Vice President of Strategic Marketing

Minneapolis, MN (On-site)

$200K/yr – $275K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the transformation and execution of Viking Electric's integrated marketing and digital sales strategy, driving brand positioning, customer engagement, demand generation, and enterprise sales enablement across omnichannel experiences.

  • Lead marketing and digital sales organizations to grow customer adoption and market presence.
  • Partner with Sales and Sonepar teams on customer experience and journey optimization.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute a solutions-based marketing strategy spanning brand positioning, customer engagement, customer acquisition, demand generation, market awareness, and measurement of marketing effectiveness.
  • Lead Digital Sales strategy and performance, including eCommerce, digital customer engagement, online growth initiatives, customer adoption, and omnichannel customer experience capabilities.
  • Provide leadership for Sales Support and commercial enablement, ensuring sales teams have the tools, resources, insights, training support, and processes needed to improve customer growth and productivity.
  • Partner with Sales to optimize Viking Electric’s enterprise customer experience strategy using voice-of-customer insights, customer journey analysis, digital capabilities, and cross-functional process improvement.
  • Establish customer segmentation, market intelligence, competitive analysis, and customer insight processes to identify growth opportunities and influence business strategy.
  • Build and develop a high-performing Strategic Marketing organization and contribute to enterprise strategy, transformation, annual planning, talent development, and collaboration with Sonepar Marketing and Digital teams.
  • Perform assigned duties professionally and ethically while following Viking Electric policies, guidelines, and procedures, including Safety, Anti-Harassment, and Ethics.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 10 years of progressive leadership experience in marketing, digital commerce, sales enablement, customer experience, commercial leadership, or related business functions.
  • Proven success developing and executing growth strategies in complex business environments.
  • Experience leading digital transformation, customer engagement, organizational change, and process improvement initiatives.
  • Demonstrated success building and leading high-performing teams.
  • Strong strategic planning, commercial acumen, financial acumen, and data-driven decision-making skills.
  • Expertise in marketing strategy, digital commerce, customer experience, and commercial enablement.
  • Exceptional communication, presentation, influencing, and cross-functional leadership skills.
  • Ability to translate market intelligence and customer insights into business strategy and customer-focused solutions.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Communications, Sales, or a related field.
  • - Ability to travel to Viking Electric, customer, supplier, Sonepar, and industry locations as needed, up to 25% of the time.

Preferred

  • Experience in distribution, wholesale, industrial, manufacturing, or the electrical industry.

Benefits

  • Healthcare plans
  • Dental & vision
  • Paid time off
  • Paid parental leave
  • 401(k) retirement savings with company match
  • Professional and personal development programs
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Opportunity to become a shareholder
  • Employer-paid short- and long-term disability
  • Employer-paid life insurance for spouse and dependents
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Viking Electric

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Viking Electric was founded in 1964 in St. Paul, Minnesota as a family-owned electrical distributor. Viking Electric opened with 7,000 square feet of warehouse space with a mission to be a leader in the electrical distribution industry; and provide quality products, services and solutions. Today, we have grown to 24 locations across Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Chicago, Illinois with 450,000+ square feet of warehouse space and 30,000 inventory items from more than 400 stock manufacturers. Company-wide, Viking Electric has a fleet of 75 delivery trucks that travel more than 3.3 million miles and deliver more than 500,000 orders annually. It is our vision to be the indispensable electrical supply chain partner central to our customers' success.Viking Electric’s customers include residential and commercial contractors, as well as the industrial sector. To better serve our customers, Viking Electric employs product specialists who provide technical expertise in the areas of automation, datacom, eBusiness solutions, lighting, switchgear, and tools and safety. In addition to being a leader in the electrical distribution industry, Viking Electric provides planning and coordination services, repackaging and kitting, staging and storage, logistics and delivery, 24-hour emergency services, as well as real time reporting and technical support. Viking Electric is owned by Sonepar, an independent family-owned company and global market leader in the distribution of electrical products, solutions and related services. Sonepar’s reach includes 2,800 locations and 245 operating companies - in 44 countries, on five continents.

Founded in 1964
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
655 employees (17 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend
1% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$200K/yr – $275K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
17 (3% of company)
Median Tenure
14.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
21.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$609
Traffic Source Mix
Search
63.2%
Direct
36.4%
Social
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~655
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Vice President of Strategic Marketing

Viking Electric · Minneapolis, MN · On-site