Category Marketing Manager

MAC Staffing Group is looking for a full-time, experienced marketing professional to serve as a Category Marketing Manager, for its client’s category marketing team. The ideal candidate has 3 to 5 years of hands-on working experience managing a heavy volume of marketing efforts, campaigns, and content creation, e.g., direct mail, brochures, postcards, print advertisements, and miscellaneous collateral. This position will work closely with graphic designers, print production staff, and subject matter experts to produce marketing efforts with brand consistency in a fast-paced environment.

Experience supporting a sales or account/client team is highly desirable. Bachelor’s degree required. Experience with the auction business and/or collectibles, fine art, or luxury lifestyle goods is preferred. This position will report to the Vice President of Marketing.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: Duties include but are not limited to the following.

• Owning the support function, end to end, of marketing campaigns for specific auctions and categories. Monitor market trends to calibrate marketing efforts.
• Managing the processes for producing print marketing efforts and campaigns, e.g., creating jobs, scheduling production workflow, acquiring creative assets, communicating job specs to the graphic design team, and interfacing with print production vendors.
• Serving and collaborating with assigned internal clients and subject matter experts, i.e., the directors of our 50 categories of collectibles, fine art, and luxury lifestyle items.
• Providing content (marketing copy and images) to the graphic design team.
• Creating media plans by sourcing trade and general interest publications, negotiating advertising rates, and managing insertion orders.
• Collaborating with other departments (Digital Team, Operations, Events, Photography) to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Liaise with the digital marketing team to ensure digital marketing efforts (emails, web marketing, social media) are scheduled and efficiently executed.
• Discover the unique stories behind the items we auction through regular interaction with subject matter experts.
• Facilitate storytelling by subject matter experts for video production.

The successful candidate is a deadline-driven, reliable self-starter, able to work independently with extreme attention to detail. Must be able to juggle and prioritize a heavy volume of jobs with competing deadlines, i.e., know when to put aside one project to start another, yet work on both simultaneously.

Required interpersonal skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Creative thinker, open to new ideas and viewpoints from co-workers.
• Objective and tactful; able to give and receive constructive criticism.
• Resilient team player with a sense of humor and thick skin who can see the big picture.
• Understands how to balance and separate the critical from the trivial during tight deadlines with very quick turn-around demands.

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