Marketing Business Partner Full-time Job

Provides strategic direction and execution of Marketing related events and regional initiatives with a strategic focus on attracting new customers, building greater loyalties with existing customers, and contributing to sales growth through customer experiences with Wolseley.

 

What’s in it for you

• Regular business hours Monday to Friday
• Comprehensive benefits with premiums fully paid for by the company for the “Core” package starting the first day of employment.
• Career development and training opportunities
• Life insurance, disability and wellness program
• Retirement savings programs including RRSP and DC pension with up to 5.25% employer contribution
• Paid vacation and sick time and day off on your birthday!
• Bonus programs that include annual performance and profit sharing
• Employee discounts on top brands of plumbing and HVAC/R products
• Education reimbursement for employees
• Employee referral program
• Safety shoe reimbursement

 

What you will do

• Acts as a strategic partner to the Business and contributes to a cross-functional internal stakeholder team
• Ensures excellence in the execution of programmed events and activities as well as strategic regional initiatives
• Communicates regularly with both internal and external stakeholders and acts as the first point of contact for all regional marketing-related activation
• Manages multiple projects at various stages from inception to execution
• Develops creative and logistical strategies for each event or activation
• Manages the creative process for all projects (as required)
• Fosters strong relationships with regional leaders and establishes a regular cadence to review the status of all projects
• Collaborates as an active member of the overall marketing group and ensures valuable insights and perspectives from the region are considered in all programs
• Collaborates as an active partner to the Business and ensures oversight of all regional marketing and brand standards
• Develops comprehensive marketing briefs and guides the work of outside agencies
• Establishes best practices by leveraging data and insights
• Seeks and tracks chosen metrics and results data to determine the success of deployed marketing tactics
• Maintains fiscal prudence, tracking (as prescribed), and accountability
• Ensures all regional marketing-related activities are undertaken with a clear tie to the organization’s corporate values and objectives
• Manages and administers various vendor programs and ensures the thoughtful use of every earned dollar through events, activities, promotions & customer co-branding initiatives to attract new customers, build greater loyalty with existing customers, and maximize sales of the brand.

 

What you will bring

• The ideal candidate is results-driven, has excellent leadership, influencer, and collaboration skills, and is a relationship builder. Has good knowledge of business and the ability to motivate and engage a stakeholder group to achieve objectives.
• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business or a related field
• Minimum 5 years experience in progressive marketing-related roles
• A passionate marketer and team player with marketing and communications expertise, proven experience in strategy, hands-on execution, project management, and digital marketing.
• Experience in executing customer events, virtual and in person, training and tradeshow focused
• Experience in working with external agencies
• Strong written verbal and presentation skills
• Creative problem solving

 

Each resume submitted gets individually reviewed by our team and retained for 24 months if other new and exciting opportunities arise that match your skills and qualifications. 

 

Please note: This position requires the result of a satisfactory criminal record check.  A record under the Criminal Code and/or other federal offence record(s) does not automatically mean you will be ineligible for the position.

Wolseley Canada is part of Ferguson plc, a leading value-added distributor in North America providing expertise, solutions and products from infrastructure, plumbing and appliances to HVAC, fire, fabrication and more. Ferguson is headquartered in the U.K., with its operations and associates solely focused on North America and managed from Newport News, Virginia. With approximately 36,000 associates across 1,700 locations in North America, Ferguson exists to make our customers' complex projects simple, successful and sustainable.