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WESCO Marketing Manager (Safety) in Glenview, Illinois
The Marketing Manager (Safety) is responsible for developing, implementing, executing, and measuring strategic marketing plans, demonstrating a clear understanding of people and how to build awareness about Wesco’s safety products, services, and solutions to satisfy their needs. The ideal candidate will be comfortable with day-to-day marketing activities as well as contributing to the long-term strategy while focusing on meeting deadlines and being responsive to changing business needs.
Responsibilities:
Develop marketing programs to support the Safety Commercial Team, spanning customer engagement, sales enablement, market awareness, lead generation and market intelligence.
Implement marketing plans and manage associated marketing activities.
Design marketing campaigns in collaboration with other marketing and business leaders, including evaluation of marketing plans and development of strategies to respond to changing market and competitive conditions.
Understand and interpret customer and sales data to identify opportunities in market and drive sales growth.
Recommend methods for developing existing or related markets and expanding into new ones.
Keep informed of new marketing approaches and products, services, and solutions offered by competitors.
Utilize Wesco’s project management system to ensure timely execution of projects and role clarity of creative department.
Ensure scheduled programs are completed on time and on budget and communicate results, best practices, and successes.
Contribute to driving profitable growth of targeted businesses by consistently ensuring that marketing programs remain aligned with corporate, business unit and strategic supplier partner priorities.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree – Marketing or Business Administration required; Masters’ Degree - Business Administration, Marketing Communications, Advertising, or Marketing preferred
7+ years experience in product or field marketing
3+ years experience in strategic business planning
5+ years experience in product or field marketing preferred
Experience in Industrial/B2B marketing preferred; distribution experience a plus preferred
Industry knowledge, including suppliers, customers, and competitors preferred
Experience in hiring, training, developing, managing and appraising personnel preferred
Marketing strategy and implementation
Strong creativity and entrepreneurial drive
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Strong research and analytics skills
Highly organized and detail-oriented
Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
Ability to influence others, meet deadlines, and deliver results
Ability to travel 0-25% of the time
Wesco International, Inc., including its subsidiaries and affiliates (“Wesco”) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law. US applicants only, we are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.
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