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Marketing-Merchandising-St Louis,
MO Merchandising Manager

Ref. #0502
Global diversified industrial firm in St Louis, MO seeks Merchandising Manager to build and manage competency on merchandising for a $3 BIL. Division. New position, design own job. Must have prior supermarket merchandising experience.

Company provides integrated solutions to transport, preserve, store, and display temperature-sensitive products to industries ranging from transportation and manufacturing to food retailing, construction, and agriculture. Clients include CostCo, WalMart, Safeway. 400 person staff, 40-60 people in growing marketing department. New position. Report to VP-Marketing. 25% travel. Excellent benefits and career path, including global opportunities. Relocation assistance available.

Travel approximately twice a month.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or equivalent experience. 5-8 years’ experience in retail food merchandising. Must have prior supermarket merchandising experience.
Strong business acumen and sales support. Able to work in team environment, excellent communication skills, influence capabilities, and expertise in Microsoft Office products.

Responsibilities:

Build and manage competency on merchandising excellence. Innovate around retail grocery stores’ space use, concepts, and departments. These innovations create exciting merchandising departments for customers and stimulate purchases and sales for consumers and retail stores. Provide merchandising support to Product Manager(s) and retail organization (customer) to optimize sales and ensure perishable placement aides in maximizing customer profits. Function as merchandising expert and work closely with product managers. Participate in corporate sales calls with sales staff and provide field support.
Build and manage competency center on merchandising excellence.
Develop new, innovative merchandising concepts addressing retail store layout and product placement (refrigerated sets, self-serve deli programs, hot food cases etc.) that create exciting merchandising departments for customers and stimulate purchases for shoppers.
Create Merchandising System that encompasses “merchandising programs” to take advantage of Retail stores short term and the long-term investments (Programs executed at store level in regards to display, products and labor for maximizing gross margins and weekly profits).
Research and develop innovative perishable retail food merchandising techniques to increase sales and/or improve operating costs. Assist Product Managers in development and design of cases to strategically market perishable products to maximize customer profitability.
Provide support to field sales for customer visits, promotions, product launches, testing and customer needs analysis.
Recommend business processes to maintain customer awareness, improve communications and met business goals more effectively.
Participate in Retail Solutions Innovation team and provide support as needed.

Please forward your resume as a .doc, writing sample and cover letter including salary information, and state how you fit the specs. Send materials to lynn@lhazan.com and call 312-863-5401 to follow up. Resumes without cover letters and salary information will not be accepted.

Market Research-Quantitative Senior Manager,
Market Research & Customer Insights-St Louis, MO

Ref. #0501

Global diversified industrial firm in St Louis seeks Senior Manager, Market Research & Customer Insights to develop deep understanding of customer and marketing segments for a $3 BIL. Division. Candidate must have quantitative market research experience in B2B. SPSS experience a must. Company provides integrated solutions to transport, preserve, store, and display temperature-sensitive products to industries ranging from transportation and manufacturing to food retailing, construction, and agriculture. Clients include CostCo, WalMart, Safeway. 400 person staff, 40-60 people in growing marketing department. New position. Report to VP-Marketing. 25% travel. Excellent benefits and career path, including global opportunities. Relocation assistance available.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree preferred in Business, Marketing, or equivalent experience. Need 5-10 years’ experience,including 2-3 years’ marketing experience. Prefer corporate side experience; will consider supplier or agency candidates. Must have strong knowledge of market research techniques in quantitative, preferably in a B2B environment. Strengths in statistical analysis. Qualitative is a plus. Strong presentation skills. Fluency in English; any knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese is an asset. Computer literate.

Responsibilities:

Candidate will build research capabilities for company. Green field opportunity. Candidate can create own job. Candidate will gather data and provide actionable insights.
Develop and lead segmentation, market research, and market analysis projects. Engage heavily with other groups within Retail Solutions to assist in business planning, market understanding, customer targeting, and campaign planning. Develop and execute strategic and tactical market research projects-conventional and innovative methodologies. Needs analysis, concept testing, product optimization studies, product positioning studies, product positioning studies, communications exploratory and ad tests, consumer segmentation and targeting guidance.
Supervise 2-3 MBA research analysts.
Work closely with sales and engineering and present to senior leadership.

Healthcare Consumer Marcom /Advertising Associate Director, Global Marcom

Ref # 0473

Healthcare product manufacturer in NE IN. seeks Associate Director of Global Consumer Marketing Communications to drive strategic communications planning and oversee implementation of communications campaigns in the U.S. Company is moving from physician marketing to direct-to-consumer marketing and needs an experienced pro who can ask the right questions from the beginning and develop programs accordingly. 2006 sales: $3.5 billion worldwide. Firm markets 100,000+ products in 100+ countries and has #1 market share in several categories. Great opportunity for candidate looking for innovative, growing market. Located in affluent community in northeast Indiana, one of the Top 100 Small Towns in America. Commutable to Fort Wayne with low cost of living, and great outdoor recreation. Client needs to hire ASAP. Award winning work.

