Promotional Products Marketing Assistant

MOBO Promotional Solutions; Saskatoon; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A local promotional products company seeks a Promotional Products Marketing Assistant to support a growing sales team. Responsibilities include creating proposals, monitoring vendor product information, and collaborating with team members. Ideal candidates are motivated, problem-solvers with a passion for marketing and branding.

Qualifications

• At least 1 year in some sales capacity.
• Basic math and accounting experience preferred.
• Experience with marketing or promotional products is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support sales team by creating proposals, catalogs, and special offers.
• Gather product information for quotes and presentations.
• Collaborate with internal teams and coordinate with Graphic Artists.

Skills

Sales process

Proposal creation

Problem-solving

Education

Marketing diploma or degree

Job description

Promotional Products Marketing Assistant – Full-time Position

WHO WE ARE:

We are a local company providing Promotional Products, Printed Materials and Branded Apparel with in-house decoration to leading companies across Canada. We have an experienced team of Overachievers, Creative Geniuses & Dog Lovers (cats are cool too). We’re also very effective BRAND BUILDERS! We are experts at creating meaningful relationships between brands and their customers. For over 37 YEARS our team at MOBO has been ensuring that every client’s unique brand vision is accurately relayed to the people who matter the most to them!

POSITION SUMMARY:

The purpose of this role is to build, maintain and growPROMOTIONAL MARKETING BUSINESSusing our effective growth formula. Your main responsibility will be to support a team of consultants who sell promotional products. NOTE: This position is full-time. The team here at MOBO is located near the Saskatoon airport at 335 Robin Way.

DAY-to-DAY

Day-to-day, you’ll be supporting a team, creating proposals, and pitching our products and services…every day will be FUN and different! As part of this opportunity, you’ll also be a part of a VERY fast-paced and high-growth company. You’re getting in on the ground floor of an experienced but growing sales team and will have input and responsibility as we grow the team.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required:

• A marketing diploma or degree
• At least 1 year in some sales capacity
• Sales process experience
• Proposal creation experience

Preferred:

• At least 2 years of high-performance experience in marketing or sales
• Worked with a marketing agency or a promotional products company previously
• Basic math and accounting experience

DISQUALIFIERS:

Please DO NOT apply to this position if you:

• Have less than 1 year of sales experience

• Don’t have a car

• Don’t have the ability to self-motivate

KEY RESPONSIBILITES:

• Monitor and share vendor product information and pricing with sales team including new products, innovations and sustainability features
• Seeking and gathering information, pricing, pictures and descriptions of products and services from vendors for the purpose of creating quotes and presentations in SAGE, PowerPoint or Word in response to inquiries from prospects and clients in a timely manner
• Supporting our Sales Team by creating proactive marketing catalogs, special offers and spec samples
• Identify and coordinate with Graphic Artist weekly Features/Specials
• Make recommendations for sample orders of new products for our showroom
• Process sizing sample returns
• Manage the onboarding process for new clients and review requests
• Collaborate & problem solve successfully with internal teams
• Participating in PK’s (Product Knowledge) meetings where vendors share information about their products and services
• Participating in trade shows related to learning about promotional products and services
• You are a leader without title. Being a kind, hard working and dedicated worker is required.There may be activities outside of the duties above which are not listed but will simply fall under being a supportive co-worker.

THIS IS FOR YOU, if…

·You love marketing & branding!

·You’re great with people and love making others feel comfortable

·You have an obsessive drive to help people through the sales of a product you believe in, and you hate missing out on potential sales opportunities.

·You are process-driven and good at problem-solving and figuring things out on your own with minimal direction… can create your own structured work environment.

·You actively seek out new connections and business and love to learn new skills.

·You implement. And do so with minimal direction, doing a lot of your own research to find the best way to solve the problem at hand.

·Lastly and most importantly, you’re driven. You want to work hard, learn a ton, and run your own clientele under our brand.

THE PAY:

Starting at $18 to $20 per hour (depending on experience).