WOOD - Industry Specific Marketing Manager

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The Marketing Manager ? Wood provides WOOD marketing leadership across the entire company?s territory.

Primary duty is achieving short-term and long-range marketing goals by directing Sales Managers? efforts and coordinating the support of internal departments and suppliers. Understanding the product line, pricing and margin, and creative marketing are the primary skills used in conjunction with management of people as well as planning, organizing, and administration. The position reports to the Marketing Director and works closely with suppliers, all Sales Managers and Account Executives who sell WOOD. The Manager works closely with all departments, especially purchasing, credit, warehouse operations, and customer services. The WOOD Product Manager and three Marketing Administrative Assistants report to the WOOD Marketing Manager.

Principal Activities:

-Achieve long- and short-term sales, gross margin $ and % goals.
-Build, update and effectively market the product line.
-Develop and maintain marketing plans.
-Achieve the annual, quarterly and monthly marketing plan goals.
-Secure best products, price, quality, delivery, displays, samples, and promotional support.
-Manage price and margin.
-Provide training, product price, promotion and availability information.
-Obtain and use customers? needs, products, market trends, and competition information.
-Maintain the product line and other services package.
-Direct purchasing to maintain optimal SKU?s and inventory levels.
-Maintain key customer relationships.
-Satisfy suppliers? needs for results, information, and personal relationships.
-Supervises a Marketing Assistant.
-Maintain relationships and work processes with internal departments.

Qualifications:

-Minimum five years experience in marketing and managing a major product line, specifically in the WOOD industry.
-Successful experience increasing sales and improving margin.
-Creative marketing skills and abilities combined with business acumen.
-Personal drive and organization skills to coordinate successful programs.
-Skilled in MS Office Suite: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, experience with ERP desired.
-WOOD experience REQUIRED.
-Excellent analytical, organizational and planning, and leadership skills.
-Results orientation, teamwork attitude, resourcefulness, and persistence.
-Concern for employees and strong shareholder values.
-Bachelor degree required, business discipline preferred.
-20- 30% travel required, more during peaks.
-Evening and some weekend work frequently required.


About Aquent
For 20 years Aquent has led the way in transforming how companies find and utilize marketing and creative talent to execute their brand strategies. Aquent?s pioneering approach to staffing and services has helped thousands of companies ? including two-thirds of the Fortune 500 and 90 of the Fortune 100 ? build their internal marketing and communications capabilities. Today Aquent has 70 offices across 17 countries, with 11,000 talent working at more than 3,000 companies. Aquent, www.aquent.com, is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.