Marketing Specialist - eCommerce & Execution

Marketing Specialist - eCommerce & Execution

Paladin has an ongoing contract that has the possibility of going perm for a Jr. to mid-level eCommerce Marketing Specialist.  This role is a fantastic opportunity to join a fun team and advance your skills with rolling out new initiatives!  

This client is looking for someone with 2-5 years of experience.  The right candidate will be skilled in execution on online initiatives and helping throughout the process.  Here will be opportunities t be involved in more strategy down the road.  Our client would ideally like to see candidates who posses a mix of tasks they have been involved in for integrated campaigns preferable within a digital environment.

Location: Candidate can work in Northern Suburbs or in city.  Client is flexible.

Pay Rate: commensurate with experience

Start Date: ASAP or within 2 weeks of notice.

Full Time – 40 hours per week.  Overtime is time and a half

WE OFFER BENEFITS: All contractors working over 30 hours per week are able to enroll is our benefits, which include: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Flex Spending and more.

There is minimal travel to near suburb (Metra accessible)

Company Overview:

This is an exciting time to join a team that is developing new ways for customers to shop online. 

In the past year, this company has re-launched both their eCommerce and mobile commerce sites, launched new award-winning mobile phone apps, garnered a million fans on Facebook, and introduced a 24/7 live chat service that lets online consumers communicate directly with pharmacists.  They are ahead of the game!

eCommerce is a rapidly growing business unit within this organization.  The culture is very entrepreneurial with many opportunities to shape the organization across multiple dimensions and drive the future of this company.  If you want to be part of projects that are game changers in this industry then you want this job!

Job Summary:

The eCommerce Marketing Specialist supports the Ecommerce department by producing effective and compelling marketing campaigns aimed at driving against a specific set of business objectives, as determined by the Marketing Manager.

Job Responsibilities:

• Works closely with Marketing Manager and internal client team to understand designated areas of business in order to identify and implement the best marketing methods and tactics for driving business objectives and marketing goals.


• Collaborates with internal and external creative teams and agencies to manage the creation of various marketing assets to support campaigns, including but not limited to email and site banners, landing pages, offline/store marketing collateral and support, social media and PR to ensure a cohesive marketing plan/look/feel.


• Establishes and maintains a promotion calendar for 1 division of the online business area of the website.


• Writes marketing briefs to communicate the overall objective, strategies and tactics desired to support specific marketing campaigns.


• Uses Omniture to help understanding performance of client website on-site and email channels. Report on and develop plans based on findings.


• Establishes a competitor list and maintains a schedule of their promotions by signing up for emails and doing periodic site audits. Report on trends.


• Collaborates with email, search, SEO, affiliate, social media and mobile channels to develop promotion ideas, optimization ideas and other strategies to drive photo business


• Brainstorms innovative ideas for marketing campaigns.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and at least 2 years’ experience in marketing


• Experience managing more than one project simultaneously


• Experience analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.


• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail


• Experience working in a dynamic environment.


• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Office 2003 or later: Word (for example: creating and modifying text styles, numbering and sorting lists, working with sections and columns, formatting tables, and using templates and using diagrams and drawing tools), Excel (for example: formatting text and borders of cells, working with workbooks and worksheets, using range names, referencing cells, sorting, and auto filtering) and PowerPoint (for example: creating presentations, adding and removing slides, entering and formatting text, applying design templates, modifying masters, inserting graphics and objects, creating handouts).


• Willingness to work in the Chicago (city) and North Suburb (Metra accessible) locations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, or Business Administration


• Experience working in an E-Commerce or digital marketing environment


• At least 2 years online and/or promotional marketing experience


• Email marketing, shopper marketing and/or mobile marketing experience a plus


• Knowledge of Omniture and/or JIRA

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