Marketing Specialist – Shopper/Customer Marketing Focus

Marketing Specialist

6-7 months contract ; Remote position

Full time ; 40 hrs a week

***Focus on experience with customer or shopper marketing rather than brand marketing

Remote position - Can work anywhere in the U.S.

Assignment will most likely not be extended into the new year

Supporting Scott Shop Towels

Responsibilities:

· Partner with sales team members to deliver against brand/business objectives across Mass, Club, Automotive customers, including leading marketing and promotion planning & execution.

· Lead/participate in key customer planning meetings, presentations, tradeshows, and training. Budget management and assisting with marketing plans, developing collateral (flyers, etc)

· Manage trade budgets for Mass, Club, Automotive

· Travel up to 10%. - potentially 1 trip during assignment

Qualifications:

· 2+ years of related experience in marketing (Retail marketing experience preferred)

· Strong analytical, project, time management, collaboration, and communication skills essential.

· Able to work in a matrix organization driving collaboration across functions and businesses.

· Must be able to function in an independent fashion, owning responsibility by driving decisions and possessing a high degree of accountability.

Preferred Qualifications:

· Experience with retail customer marketing and brand marketing (++)

· Experience with the Home Professional business (+++)

Design, create, and deliver marketing programs to support expansion and growth of the company services and products. Their role requires creating sales presentations and providing reports according to the information gathered such as new products, market trends, competition, and pricing. Familiar with a wide range of field's practices, concepts, and procedures, marketing specialists rely on judgment in planning, experience to accomplish their goals.