
Retail Marketing Associate
Scandinavian Tobacco Group
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Bethlehem • Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United States
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About the role
- Plan, select and execute promotional advertising under the guidance of the Retail Marketing Manager.
- Ensure the end-to-end process for vendor events and other in-store events are executed accurately and on time.
- Constant dialogue with vendors and the retail and corporate support teams to execute across channels.
- Manage email and social campaigns to drive customers to retail locations.
- Coordinate with design, merchandising, photography, IT on the development of campaigns; reviewing all campaigns for accuracy, and ensuring on time delivery of creative.
- Review and approve final creative ensuring all details are accurate.
- Ensure promotions are set up on internal systems and web sites.
- Set up in store digital displays to message various events.
- Ensure all events are within budget.
- Ensure all channels are activated as needed per alignment with store and budgets, including but not limited to: OOH (Billboards, Radio, etc), Digital (Geofencing, Podcasts, etc), Print (Catalog, DM, Space, Newspaper, etc), On Site, Email, Social, In Store (Digital Displays, etc).
- Complete post-mortem to determine if event(s) should be repeated.
- Support in store (on location) events as needed throughout the year.
- Participate in researching, planning and launching new marketing initiatives.
- Contribute to collaborative efforts and organize promotional events.
- Support and participate in other shared service department processes, analysis and projects.
- Support retail management with vendor relationships that impact retail marketing initiatives.
- Monitor local competitors and report on marketing and sales activities.
Requirements
- Minimum 2 years’ experience managing print or digital advertising placements (can be from vendor, customer or agency perspective).
- Associate or bachelor’s degree in marketing, Business or Economics (preferred).
- Retail experience preferred.
- Highly organized with strong organizational, planning and negotiation skills.
- Able to prioritize and execute multiple projects simultaneously, while maintaining meticulous attention to detail.
- Strong interpersonal skills; ability to interact with team members, as well as other individuals at various levels within the organization.
- Understands the need for meeting deadlines, time management, contingency planning, and knowledge of approval procedures.
- Responsive to changing priorities and deadlines.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Comfortable working independently, yet not afraid to ask questions or escalate issues as needed.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel; experience in using Excel to perform analysis.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Health Care
- Vision & Dental Plan
- Flexible Spending Account
- Disability Plans
- Basic & Supplemental Life Insurance
- Additional Supplemental Benefits
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Time Off (PTO) days
- Holidays
- 401(k) Retirement Saving Plan including a generous Company match
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
digital advertisingprint advertisingcampaign managementevent planningbudget managementvendor managementgeofencingpromotional marketingdata analysisproject management
Soft skills
organizational skillsplanning skillsnegotiation skillsattention to detailinterpersonal skillstime managementcontingency planningcommunication skillsindependent workadaptability