Thursday, July 19, 2012

[KITlist] CONTR: Partner Services Marketing Communications Manager (San Jose, CA)

 

Please direct your responses to: http://tinyurl.com/Crawfords-583

Crawford Group (www.crawfordgroup.com) is seeking a full time Partner Services Marketing Communications consultant for one of our high tech clients in San Jose, CA.

The Partner Services Marketing Communications consultant is expected to fulfill two business needs:

* Position, communicate, and amplify the benefits of an entire portfolio of services targeted to partners

* Integrate the story of partner services with the Global Marketing organization and Worldwide Partner organization.

In order to position and communicate the benefits of the portfolio of services, the Partner Services Marketing Communications consultant will work with internal clients to develop key messages for specific services, as well as a messaging framework for the entire services portfolio. The consultant will then plan and execute a holistic grouping of marketing communications deliverables that could include web content, collateral, newsletters, videos, webinars, events, and executive/partner conferences.

To effectively integrate the story of partner services with Global Marketing and Worldwide Partner organizations, the consultant will become aware of key campaigns and branding initiatives, the cadence of strategic communications and executive communications targeting customer segments and technology architecture decision makers. The consultant will integrate service portfolio messages with various thought leadership platforms, social media and customer testimonials targeting partners.

Skills:

* Experience with creating and delivering integrated marketing communications campaign (online and offline): web content, collateral, newsletters, videos, webinars, events and executive/partner conferences

* Experience with marketing content production required--prefer someone who can be hands-on in execution; need to be comfortable writing and editing marketing content for custom audiences (e.g. end user customer, business partners, internal sales teams)

* Good at dealing with complexity and competing goals; need to be able to make recommendations with only 70% of the necessary information

* Ability to juggle multiple priorities and stakeholders

* Ability to adhere to brand guidelines and work with corporate review teams to ensure brand compliance

* Excellent interpersonal skills; master at building relationships across internal teams to gather data and drive projects

* Proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel

Requirements:

* 7+ years of partner marketing communications strategy experience for at least one global technology company

* Familiarity with networking technology and industry

* Cisco marketing communications experience is preferred

* Proven success working on cross-functional, cross-cultural and virtual teams

* Proven ability to drive projects forward in a rapidly changing environment

* Good listener, able to influence key stakeholders

* Ability to manage and prioritize simultaneous projects in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment

* Must be results oriented and metrics driven

* BA/BS in Marketing, Communications or related field

Rate: $2,200 per week, as a w2 employee of Crawford Group

Location: Onsite at client offices in San Jose, CA. No phone calls please

Hours/duration: Full time, ASAP; July 26, 2013

Interested? Please create an online profile including a Word version resume by following the link below:

http://tinyurl.com/Crawfords-584

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