DATE: July 1, 2010
COMPANY: Growth Nation – Scottsdale, Arizona
REPORTS TO: Doug Bruhnke, CEO of Growth Nation
WORK LOCATION: Western US – prefer Phoenix, Tucson, San Diego and Salt Lake City
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:
Lead successful marketing projects at customers to create increased revenue and profitability. Work with customers and other members of Growth Nation to grow the customers in line with their expectations and the plans. Sustain marketing activities including:
- Be a hands-on project manager for new product and marketing projects at multiple customers, and take ownership of marketing initiatives and projects to ‘get it done’.
- Manage customers including determining expectations, building a realistic plan to those expectations, and then exceeding expectations.
- Determine the best marketing programs to achieve the plan, obtain customer buy-in, and successfully implement growth.
- Do what it takes to get the plan implemented through your own work or through resources inside the customer, inside Growth Nation or within the resource pool of Growth Nation.
- Measure progress by setting weekly goals and measuring progress relative to the goals in areas such as leads, website hits and other appropriate marketing measures.
- Continually improve the capabilities of the marketing effort – both throughput and quality.
- Understand the growth opportunities for the customer and continually find ways to improve ROI in achieving measurable growth.
- Obtain success stories and testimonials for a job well done.
- Drive marketing strategy and achieve effective communication of clear, focused, compelling messages to target customer groups worldwide.
- Manage sustaining activities of the group such as database management, pricing, sales forecasting, market research, marketing literature, promotions and SKU reductions.
- Work as a key team member in the customer’s strategic planning process.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- An undergraduate degree, preferably in Business or Marketing, as well as five or more years experience in marketing, sales and business growth-related activities.
- Experience delivering in high performance marketing organization that gets growth results.
- Experience in small and/or medium-sized business environments.
- Strong familiarity with all aspects of marketing including social media, web, direct, PR, etc.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- MBA degree
- Experience with technology, manufacturing and professional service segments.
- Excellent communication and people management skills.
- Experience managing product development projects.
- Experience with international marketing.
OTHER INFORMATION:
The position compensation is negotiable based on skills and experience. Please submit resumes to Doug Bruhnke, CEO of Growth Nation, doug@growthnation.com and 480-595-5000, Scottsdale, Arizona.