressive marketing experience, including at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.
  • Proven experience building or significantly expanding marketing capabilities in a growth-oriented B2B business, ideally in the managed service provider, IT, or SaaS industries.
  • Experience working effectively in a sales-led, entrepreneurial environment.
  • Strong track record in demand generation, sales enablement, and marketing analytics.
  • Comfortable operating as both a strategic leader and hands-on builder: A leader with the ability to inspire and motivate a team, as well as execute the work itself.
  • Strong understanding of digital marketing strategies, tools, and platforms.
  • Experience managing a large marketing budget and achieving measurable results.
  • Exceptional leadership, team building, and people-management skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred

  • An MBA or advanced degree is a plus.
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Sentinel Technologies

3.6 Glassdoor

When it comes to achieving a tangible ROI and sustainable performance from your IT environment, Sentinel takes the lead. Even as our services have spanned generations of technology, Sentinel has stayed at the forefront of IT developments and maintained a singular focus on providing practical and innovative solutions. With single-source accountability, Sentinel processes and teams can efficiently address a range of IT needs – from communications, to data center, to cloud and managed services. Our proven success has allowed us to expand from our original charter of providing technology maintenance services to our current standing as one of the leading IT services and solutions provider in the U.S. By aligning with many of today’s global technology leaders including Cisco, Microsoft, Dell EMC, NetApp and VMware, Sentinel solutions achieve tangible results.Sentinel services customers both nationally and internationally with operating centers in Downers Grove, IL; Chicago, IL; Springfield, IL; Detroit, MI; Grand Rapids, MI; Lansing, MI; Milwaukee, WI; Phoenix, AZ; and Denver, CO. Since 1982, opportunities at Sentinel have been created by achieving consistent growth in our core business coupled with expanded geographic reach and the rapid adoption of cutting edge technology. Our commitment to our employees has remained consistent through the years-to create a work environment that encourages creativity, an entrepreneurial spirit, fosters growth through certification and hands-on training, and rewards success! Ranked #7 in the Chicago Tribune Top 100 workplaces, midsize business category.

Founded in 1982
Downers Grove, Illinois, USA
779 employees (14 in marketing)
61% recommend to a friend
75% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
10.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.6%
Direct
45.9%
Referral
7.7%
Social
7.6%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~779

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
8 (1% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$400K
Last Raise
$400K
Series Unknown, 17 years ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2009
    Series Unknown • $400K