Marketing Category Specialist II

Kimball Midwest, a national distributor of maintenance, repair, and operation products, is searching for a Product Marketing Specialist II for the Marketing Department at our Columbus, OH, location.

As a Kimball Midwest associate, you will experience why we have been listed as one of the Top Workplaces in Columbus 12 years in a row! Our sales revenue growth is dynamic, increasing from $1 million in 1983 to more than $500 million today. Throughout all our growth we have kept the family owned and operated culture alive. At Kimball Midwest, you are a name and not a number and we pride ourselves on our unique culture.

This position includes spearheading cross-departmental efforts to create marketing material and strategies for assigned product categories in order to drive revenue growth.

Responsibilities:

• Build product portfolio strategies and driving financial results for assigned category.
• Create product strategies that drive revenue growth, GP and GPAC, and enhance sales rep earnings.
• Assist the Manager of Category Management & the Director of Product Management & Commercialization in the aggressive, profitable, and successful growth of the Company.
• Develop insights that are derived from data and are customer focused that progress merchandising strategies for your assigned categories.
• Analyze product assortment and data analytics to establish priorities within product categories based on market trends, customer needs, portfolio gaps, strategic plans, and feasibility to execute.
• Execute new product development process, partnering with Product Line, from ideation through development and launch.
• Achieve a high understanding of assigned categories.
• Creation and execution of content schedule for visual production team.
• Creation of material for the company catalog, eCommerce, email marketing, product development, and social media.
• Implement best practices for lifecycle management.
• Execute new product development processes (which include product testing and evaluation.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business administration or marketing or equivalent work history.
• 4 - 5 years of experience in marketing with growing levels of responsibility.
• Ability to analyze, interpret, and filter down to key information; strategic thinking while systematically problem solving.
• Ability to make data-driven decisions, understand financial statements and reporting, and communicate the significance of data as a story.
• Must be able to develop and implement Standard Operation Procedures (SOP) and use data to inform decision making.
• Must be able to discern patterns in data to create action and make connections across the business regarding relevant data and objectives.
• Demonstrated skills in managing multiple projects, coordinating across multiple disciplines and teams, delivering successfully to challenging deadlines.
• High degree of ownership and initiative.
• Collaborative mindset- ability to energize and activate plans across team members.
• Entrepreneurial spirit - proven ability to develop and execute new ideas - willing to champion new and different ideas even in the face of strong challenges.

Benefits:

We offer a benefits package that includes health, dental and vision insurance, company sponsored life, optional life and disability insurance, Paid Parental leave, Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts, a 401(k) plus match, Tuition Assistance, Paid Time Off (PTO), a Dress For Your Day dress code and paid holidays.

This is a hybrid position being in the office T-R and at home Monday and Friday.

Kimball Midwest is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to a program of recruitment of females, minority group members, individuals with disabilities, qualifying veterans and any other classification that is protected by federal, state, or local law.

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