Archive for July, 2010
Senior Communications Manager (Carrollton TX)
Business Unit
McKesson U.S. Pharmaceutical
City
Carrollton
State
TX
Reference #:
41951
Being big doesn’t mean you shouldn’t think small.
As a Fortune 18 leader, our scope of products and services makes us the largest healthcare services company in the world. But that hasn’t obstructed our view of what matters – creating solutions that empower healthcare professionals to focus on their patients. That’s the power of every McKesson employee – to make a big difference in the small picture. That’s the power to build your future.
Position Description
The Senior Communications Manager leads marketing and communications functions for McKesson Financial Center, one of the largest financial shared services in North America. Reporting to the General Manager, the position plans, structures and executes marketing and communication strategies for a wide range of audiences, including McKesson Financial Center¿s business unit clients, employees and corporate executives. The position serves as a communications thought leader and is a significant collaborator with group management peers.
Key Functions and Responsibilities
Evolve perceptions of McKesson Financial Center by advancing the perceived value of services and results
– Develop marketing plans for services (e.g., eDocument, Customer Payments, Enterprise Data Management and T&E)
– Create service positioning and produce communication materials
– Measure stakeholder perceptions, identify opportunities and present recommendations
Extend the business impact of client partnerships
– Elevate client dialogue by effectively structuring and producing compelling materials including Quarterly Business Reviews, strategic updates and ongoing communications
– Develop client communication strategies and create supporting materials
Partner with McKesson Financial Center service leaders to develop, position and implement communication strategies for their services
– Define key services and document business landscape, client needs, service features and benefits in a useable service manual
– Define service positioning, develop marketing plan and produce marketing materials
Manage executive communication strategies
– Identify influencing opportunities, create communication plans and produce materials to support General Manager and senior leaders
– Establish executive understanding of enterprise leadership contributions by implementing Executive Briefing strategy and developing update communications
Reinforce McKesson Financial Center positioning that is readily recognized by clients, McKesson executives and employees
Foster positive employee energy and rally support for strategies
– Develop and manage employee communication plans
– Create communications regarding employee feedback and McKesson Financial Center objectives
– Implement quarterly business updates and provide department leaders with materials to engage employees
– Produce and deliver weekly Carrollton in Action employee communication
– Serve as communications leader for all onsite functional groups
– Create and host department meeting events
– Support executive town halls
Maintain and structure access to commonly used communications tools such as a template library and communication guidelines
Coordinate special events and projects such as facility-wide events
Expected Outcomes
Executives regard McKesson Financial Center as providing high value and results
Clients regard McKesson Financial Center as a valued business partner
Employees are highly engaged and support McKesson Financial Center strategies
Executives, clients and employees understand what McKesson Financial Center provides
Minimum Requirements
5+ years marketing experience
Strategic thinking; ability to translate complex concepts into meaningful content
Expert collaboration skills
Excellent writing skills, including editing content submitted by others
Experience creating graphic layouts and production-ready materials
Expert skills in PowerPoint and Word
Hands-on experience creating finished pieces using Illustrator, PhotoShop (preferred) and Flash (preferred)
Adept project management skills with capability to lead multiple, concurrent initiatives
* Candidates are expected to demonstrate a portfolio of their work
Additional Knowledge & Skills
Project management experience
Education
4-year Business degree with emphasis in marketing and communications or equivalent experience
Physical Requirements
General Office Demands
Moderate travel with overnight stays
Company Statement
McKesson offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.
McKesson is everywhere in healthcare. We offer a wealth of opportunity for individuals with a desire to make a difference in providing industry-leading, integrated healthcare services and solutions. Individuals with the passion to be a part of our entire continuum of patient-focused care. It’s you and McKesson – empowering healthcare. Visit http://www.mckesson.com/careers for more information.
As an equal opportunity employer, McKesson Corporation unites the talents and contributions of all to advance the power of healthcare.
Agency Statement
No agencies please.
Marketing Campaign Mgr (SOHO-HP, Plano TX)
Marketing Campaign Manager-394433
Description
Description:
SUMMARY – The Marketing Campaign Manager plays a key leadership role in the HP Direct demand generation organization. HP Direct is the award-winning consumer and SOHO direct ecommerce business for HP in the U.S. We are seeking an idea champion who can deliver a new perspective on how we plan, integrate and execute campaigns to have maximum resonance with potential customers & deliver best experience from campaign through to store.
Responsibilities:
•Lead seasonal planning of marketing campaigns across disciplines to deliver an integrated campaign plan; ensure aligned with plans of merchandising, web, call center, and customer segment teams
•Leverage HP initiatives and campaigns to maximize impact for ecommerce
•Leverage and negotiate with interal and external partners to extend customer acquisition opportunities and maximize utilize of external funding
•Investigate, recommend and negotiate new marketing opportunities
•Operate as subject matter expert on effective & compelling creative design & messaging, media formats & technologies, etc.
