[CLOSED] ACCOUNT SUPERVISOR – (HALIFAX, NS)

APPLY: http://www.bullhornreach.com/job/2085636_account-supervisor-halifax-ns-canada

Incredible advertising agency in Halifax is looking for an inspiring, passionate account supervisor. You live to understand the consumer – and find the sweet spot where your brand reaches them in the most meaningful way.

As an intermediate to senior level position within the account service group this person’s role is to demonstrate leadership, managerial skills and provide exceptional executional support on any and all aspects of their respective assignments. In addition, the expectation is that this person will be making a significant and on-going contribution to the overall “product” of the organization both through innovative thinking and problem solving. As the principal day-to-day client representative of the agency, this person will manage clients businesses and their projects from start to finish delivering strategic campaigns and programs that are on time, and on budget. And as the key point of contact on your business, you will liaise with all teams – creative, media, interactive and act as lead on all integrated programs. The role is a great opportunity for an existing Account Manager or Executive looking to take a more leadership oriented position within an agency. Huge growth opportunity.

Competencies

• Outstanding communicator who is articulate, positive, and personable and presents a professional image.
• Resourceful and not afraid to tackle new tasks bringing a customer service attitude to every job you take on.
• A keen ability to “listen” for, analyze and communicate the client’s needs to the agency.
• A stickler for detail
• Ability to work as a team leader, and inspire your colleagues
• Excellent presentation and inter-personal communication skills, both oral and written
• Exceptional organizational and time management capabilities

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for the internal administration of the account including:
• Assists and supports account management staff
• Maintains a current knowledge of the client’s business in order to direct and contribute to their marketing and advertising efforts. Uses this knowledge to anticipate needs.
• Supervises the development of the advertising activities in keeping with client’s objectives and budgets.
• Preparing and executing new business pitches when required – working closely with senior agency members when required

Required Skills

• This person needs to be unbelievably good at developing value driven client relationships.

• Solid computer skills which must include Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• 3-5 years experience in account management in an advertising environment

[FILLED] Research Analyst – (Saint John, NB)

APPLY: http://www.bullhornreach.com/job/2073928_research-analyst-saint-john-nb-canada

Research Analyst

We Are Civilized

From the founders of Revolution Strategy and Talons of Venice, our latest venture is a digital publishing startup with a different approach to news and social content. We’re not just a source of information. We’re an ambitious, open-minded creative community. Passion and curiosity drive everything we do. We work smart, explore the world and dig into issues and trends. Our content elevates perspectives, breaks down barriers and presents information in an engaging, entertaining way. We’re here to change the conversation. We are Civilized.

We’re looking for a creative, strategic person to join our marketing communications team. We want someone with an obsessive desire for learning and digging into social and cultural trends. You have a strong grasp on conducting secondary research online and experience with conducting primary research.

What you will do:

• Perform research (including listening to audio clips, preparing document requests, and reading through documents) as assigned
• Assist the Civilized content team with research projects, as needed
• Conduct secondary searches to inform internal and external communications
• Use analytic tools to identify the drivers of advocacy challenges, hypothesize solutions and isolate differences between conventional and advanced practice
• Contextualize and interpret research findings within larger ideas, topics, and trends
• Provide excellent written and graphical summaries of key findings; perform in-depth data analysis when necessary
• Other duties as required

What qualities you have and what you have done:

• 2 – 4 years experience as a research analyst
• Bachelor’s’ Degree (or equivalent 4-year university degree) in a relevant discipline such as Business, Economics, Market Research, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering or Science
• Passionate about the news industry, digital media and current social and cultural trends
• A high degree of intensity, follow-through, and collegiality, a desire and passion to learn
• Superior analytical and presentation skills
• Superior communication skills, including writing and editing
• Interest in public affairs and social trends
• Excellent data base management skills
• Ability to think creatively and strategically under pressure
• Ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Self motivated, with attention to detail and flexibility

All applications will be treated confidentially. SwanStaffing thanks all applicants for their interest, but only those selected to continue in the selection process will be contacted.

