Marketing Manager for Strategic Accounts - Shaw Commercial Flooring Job Opening

Job Title

Marketing Manager for Strategic Accounts - Shaw Commercial Flooring

Position Overview

S haw is a global design leader in commercial flooring for some of the world’s most creative and innovative environments. Our vast, sustainable product offerings can be found in diverse markets such as workplace, healthcare, hospitality, education and multi-family dwellings; supporting the spaces in which we work, learn, live, play and heal.

As a Marketing Manager for Commercial Strategic Accounts, you will identify and implement the most innovative and effective strategies for reaching strategic accounts. Working with our Strategic Account Vice Presidents out in the field and other leadership, you will help develop strategy for our million-dollar accounts outside of the US. With your deep account understanding and analytical skills, you will develop compelling custom marketing and sales material, using sales reports and product information to contribute to strategy. Working closely with support staff and the graphics team, you will create compelling custom support materials such as sales reports, presentations tear sheets, and microsites – whatever materials that will best serve our accounts. This Marketing Manager will help grow our market share outside of the US through translating strategic account strategy into best-in-the-industry marketing materials. The role works from our commercial marketing campus in Cartersville, GA.

What you'll be doing:

• Collaborate with Sales Leaders and Strategic Account VPs in the field to gather project requirements.
• Investigate and communicate the most innovative and effective strategic account marketing strategies.
• Manage communications and protocol to create dynamic collaboration and eventual agreement.
• Work with all levels of the organization to achieve objectives and ensure coordination, including the Legal, Pricing, and Brand divisions.
• Create engaging and compelling communications for our largest accounts including content, visuals and materials.
• Build and empower staff: Lead, coach, mentor and develop staff.
• Establish a culture of respect, collaboration and accountability.
• Define processes to ensure accurate and timely dissemination of information.
• Organize and share information and strategies across the team.
• Work with others to create a strategic vision for the department.

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, journalism, business or related degree.
• Master’s or MBA preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in a marketing, communications, or project management role.
• Demonstrated track record of effective, organized, and thoughtful team leadership.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
• Must be flexible, able to shift priorities and work non-standard hours.
• Must be able to translate technical information into clear communications for a general audience.
• Advanced communications, analytical, and interpersonal skills.

Position Competencies:

• Practice Entrepreneurial Behavior
• Demonstrate Customer Orientation
• Drive Results
• Delegate Authority
• Build Trusting Relationships

Although our highly-distributed workforce can be found around the globe, Shaw Contract is based out of Cartersville, Georgia in our new highly-sustainable, world-class Create Centre facility, which is home to product development and marketing for our commercial division, demonstrating our commitment to hiring the best talent. We hire humble, collaborative and ambitious people and give them endless opportunities to grow and succeed. Shaw Industries Group, Inc. is a vertically integrated manufacturer that supplies carpet, hardwood, laminate, resilient, tile & stone flooring products and synthetic turf to residential and commercial markets globally. Headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, and with manufacturing in the United States, Scotland, Mexico and China, Shaw is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. with more than $4.5 billion in annual sales and 23,000 associates worldwide.

Work Shift

8 hour, day shift

Shaw is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. It is our policy to recruit, hire, train, and promote individuals in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, gender identity, or any other legally protected status.