Associate Marketing Manager - Pleasanton, United States - Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc.

Description

**REWARDS AT SIMPSON STRONG-TIE**

We recognize and reward employees with a carefully designed and comprehensive rewards package, including competitive compensation, quarterly bonuses or commission and first-rate benefits.

**Quarterly Bonuses/Commission:** You will be eligible for either a bonus or commission, paid on a quarterly basis. We believe *all* employees affect customers, sales and revenue directly or indirectly and should be rewarded by sharing the company profits.

**Benefits:** We provide a wide range of benefits for eligible full-time employees including: medical, dental, vision, retirement contributions, employee stock purchase and bonus plans, pay for holidays, vacation, sick days, funerals and jury duty, years of service awards, employee discounts, employee referral bonuses, charitable contribution matching, education reimbursement and more.

**HOW WE'RE MAINTAINING A SAFE WORK ENVIRONMENT**

These are some of the ways we're maintaining a safe work environment at Simpson Strong-Tie.

**Sanitizing**: Increased cleaning and disinfecting of facilities

**Hand Sanitizer and Wipes**: Providing hand sanitizer and wipes throughout our facilities

**Face Coverings**: Providing face coverings for employees

**Limited Guests and Vendors**: Limiting guests and vendors to those who are essential only

**Extended Sick Pay**: Encouraging employees to stay home when sick

**Travel**: Banning the use of public transportation for business purposes, when possible

**BE A MAKER**

At Simpson Strong-Tie, theres a common thread connecting the people who work here: the drive to make things better and figure out how to get it done. We call it the Maker mindset. For over 60 years, our employees have fostered a collaborative workplace where people are engaged in creative thinking from the first day on the job onward. No matter what role youre in from production, to sales, to engineering youll contribute to the growth and success of the company by having a Maker mindset.

When you think of the best a family has to offer support, collaboration and respect that's what we value. When there's a win, we'll cheer you on. When there's a snag, coworkers step in to help you out. Working on solutions together is just the way we do things here, and that creates an atmosphere that often feels like home.

You'll work alongside talented, passionate, dedicated, humble and genuinely kind people who are all contributing to our shared mission: to provide solutions that help people design and build safer, stronger structures. It's this mission and our strong people-focused values that have made Simpson Strong-Tie a unique place to work a place where you can connect, create and build your career. We invite you to about our culture and why our employees are our most loyal customers.

**YOU**

You want to be an important member of a strong team of other makers who take pride in their work and support each other. As an Associate Marketing Manager National Retail. you will be You will be working closely with the National Retail Marketing Manager and the National Retail Sales team to help manage a broad range of projects to provide additional marketing support to the team in the U.S. and Canada. You will help track requests as well as initiate and manage projects included in the annual National Retail marketing plan as well as regional requests that will come in regularly. Common projects will include, managing point-of-purchase (POP) displays/graphics projects, creating sales literature, trade show preparation efforts, setting up and managing internal communication structures, and assisting with digital content projects for and customers websites.

In this role, you will also work closely with various teams within the Marketing department, such as Product Marketing Managers, Creative Services, Marketing Communications and our Digital Experience team to execute projects. You will also work with vendors to help coordinate display fixture and graphics projects as well as respond to time-sensitive requests from internal and external home center and co-op customers.

You should be an organized self-starter with a hunger to learn and a flexible, can-do spirit. Must be comfortable working in a dynamic environment with lots of projects and changing priorities, while also being passionate about team collaboration, communication and serving customers. You should be a good verbal and written communicator who likes to be the hub of coordination.

If career growth is important to you, we not only know how to help you with that, its what we love to do: .

**WHAT YOULL BE DOING** (% of Time)

Track and coordinate the intake, qualification and communication regarding regional marketing projects using Smartsheet software. Work with regional stakeholders to create and maintain quarterly activity reporting and coordinate the asset delivery processes (20%)

Manage the execution of a range of marketing projects to aid in the overall project bandwidth for the team in collaboration with the National Retail (N.R.) Marketing Manager, N.R. stakeholders and various teams within Marketing. (25%)

Co-Op Hardware Channel Trade Show Support Assist the N.R. Account Managers and Marketing Manager with trade show planning and executing deliverables, such as sell sheets and graphics (15%)

Customer Digital Content Assist N.R. Marketing Manager with content requests, initiatives and communication relating to home center brand advocates and other programs to help drive sales. (20%)

Work with Marketing, Product Management and Engineering to manage updates to various pieces in our library of extensive homeowner/DIY-targeted literature and P.O.P. display materials. (10%)

Collateral Management & Support Work with finance teams to coordinate the creation and management of vendor purchase orders. Tasks include solicitation of collateral quantities from branches, communicating status. Also including assigning SAP numbers to new collateral. (10%)

**DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE**

If you can do everything listed above, you have what it takes. Perhaps some of the following would be helpful too:

Bachelors degree preferred

3 years Marketing experience

2 years Project Management experience

Retail experience a plus

Strong organization skills; a self-starter who is able to keep track of multiple priorities and deadlines.

Solution oriented strives to find ways to meet the needs of the team and looks for ways to improve work.

An understanding of how marketing goals, strategies and tactics combine to produce results

Solid writing ability emails, group communications, simple marketing copy.

Good communications skills, including the ability to present simple presentations at department meetings, able to communicate clearly and concisely.

Comfort/fluency using a range of software including MS Office, especially .ppt, .xls and .doc as well as learning new tools, such as Smartsheet project management software.

Ability to work well with a range of people: Embraces work relationships and strives for positive interactions and results working with internal customers as well as people in the department

Ability to follow instructions and processes furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.

Ability to think critically about a task or project, and ask clarifying questions to prompt more detailed information being provided.

Flexible and open to trying new approaches to succeed; willing to jump in where needed to get the work done.

Able to set personal improvement goals and have honest discussions with management about development, growth and improvement.

**TRAVEL REQUIRED**

This job requires 5% domestic travel.

**WORK STATUS & LOCATION**

This full-time, exempt/non-exempt position is located in Pleasanton, CA (Open to Remote).

**RELOCATION**

Relocation is/is not available for this position.

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