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[FILLED] Digital Marketing Strategist – (Toronto, ON)

http://www.bullhornreach.com/job/2002916_digital-marketing-strategist-toronto-on

A little about you

You are a naturally curious individual. Digital marketing is something you eat, live, and breath mainly due to your fascination with the medium and what it means to the evolution of the marketing industry.
Your tolerance for change may rub some people the wrong way, but you know it’s part of what makes you great at what you do. When asked how you came to the decision you’ve made, you’re excited to share not only the data you’ve uncovered, but also the qualitative research that you’ve used to help form your opinion.
You’ve been working on your craft for more than half a decade, and have mentored a team of digital marketers that look to you for guidance and support. Your career is now at a point that you feel ready to bring these thoughts and opinions to a new stage.

A little about my Client

This agency has gone through its own evolution in recent years. Their roots in design and development have grown with the pace of the industry itself. They believe that their clients digital world needs to intimately connect with the journey each of their unique customers take. This belief has driven them to invest in a number of skillsets dedicated to understanding what it is that drives our clients customers to make the decisions they do, and ensure their strategy is aligned to help them make that decision.

Where you come in

We want your enthusiasm, conviction, and dedication to this medium. Our clients need your leadership to steer the direction of their digital marketing. We need your mind to make sure we know exactly what is working, and more importantly not working for each of our clients.

What you love doing

● Working with clients to understand their business and their objectives

● Consuming research to understand the mindset and journey of their customers

● Analyzing available data to identify and support marketing initiatives

● Collaborate with others to create a holistic marketing strategies

● Designing and delivering marketing campaigns to achieve measurable goals

● Working closely with clients to simplify and communicate what success looks like in their digital world.

Tools you love to use

• Customer surveys
• Focus group data
• User experience studies
• Google Analytics
• Facebook insights
• Facebook Power Editor
• Adwords Editor
• WebMaster Tools
• Google apps

Core competencies
To succeed in this position you must be able to:

• Work on the fly: this industry moves quick and plans change rapidly. Your critical thinking, time management, and adaptability skills will come in handy.
• Communicate effectively: you will work closely with clients and our team. Efficient and accurate communication is key
• Be proactive: we love people who can predict, prevent, or plan for future activities.
• Get committed: you will demonstrate ownership and be accountable as others will depend on you. Your work ethic and enthusiasm will be contagious
• Share: your skills, knowledge and experiences are invaluable to our team and clients. Share them.

[FILLED] Strategic Planner (CRM) – (Nashville)

This global agency is looking for a CRM focused Strategic Planner to lead strategy with one of their key automotive clients. The incumbent is a mid-senior level professional with experience in developing strategic and tactical plans. He/she will be charged with pushing forward CRM strategy at agency and the client.

APPLY: http://www.bullhornreach.com/job/566771_strategic-planner-crm-nashville-tn

Duties and Responsibilities

Reporting to the Director of Strategy, this role will work closely with Account Management and Creative to set the direction and strategy for CRM, for one of our key automotive clients:

• Use strategic planning expertise to interpret client objectives/requests and to focus and frame problem solving tactics, as well as, to inspire the creative process
• Collaborate with the analytics discipline, to uncover fresh and innovative insights/business opportunities which drive the strategic and tactical planning process
• Validate, correlate and connect insights in to multidimensional “stories” which identify significant opportunities and fuel inspirational strategies
• Lead consumer insight, strategy, and communication channel plan development (inc. data/BTL/ATL/creative/tech/Digital) which deliver leading customer experiences and, ultimately business and marketing performance
• Ability to travel frequently and meet with client stakeholders to create relationships, drive through deliverables, promote discussion and develop awareness
• Ensure all deliverables, internally and externally, are met in an efficient and timely manner. Identify opportunities to constantly improve the quality of thinking applied to client business.
• Develop and implement standardised strategic planning tools to foster consistency over time and across projects

Required Skills and Competencies

• Minimum of 5+ year’s experience in CRM, planning, strategic planning and related communications experience
• Creative Thinker
• Talented and engaging presenter
• Automotive experience highly desirable and preferred
• Marketing background and a experience in analytics desirable
• Post-secondary education
• Highly organized with an ability to work under tight deadlines and shifting priorities
• Strong client facing skills and the ability to communicate with confidence
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

The agency will relocate the right candidate.

Only those candidates deemed suitable for this role will be contacted. Thanks for your interest.

[FILLED] Social Media/Digital Strategic Planner – (Budapest)

Owner: Glenn Swan | glenn@swanstaffing.com
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Salary/Pay Rate: Commensurate with experience.
Employment type: Full Time

A wonderful opportunity to join a world class agency on a global account in one of the world’s most beautiful locations. Huge opportunity to be part of a truly global piece of business.

