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Marketing Specialist

The Marketing Specialist, Promotions coordinates the development and execution of marketing campaigns and programs while providing ongoing tactical support. Reporting to a Sr. Manager, this role requires strong project management skill to supports cross-functional campaign teams through close analysis of insights and trends, and owning the details in campaign delivery to ensure seamless execution

Core Responsibilities:

• Campaign Planning: Supports the Wellwise Marketing & Promotions team in developing marketing briefs, including compiling consumer/business insights (e.g., insights from the Customer CoE) and pulling in relevant past campaign data to advise best practices​. Sample projects include coordinating Wellwise Promotional CRM Campaigns (such as SMS, email, web, etc), Enterprise promotional programs, promo paid digital media and promo Radio.
• Campaign Execution - Creative: Supports the Wellwise team in coordinating with internal/external agency counterparts, and other partners (e.g., Loblaw Media, Loblaw Digital, Merchandising, Business Analytics, Loyalty etc ) for the review and approval of creative; closely reviews creative against established brand guidelines, and aggregates feedback provided by collaborators (e.g., Marketing and Division leadership)​. Oversees all campaign proofing requirements.
• Campaign Execution - Deployment: Coordinates campaign deployment, ensuring the launch and execution aligns to campaign objectives; proactively monitors in-flight campaigns for optimization opportunities, flags them to the team, and implements decisions; actions other execution-related needs from the Division/Merchant teams, or local store operations, as required​
• Optimization, Innovation & Best Practices: Contributes to the post-mortem process, including working with partners to compile campaign performance report reports with key metrics, participating in post-mortem discussions, and documenting learnings
• Campaign Metrics & Tracking: Supports budget planning, development and monitoring/updating (including status reports); updates brand/project/KPI dashboards; contributes to research, analysis and reporting to inform campaign activity​
• Billing & Forecasting: Oversees coordination of invoices from various vendors to ensure they are processed along with the management of budget control report, making sure campaigns are delivered in full against the planned budget.  Also responsible for ensuring vendor invoices paid in a timely manner​
• Project Management: Oversees campaigns are delivered in full against the planned budget; responsible for submitting vendor invoices in a timely manner and manages campaigns through internal project management tools

Outcomes & KPIs:

• Delivering on day-to-day marketing activities, timeline management and plan execution​
• Accurate/up-to-date budget tracking and reporting​
• Successful execution of projects​
• Contribution to the achievement of campaign objectives​

Key Skills & Capabilities:

• Balancing delivery for multiple projects in a fast-paced environment​
• Strong attention to detail
• Brand communications, creative & media strategy (traditional and digital media)​
• Experience in creating and executing targeted marketing campaigns
• Knowledge of general marketing strategy and business principles​
• Understanding of business and marketing principles to effectively align CRM strategies with overall business goals​
• Strong project management skills to coordinate and implement CRM initiatives and campaigns
• Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign and Adobe Acrobat)

Experience:

• 1-3 years of experience​

Our commitment to Sustainability and Social Impact is an essential part of the way we do business, and we focus our attention on areas where we can have the greatest impact. Our approach to sustainability and social impact is based on three pillars – Environment, Sourcing and Community – and we are constantly looking for ways to demonstrate leadership in these important areas. Our CORE Values – Care, Ownership, Respect and Excellence – guide all our decision-making and come to life through our Blue Culture. We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility, and other competitive benefits – these are some of the many reasons why we are one of Canada’s Top Employers, Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers & Canada’s Top Employers for Young People.

If you are unsure whether your experience matches every requirement above, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are looking for varied perspectives which include diverse experiences that we can add to our team.

We have a long-standing focus on diversity, equity and inclusion because we know it will make our company a better place to work and shop. We are committed to creating accessible environments for our colleagues, candidates and customers. Requests for accommodation due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary or permanent) can be made at any stage of application and employment. We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can provide equitable opportunities.  
 
Please Note:
Candidates who are 18 years or older are required to complete a criminal background check. Details will be provided through the application process.