•Direct, inspire & empower creative team in concept and execution of best-in-class marketing campaigns & assets
•Ensure optimization of digital mediums and utilization of best practices/new technologies
Qualifications
•Candidate must have a bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business Administration or related field — MBA or graduate degree preferred
•Minimum of 5 years experience with integrated marketing campaigns, preferably in ecommerce environment, and 7-10 years of marketing experience
•Results-oriented self-starter with strong interpersonal and leadership skills
•Agency experience
•Proven ability with building strong relationships with partners and internal stakeholders
•Experience with developing proposals and building marketing partnerships
•Advanced knowledge of marketing medium formats, particularly digital
•Strong team orientation & commitment to delivery
•Excellent project management skills – with ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with ease, while maximizing both efficiency and quality
Desired:
•Experience in technology industry
Job – Marketing
Primary Location – United States-Idaho – Boise
Other Locations – United States-Texas – Plano, United States-Texas – Houston, United States-New Mexico – Rio Rancho, United States-Washington – Vancouver, United States-Colorado – Fort Collins
Schedule – Full-time
Job Type – Experienced
Shift – Day Job
Travel – Yes, 25% of the time
Contract Marketing Professional (Plano TX)
Contract Marketing Professional
Granite Properties
Job Snapshot
Location: 5601 Granite Parkway Suite 800
Plano, TX 75024 (Map it! )
Employee Type: Contractor
Industry: Real Estate – Property Mgt
Manages Others: No
Job Type: Marketing Real Estate
Experience: Not Specified
Post Date: 7/6/2010
Description
Granite Properties is a diversified real estate investment and management company with offices in Dallas, Denver, and Houston.
Granite is interested in establishing a partnership and or contract employment relationship with a marketing professional to:
Review and assess our marketing strategy at the Corporate and Property level and make recommendations for improvement.
Establish consistent marketing strategy/branding standards across the company, cities and properties.
Make recommendations relating to website design, social media, announcements, articles, printed materials and presentation materials.
Provide guidance and communication to local marketing efforts including events, sponsorships, industry involvement, and gift campaigns.
Implement and execute the approved recommendations.
Determine the volume of work associated with marketing related activities to determine if the need requires full-time employment or would be better suited as a consultant(s) partnership.
These activities are part of Granite’s ongoing marketing strategy and are focused on identifying opportunities for improvement and consistent brand messaging. The audience for our marketing efforts is broad and includes clients, brokers, vendors, tenants, business partnerships and employees.
Requirements
SCOPE OF WORK
This individual will help plan and implement, marketing and product development programs in support of the company mission, vision, and facility goals. This position establishes effective working relationships with all employees and vendors. In addition, the role is responsible for directing and coordinating marketing activities, develops and directs implementations, and ensures compliance of all company standards.
Maintain consistent brand management across the company, cities and departments through branding guidelines and marketing leadership.
Plan and administer the company’s annual marketing plan to include innovative marketing campaigns for each city.
Plan and administer the company’s overall marketing budget.
Oversee internet marketing: maintain website content & design, oversee tweets & blogs including managing the content, creating/maintaining Granite’s personality, and ensuring consistency across all medias.
Oversee traditional marketing: conduct marketing campaigns, oversee events, sponsorships and industry involvements on behalf of all groups, manage gift campaigns, and ensure consistency with other marketing efforts.
Create marketing campaigns at the building levels, working with PM & Leasing to ensure each building highlights their amenities.
Oversee corporate communication activities including public relations.
Administer marketing database of contact information for use in marketing campaigns.
Continually analyze other real estate companies to stay relevant and ensure presence in the industry.
Senior Communications Manager
Senior Communications Manager
Job Code: 41951
POSTED: Jul 05
Salary: Open
Location: Carrollton, Texas
Employer: McKesson Corporation
Type: Full Time – Experienced
Category: Marketing: Communications Required Education: 4 Year Degree
Employer Information
About McKesson Corporation
At McKesson, we bring together clinical knowledge, process expertise, technology, and the resources of a Fortune 14 company to fundamentally change the cost and quality of healthcare.
Job Description
The Senior Communications Manager leads marketing and communications functions for our company, one of the largest financial shared services in our North America division. Reporting to the General Manager, the position plans, structures and executes marketing and communication strategies for a wide range of audiences, including the Financial Center’s business unit clients, employees and corporate executives. The position serves as a communications thought leader and is a significant collaborator with group management peers.
