Description
DESCRIPTIONThe Marketing Segment Specialist will market product development with a local-media focus.
Responsibilities:
- Market channel delivery and product strategy/positioning.
- Analyze advertising trends and increase business market trends.
- Evaluate Profit & Loss, average customer value, and ROI.
- Conduct secondary advertiser and consumer research.
- Create product development and positioning plans including the provision of project timelines, projected revenues and expenses, sales channel and target considerations, and projected ROI.
- Develop, implement, and support the project plan by working closely with the necessary channels (sales, production, manufacturing, IT, finance, etc).
- Work with cross-functional teams and vendors to ensure the successful execution of projects.
- Conduct detailed product, customer and market level analysis, and make recommendations on changes to project strategy and execution.
- Analysis and communication of market level data illustrating, share of wallet in target industry.
- Provide product suite and pricing refinement in target industry.
- Work with Interactive group in development of online vertical priorities and strategy.
- Assist in identifying high-propensity-to-buy-non-advertisers in vertical segments.
- Obtain sales channel and customer feedback on industry needs and disseminate best practices.
- Work closely with sales teams on industry training and proposal development for major accounts.
- BA in Marketing or related field required; MBA a plus.
- Must have minimum of three years work experience in Health & Medical industry as decision maker in advertising purchase decisions and/or media plan development across multiple media.
- Industry expertise in vertical marketing strategy a must.
- Expert verbal and written communication skills required.
- Must have market analysis expertise.
- Microsoft Office skills necessary.
- Minimum of seven years work experience in Health & Medical industry performing various business roles in sales or marketing preferred.
- Background in a marketing function within a small/medium consumer-focused practice desired.
- Requires some travel.
SKILLS
Industry expertise. Media plan development, Communication skills, Market analysis, Microsoft Office
Synectics is an Equal Opportunity Employer.