Marketing Manager Communications - Assistant

This role supports the SherwinWilliams Industrial Wood Division internal and external communications by executing campaigns aligned with brand strategies. Responsibilities include project management content development digital marketing trade show support and general marketing tasks.

This position plays a key role in driving brand visibility and supporting sales growth through effective communication strategies.

The Assistant Marketing Communications Manager reports to the Marketing Communications Manager and is based in Cleveland OH.

External Communications

• Coordinate projects and requests and clearly communicate strategy timeline and budgets for those projects to Creative Services and Digital Marketing teams.
• Work with Marketing Communications Manager to develop content creation that aligns with business goals including the creation of demo videos product literature color trend materials and other promotional/sales support pieces as needed.
• Work directly with product teams to execute on product launch tactics.
• Lead digital programs including outbound email website management and social programs.
• Collaborate with digital and creative services teams to develop and oversee successful demand and lead generation campaigns throughout the year including product launches segment nurture and color and design campaigns.
• Understand measurement of campaign effectiveness and report to leadership and to peers in formal debrief sessions.
• Manage stain box program for both SherwinWilliams and M.L. Campbell.
• Lead creating executing and maintaining engaging programs for our distribution brand M.L. Campbell.
• Assist in event management including external tradeshows including creating messaging managing registration and housing and ideating on innovated ways to promote our brands pre and post show.

Internal Communications and Sales Support

• Colead the Industrial Wood Sales meeting coordinating registration opening and awards session development and messaging internal show booth to highlight new program and product launches.
• Collaborate with Industrial Wood Brand Management team and Creative Services team to establish and maintain brand guidelines.
• Assist with management of cobranding process with customers brand marketing team market segment teams sales and legal team from intake to execution of agreements.
• Own and maintain Industrial Wood and M.L. Campbell SharePoint sites to ensure all content is managed organized and easily accessible to the Industrial Wood selling organizations and stakeholders.
• Coordinate ongoing communications to field sales including emails newsletters webinars videos and training materials to ensure all areas of the business feel well informed.
• Ownership of proper stocking of all collateral and selling materials at internal and external vendors.
• Processing invoices from outside vendors for payment.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Companys staff employees and business relationships.

Knowledge and Experience

• 5 years of integrated marketing communications experience.
• Outstanding writing and content development skills.
• Highly proficient in PowerPoint Excel and Word.
• Familiarity with maintaining critical marketing communications processes and platforms (website marketing automation social media etc.).
• Detailed oriented with the ability to learn new concepts quickly.
• Demand generation experience experience with Marketo and Salesforce preferred.
• Thrives in highly matrixed environment.

Travel Requirements

• 10%

Formal Education:

• Bachelors Degree

Preferred:

• MBA or Masters