We are looking for a Digital Strategic Planner who will work with teams to provide:

• lnsight discovery
• Digital strategy
• Trend analysis
• Success metrics

This position is responsible for the planning of both digital platforms and digital programs. They will play an active role as a subject matter expert and develop company-wide perspectives on user trends, the use of emerging media, social media and new digital services.

As a Social Media/Digital Strategic Planner You Will:

• Define recommended approach and execution of strategy and strategic planning projects for the client
• Contribute to collective strategy and planning practices
• Identify marketing problems, perform research, and analyze trends/results to determine strategic implications
• Collaborate on proposals and pitches
• Develop ideas and connections that can be brought to clients that show an understanding of the digital channel and its users
• Stay current on heuristics, best practices, users insights, digital trends and amazing digital experiences
• Proactively identify new opportunities for client growth
• Develops each community through content and conversation for the client.
• Responsible for active moderation across social channels (Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter).
• Develops recommendations for updates and optimizations of content or functionality based on the needs of the community and industry best practices.
• Inspire innovation and great work; oversee campaign and project implementation
• Create measurable value and ROI for the client; ensure a high-level of client satisfaction
• Monitors and interprets cultural and social trends relevant to the client’s business – online
• Regular travel will required to the UK

Your Capabilities (4+ years relevant experience)

• 4+ years of digital experience (planning or strategy experience preferred)
• Passionate about digital
• Strong understanding of integrated advertising
• Strong understanding of brands and branding as a discipline
• Experience working collaboratively with other agencies and clients
• Very self motivated
• Likes to work with a small team nimbly and rapidly
• Expertise in identifying and forecasting emerging trends in the industry
• A self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit with vision and leadership to enact change within the agency and the industry
• Ability to convert and implement strategic plans into tactical ones
• Proven ability to develop and maintain strong professional relationships with clients, colleagues and vendors
• Ability to integrate diverse viewpoints and opinions
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills; captivating presenter and great listener

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required

Remuneration

• Relocation is available
• Pay is competitive.

[ON HOLD] Account Director (Integrated) – (Toronto)

Wow! Great opportunity to work on a Global brand on the global stage. This person MUST be willing to travel to London (UK) for 1-2 months initially to train on this business. This role is located in Toronto, but will work closely with the London, UK office and also with the AD in Toronto. The interview process is aggressive – please reply ASAP as we’ll be setting up initial interviews in Toronto with the UK team on June 8/9.

The Account Director will lead and build an Account, Creative and Planning team responsible for the management and delivery of exemplary integrated marketing campaigns that best suit the client’s needs. The Account Director will also develop this piece of business, creating and implementing plans for expanding its scope.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for the National launch of ground breaking new merchandising for the client
• Works with the client’s Brand and Merchandising teams to develop a yearlong strategic in store brand campaign to support the national launch of a major new category to the business.
• Delivers a variety of other strategic projects such as loyalty/gifting programs, retail design briefs, customer journey analysis etc.
• Oversees the national promotional calendar campaigns and tactical programs. Identifies strategic opportunities for growth of this new piece of business, including branding & promotional opportunities .
• Develops strong partnerships with the Client & Client’s roster of agencies.
• Works with some of North America & Europe’s leading food photographers to create award winning food photography that inspires decision making.
• Responsible for  building a team in Toronto
• Develop a strong relationship with Client’s Partners (across multiple levels and multiple countries).
• Demonstrates a solid understanding of retail POS in order to apply insight and understanding to positively impact the business
• Develop strong partnerships with our core suppliers, (e.g. Digital POS)
• Leads and inspires the creative and account teams to ensure consistent, timely and excellent delivery of projects.
• Work in partnership with Planning to create insights that drive creative excellence.
• Ensures correct resources are available for ongoing projects and allocates projects according to experience.
• Provides creative and strategic marketing input to client presentations
• Represents the agency at client meetings.
• Conducts post project reviews and evaluation on all relevant projects to ascertain future project potential.
• Responsible for managing and reporting day-to-day costs of projects through effective financial planning and management.
• Identifies and leverage’s all additional revenue opportunities within existing client base.
• Identifies and leverage’s additional revenue opportunities from within Client’s supplier base.
• Works with “The Agency’s” Planners, Research Agencies, Client’s Business Intelligence Team and our Marketing Clients to drive the development of strategic initiatives within and outside of the Marketing Calendar.
• Effectively communicates across the team, maintaining a motivating and positive environment and ensuring outstanding team work.
• Is engaged in and supports the brand planning and calendar planning processes
• Works closely with New Business Team in the identification, development and implementation of proactive value-adding projects delivered for our marketing clients.
• Manages and develops direct report in line with the agency’s performance management methods.
• Plays a broader role across the client service team in coaching and development of all team members.
• Identifies and leverage’s all additional revenue opportunities within existing Client base.

