Strategic Marketing Manager

Buffalo, NY (On-site)

$65K/yr – $75K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 8 days ago

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Building the annual marketing plan and revising it quarterly against business priorities
  • Owning the marketing budget end to end — allocation, pacing, reforecasting, and making the case for the investment
  • Setting priorities each quarter and keeping the team focused on them
  • Partnering with merchandising on seasonal and promotional planning, and translating category strategy into marketing execution
  • Representing marketing at the leadership level and in front of the board, in terms the business already uses
  • Negotiating vendor rates and maintaining the media kit and co-op advertising program
  • Campaign structure, audience definition, budget pacing, and optimization across Meta and Google
  • Google Business Profile management across all four locations — accuracy, posts, photography, questions and answers, and review generation
  • Setting a clear objective and success measure for every campaign before it launches
  • Weekly decisions on where to put the money behind what is working

Requirements

  • 5–8 years of progressive marketing experience, including responsibility for a budget and a plan
  • Demonstrated ownership of paid media — building, running, and optimizing campaigns directly
  • Experience reporting marketing performance to executives or ownership
  • Track record of leading or directing others
  • Strong project management, prioritization and stakeholder-management skills
  • Meta Ads Manager and Google Ads, including Performance Max and local campaigns
  • Google Business Profile, Google Analytics, and local search fundamentals
  • Email marketing platforms and list management
  • Shopify or comparable e-commerce familiarity
  • Building presentations and documents to a professional standard

Preferred

  • Experience building an in-house marketing function
  • Background bringing agency-held work onto an internal team
  • Exposure to EOS or a comparable operating framework
  • Consumer packaged goods, private label, or wholesale marketing experience
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R. Denninger Limited

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Denninger’s is a specialty grocery store with five retail locations in Hamilton, Burlington and Oakville, Ontario. We offer premium quality meats & sausages and wholesome prepared meals using family recipes since 1954. You can discover many unique imported and locally made pantry goods.Our retail stores offer a range of gift baskets, catering services and freshly prepared meals. The Bitehaus bistro serves quick and tasty German street food for dine-in or takeout.

Founded in 1954
Hamilton (Stinson / Corktown), Ontario, CAN
75 employees (6 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend

Salaries

Posted range

$65K/yr – $75K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
6 (8% of company)
Median Tenure
0.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
12.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
70.7%
Direct
8.5%
Referral
10.4%
Social
3%
Paid
4.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~75
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Strategic Marketing Manager

R. Denninger Limited · Buffalo, NY · On-site