Marketing Specialist

White Bear Lake, MN (On-site)

$60K/yr – $65K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Summary

Own and drive Marketing initiatives by identifying key levers to hit sales, growth, and profit objectives while leading customer insights and cross-functional program execution.

  • Define and oversee cross-functional programs with clear ownership of growth levers and profitability.
  • Lead customer research and multi-channel program execution to inform strategy and messaging.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the Director of Marketing by establishing sales, growth, and profit objectives through identification of key levers to drive results within assigned programs. Develops Sales, Marketing, and Strategic Program initiatives.
  • Lead customer understanding initiatives by researching target market segments by demographics and/or characteristics through primary and secondary research. Including but not limited to recurring customer surveys, focus groups, attending relevant customer events, and tradeshows.
  • Engage in direct interaction with our customers and end users to anticipate changes in needs and identify solutions which may include new product extensions and categories, New Markets, New Campaigns and Channels, etc.
  • Lead competitor intelligence initiatives by identifying key competitors and collecting catalogs and other campaign materials, monitoring promotions, and reviewing other competitive information. Know your competitors - their strategy and their positioning.
  • Communicate details of multi-channel marketing programs to sales reps, customer service, operations, and other departments involved with taking and fulfilling orders and campaigns.
  • Determine and recommend overall pricing, promotion, and positioning strategy across channels within assigned markets to meet program objectives.
  • Analyze results and develop strategies.
  • Complete sales reporting, analytics and finance related tasks, including budgeting and forecasting.
  • Develop an understanding of the P&L, sales strategies, systems, reporting and the internal processes.
  • Define and assist in execution of sales collateral materials and tools used by our sales reps to effectively prospect and secure new business.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in related field
  • 2+ years of marketing experience
  • Strong analytical skills in order to evaluate opportunities as well as to evaluate effectiveness of programs and determine go forward plan
  • Experience in Customer Contact Plans, New Business Development and Customer Research
  • Strategic, driven, adaptable, and quick learner
  • Ability to work independently as well as across many different functional areas
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced and changing environment, and manage several tasks / projects at one time
  • Strong prioritization skills
  • Motivated team player with a high level of accountability and drive
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Taylor Corporation

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Taylor provides a diverse set of products, services and technologies to power the potential of the world’s leading brands. Using the latest printed and digital methods, we facilitate marketing communications of all types for businesses and consumers across a wide range of industries. You’ll see our solutions in your mailbox, your email inbox, in retail settings and on your mobile device.Driven by Glen Taylor’s unwavering entrepreneurial spirit, Taylor Corporation has grown from a single small business in 1975 to one of the nation’s largest privately held companies today. What started as a humble printer of wedding invitations and business cards is now a highly diversified leader in the field of business communications. However, while Taylor's capabilities have changed dramatically in the last 45 years, our core purpose remains the same ― to create opportunity and security for our employees.Taylor also continuously invests in technologies and production methods that enable us to shrink our environmental footprint. This commitment shows in the way we divert tons of waste to energy production, source responsibly harvested forest products and work to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions year over year. The result is a culture of sustainability that guides our decision making and ensures that we take the long-term view in everything we do.

Founded in 1975
Mankato, Minnesota, USA
7K employees (664 in marketing)
59% recommend to a friend
100% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$60K/yr – $65K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
395 (6% of company)
Median Tenure
7.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
61K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$114.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
48.2%
Direct
44.8%
Referral
5.1%
Social
0.9%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~7K

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