Qualifications:

B.S. degree, preferably in consumer communications, public relations, marketing or closely related field; MBA preferred. Minimum 8-10-12 years of experience on the corporate or ad agency side. Need hybrid candidate with consumer /advertising marketing/marcom /PR experience, healthcare work ideal. Must have experience creating coordinated campaigns that utilize a wide variety of media (print, video, interactive, trade shows) to reach multiple stakeholders, with strong results. Excellent oral and written communications a must, advertising account management skills should be especially strong. Experience in a leadership role directing the work of creative teams. Advanced computer skills using Microsoft Office suite.

Responsibilities:

Develop annual consumer marketing plan and communication initiatives including advertising, web initiatives, media, branding, promotion, education, value-added professional services, event marketing and trade shows. PR and ad work constitute 60% of time. Create market/customer segmentation to define strategy, ensure appropriate targeting and optimize positioning efforts. Monitor financial, technological and demographic factors to capitalize on market opportunities and minimize the effects of competitive activity. Work with distributors to train, educate and create local communications and marketing.
Drive development of effective, innovative and creative advertising, product publicity, sponsorship efforts and endorsement campaigns. Provide both creative and strategic direction and evaluate campaigns in a changing market. Write/edit news releases, articles. Provide media coaching to physicians. Assist in identification, development and retention of agencies and other outside vendors.
Set goals and prioritize an array of projects to completion on-schedule and on-budget and in the face of obstacles, achieving the target measurements/ROI. Motivates, influences, and leads internal and external teams to achieve common goals and objectives. Anticipates, identifies, and resolves potential constraints. Meet marketing and financial goals.
Manage Consumer Marketing Communications department. Mentor and evaluate staff of four. Manage consumer call center; 10-20% of time (to be established) and budget of $8 million. Direct media buying strategy.
Act as consultant with different internal departments on developing consumer marketing strategies.

5-25% travel.

Please forward your resume as a .doc and writing sample with cover letter including salary information, and state how you fit the specs. Send materials to lynn@lhazan.com and call 312-863-5401 to follow up. Resumes without cover letters and salary information will not be accepted.

Healthcare Marketing-Interactive
Associate Director, Interactive Communications

#0472

Healthcare product manufacturer in NE IN. seeks Associate Director of Interactive Communications to manage and maintain online content, functionality, design and application development for the company’s corporate, brand and initiative-driven websites, audience portals, and administrate web servers. Reports to Director of Global Marketing Communications. Company is moving from physician marketing to direct-to-consumer marketing; interactive area will be largest within the marcom group within 5 years. Online communications will be targeted to 300+million patients.

Candidate and function will create new ways to communicate with patients and use the best of the web. 2006 sales: $3.5 billion worldwide. Firm markets 100,000+ products in over 100 countries and has #1 market share in several categories. Great opportunity for candidate looking for innovative, growing market. Located in affluent community in northeast Indiana, one of the Top 100 Small Towns in America. Commutable to Fort Wayne with low cost of living, and great outdoor recreation. Award winning work. Client needs to hire asap.

Qualifications:

B.S. degree, preferably in communications, public relations, marketing or closely related field; MBA preferred. Ideal candidate is strategically inclined and understands both IT and communications equally well.
5+ years’ experience in a webmaster role, directing a creative team, on the corporate or agency side. Overall, must have 10 years of experience, including supervisory. Must have experience creating coordinated campaigns that utilize a wide variety of mediums (print, video, interactive, PR, trade shows) to reach multiple stakeholders, with strong results. Advanced knowledge of graphic design, print, media production and marketing principles. Proficient in Mac/PC graphic applications (DTP, Photoshop, Illustrator) and MS office suite, including web development tools in a Microsoft environment. Portfolio required. Must be capable of providing creative oversight and direction to website functionality, design and ongoing enhancement to optimize web traffic and message delivery.
Excellent oral and written communications. Innovative, strategic thinker with a clear understanding of branding, marketing, and business strategies. Market and customer focused. Strong analytic, creative thinking, and project management skills.

Responsibilities:

Deliver interactive communications services to meet online needs of internal and external customers. Company maintains 38 corporate websites and 400 for its approved physicians.80% of time dedicated to creating external promotions and campaigns for external websites and to promoting company’s brand. Direct the development and execution of comprehensive interactive communication plans and budgets to help achieve brand goals. Maintain web pages for approved physicians. Oversee processes and procedures in Interactive Communications department. Manage projects so that they meet financial and timeline goals. Research, analyze and monitor financial, technological and demographic factors to capitalize on market opportunities and minimize the effects of competitive activity. Supervise, mentor and evaluate 4 staff in both local and off-site offices. 5-10% travel.

Please forward your resume as a .doc and website samples with cover letter including salary information, and state how you fit the specs. Send materials to lynn@lhazan.com and call 312-863-5401 to follow up. Resumes without cover letters and salary information will not be accepted.