Key Functions and Responsibilities
• Evolve perceptions of the Financial Center by advancing the perceived value of services and results o Develop marketing plans for services (e.g., eDocument, Customer Payments, Enterprise Data Management and T&E) o Create service positioning and produce communication materials o Measure stakeholder perceptions, identify opportunities and present recommendations
• Extend the business impact of client partnerships o Elevate client dialogue by effectively structuring and producing compelling materials including Quarterly Business Reviews, strategic updates and ongoing communications o Develop client communication strategies and create supporting materials
• Partner with the Financial Center service leaders to develop, position and implement communication strategies for their services o Define key services and document business landscape, client needs, service features and benefits in a useable service manual o Define service positioning, develop marketing plan and produce marketing materials
• Manage executive communication strategies o Identify influencing opportunities, create communication plans and produce materials to support General Manager and senior leaders o Establish executive understanding of enterprise leadership contributions by implementing Executive Briefing strategy and developing update communications
• Reinforce the Financial Center positioning that is readily recognized by clients, executives and employees
• Foster positive employee energy and rally support for strategies
o Develop and manage employee communication plans
o Create communications regarding employee feedback and the Financial Center objectives
o Implement quarterly business updates and provide department leaders with materials to engage employees
o Produce and deliver weekly employee communication
o Serve as communications leader for all onsite functional groups
o Create and host department meeting events
o Support executive town halls
• Maintain and structure access to commonly used communications tools such as a template library and communication guidelines
• Coordinate special events and projects such as facility-wide events
Expected Outcomes
• Executives regard the Financial Center as providing high value and results
• Clients regard the Financial Center as a valued business partner
• Employees are highly engaged and support the Financial Center strategies
• Exeives, clients and employees understand what the Financial Center provides
Expected Outcomes • Executives regard the Financial Center as providing high value and results • Clients regard the Financial Center as a valued business partner • Employees are highly engaged and support the Financial Center strategies • Executives, clients and employees understand what the Financial Center provides
NOTES: Local Residents Preferred (No Relo)
Requirements
• Bachelors degree required, marketing degree preferred
• 5+ years marketing experience
Strategic thinking; ability to translate complex concepts into meaningful content • Expert collaboration skills • Excellent writing skills, including editing content submitted by others • Experience creating graphic layouts and production-ready materials • Expert skills in PowerPoint and Word • Hands-on experience creating finished pieces using Illustrator, PhotoShop (preferred) and Flash (preferred) • Adept project management skills with capability to lead multiple, concurrent initiatives • Candidates are expected to demonstrate a portfolio of their work
Digital Marketing Practitioner (Dallas TX)
Digital Marketing Practitioner
Elevate your Career.
Join the Group.
Acquity Group has a proven track record of developing tailored solutions that leverage our breadth of expertise and deep understanding within strategy, design and technology to help companies enable their digital channel. Acquity Group possesses not only the knowledge to conceptualize and build our clients brand, but the experience needed to elevate their business.
Headquartered in Chicago, IL we have offices in Irvine & Los Angeles, CA; Overland Park, KS; Scottsdale, AZ and Dallas, TX serving many leading brands including United Airlines, General Motors, Kohl’s, Motorola, Shimano and American Express. For more information, visit http://www.acquitygroup.com.
Position Description
We’re looking for a Digital Marketing Practitioner to provide strategic and creative direction in the development, execution and management of digital marketing ideas and solutions for a variety of clients. This individual will have experience working in an interactive agency or been client side facing dealing with AOR). The Digital Marketing Practitioner will be a conceptual and strategic thinker who is able to meet business demands and objectives by crafting and implementing innovative, practical and measurable interactive solutions.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Serve as thought leader in aligning digital marketing strategy with a client’s business goals and objectives and customer needs / behaviors.
Ascertain a client’s category, competitive set, brand and business goals/objectives.
Work with team to transform strategic vision into a tactical delivery plan.
Extend client relationships into more actionable and value-added services.
Lead the design and development of digital measurement and optimization solutions, guiding clients in defining measurement and testing approaches, planning, execution and evaluation.
Identify, evaluate, secure and manage external digital marketing resources to execute strategy
Drive digital marketing optimization process for digital campaigns leveraging multiple channels, including online advertising networks, messaging, paid search, email marketing, social and mobile.
Thorough understanding of digital channel within multi-channel sales model, including social media, SEO, SEM, media buying, creative development, and online lead generation
Drive ongoing optimization of site performance. Drive strategic use of web analytics, multivariate testing tools, behavioral targeting, site research and competitive analysis to optimize goals of B2C and B2B websites
Analyze and assess the performance of campaigns and translate quantitative and qualitative data into recommendations and plans for revising the campaign strategy
Responsible for management and overall quality of marketing campaigns and programs
Drive thought leadership for emerging media, trends and technologies.
-Excellent collaborative skills, proficient in working within complex, matrixed organizations
Qualifications
A minimum of 5 years of experience in Marketing Agency or Interactive Consultancy, including leadership roles in client engagements and project management
Experience working with Fortune 500 clients
Strong client relations and thought-leadership abilities.
Proven ability to develop and managed discovery activities including stakeholder interviews, user inquiry, website and business performance metrics audits.
Hands-on experience with project deliverables
Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Strong understanding and application of Web technologies
Travel
50% travel flexibility – more or less depending on project; candidate should be comfortable with travel and overtime as client commitment requires.
Competitive Benefits & Compensation
Acquity Group offers excellent compensation and benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), short and long-term disability, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D), paid, flexible vacation and holidays.
In addition to a competitive base salary Acquity Group offers a unique variable compensation plan which provides additional reward to employees that demonstrate outstanding performance.
* Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.
* Acquity Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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