Senior Digital Marketing Specialist

at Discount Tire Corporate Careers
Published April 7, 2019
Location Scottsdale, AZ
Category Default  
Job Type Full-time  

Description

Here at Discount Tire, we celebrate the spirit of our people with extraordinary pride and enthusiasm. Our business has been growing for more than 55 years and now is the best time in our history to join us. We are opening more locations every year and we are always looking for qualified individuals to join us in our growth. We are a company that promotes from within, both in our retail and corporate operations.

The Senior Digital Marketing Specialist ensures media spend is optimized across multiple channels; paid search, social media, display and video networks, affiliate networks and programmatic buying.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Cultivates new partnerships and publisher relationships; determines optimum partner mix
  • Ensures sales quality audits are completed timely and correctly
  • Recommends optimum use of digital channels to achieve marketing objectives
  • Recommends and validates research tests, including, but not limited to, ad copy, landing page, bid, geo and network
  • Analyzes, determines, and validates publisher reports; makes preliminary recommendations determining the Company's intended audiences; targets audiences accordingly
  • Develops, optimizes and reports on the overall advertising strategy to support general marketing performance data
  • Ensures a diverse portfolio of publishers is maintained; portfolio contains publishers that specialize in display, social, email, pay per click (PPC) promotion methods with traffic on cost per acquisition / cost per conversion (CPA/CPC) models
  • Ensures that tag management techniques and strategies are implemented and consistent with marketing strategy
  • Executes marketing automation program, including, but not limited to, email marketing campaigns, building landing pages and forms, uploading lists and building segments
  • Ensures campaign budget is on pace; takes action on anomalies
  • Analyzes media spend datasets to create reports gauging how current campaigns are tracking against pre-defined targets and goals; ensures alignment with Company objectives
  • Ensures digital media buying strategy is adapted to a real-time bidding environment
  • Studies and leverages demographic data, consumer profiles and media research tools; develops and recommends media strategies
  • Mentors, coaches and trains Digital Marketing team
  • Stays current on the latest industry technologies, trends and strategies, recommends and implements new technologies
  • Assists employees, vendors and customers by answering questions related to digital marketing
  • Completes work in a timely and accurate manner while providing exceptional customer service
  • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

  • This position requires a minimum of five years of digital marketing or digital media planning experience; advertising agency experience and/or corporate retail experience preferred.
  • Demonstrated expertise negotiating digital ad rates and vendor commissions is required.
  • Proven experience working third party tracking platforms, including, but not limited to, Google AdWords, FBX, DoubleClick or Signal is necessary.
  • Demonstrated experience with social platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as a comprehensive understanding of new media and online marketing trends in a multi-site corporate retail environment is required.
  • Extensive knowledge of analytics and reporting tools is necessary; Google Analytics, YouTube Analytics and Facebook Insights preferred.
  • Experience using DSP and/or other forms of programmatic media buying is required.
  • Advanced knowledge of SEO factors from a technical perspective, including, but not limited to, web strategies designed to maximize organic visits, rankings and overall hits is necessary.
  • Demonstrated understanding of website design best practices is preferred.
  • Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint is necessary.
  • Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign is beneficial.
  • Demonstrated experience gathering data, analyzing situations and making recommendations is necessary.
  • Customer service skills, including the ability to manage and respond to different customer situations while maintaining a positive and friendly attitude are essential.
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate across all levels of the organization, present complex ideas concisely and clearly articulate ideas verbally and in writing is required.
  • The ability to work within a team and serve as a trusted expert for assigned duties is necessary.
  • Proven ability to multi-task and motivate self and others while managing multiple projects and meeting various deadlines simultaneously is required.
  • Maintaining confidentiality, treating others with respect and upholding Company values are key attributes.
  • In addition, organizational and problem solving skills, a can-do attitude, and the ability to adjust to changing requirements are essential.

Educational Requirements:

This position requires a bachelor's degree in business, marketing, finance, digital culture or a related field or equivalent experience; Google AdWords/Analytics Certification is required.

Work Days:

Normal work days are Monday through Friday. Occasional Saturdays and Sundays may be necessary.

Work Hours:

Normal work hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Additional hours may be necessary