Required Skills and Competencies

• 2+ years as an Account Director in an agency environment with a good understanding of the retail sector
• Post-secondary education in a relevant field, or equivalent experience
• Able to think strategically and is a solutions-focused thinker with broad industry knowledge
• Excellent presentation skills (writing and delivering)
• Good time management, people and project management skills
• Able to express ideas with clarity, confidence and logical reasoning
• Excellent team leadership and line management skills; a strong team player with a belief in coaching and team empowerment for success
• Strong communication skills
• Experience of working on large scale merchandising and photography projects is an asset
• Strong client facing skills and the ability to communicate with confidence
• Highly motivated and highly organized with an ability to work independently, under tight deadlines and shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Creative thinker – with a proven track record in delivering innovation
• Knowledge of retail market
• Experience working with blue chip clients
• Strong attention to detail, consistently striving to ensure the overall quality of the company’s success
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Professional and presentable with a strong business acumen
• A passion for delivering great creative work, developing excellent relationships with an internal creative team and a good eye for judging creative work
• Express ideas with clarity, confidence and logical reasoning

For more information about our recruiting company we invite you to visit:  http://www.swanstaffing.com/

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Thanks Glenn

glenn@swanstaffing.com

[FILLED] Web Analytics Strategist CONTRACT – (Toronto)

Company: A world class Technology/Interactive professional services company – located in downtown Toronto.

Skill and Role Summary:
This person needs to have good Omniture implementation experience. Good communication and organizational skills. Should have the ability to work independently and be able to improve existing processes.

Main duties and responsibilities:
Will work with stakeholders in:
• Providing tagging assistance.
• UAT of tagged sites
• Building on improving existing process and fixing existing implementations.

Requirements:  Client facing skills, experience in user journeys, improving processes, leader, Omniture implementation skills.

Rate: $60 – 70/hr
Length of Contract:  March 7th to May 31st, 2011

If this is you or you think you have someone that might fit the requirements, please reach out to me soon. This is an urgent assignment.

For more information about our recruiting company we invite you to visit:  http://www.swanstaffing.com/

To see all the opportunities that we’re actively working on:  https://glennanddenise.wordpress.com/

Thanks Glenn

glenn@swanstaffing.com

[FILLED] Research Manager – (Toronto)

An entrepreneurial, spirited market research client of mine here in Toronto  is looking for a market research professional with superior analytical skills who possesses a passion for research and insight generation! The successful candidate will have a demonstrated track record of excellence, an ability to work independently and think strategically.

Need to have’s:

• 5 years relevant experience in the market research industry with at least 3 of those years on the supplier-side.
• Bachelors degree, preferable in a quantitative field of study (e.g. mathematics, statistics, engineering, B.Comm) or a research-oriented degree (e.g. social sciences)
• Experience with and/or exposure to online & offline quantitative research methodologies:o Research design, questionnaire design, probability sampling, exploratory vs. causal research, segmentation/cluster analysis, predictive modeling, multivariate and factor analysis, designed experiments (A/B Testing), statistical significance testing

Nice to have’s:

• Experience with qualitative research
• Knowledge of SPSS
• Bilingual (F&E)

For more information about our recruiting company we invite you to visit:  http://www.swanstaffing.com/

To see all the opportunities that we’re actively working on:  https://glennanddenise.wordpress.com/

Thanks Glenn

glenn@swanstaffing.com

Market Research Project Manager (2) – (Toronto)

I am currently looking for 2 Project Managers in Toronto for a world class market research company. Incredibly well respected, growth oriented company that has been winning business consistently for the last 3 years. Both PM roles are as a result of business growth.

As Project Manager, you will execute all logistical aspects of a brand strategy project.  Ideally, you have a deep understanding of how to institute efficient work flows, are proactive in communications and have superior attention to detail.  The right candidate will be confident, motivated, willing to roll up their sleeves, extremely organized and able to juggle many details at once. Ideally this person will have 2 – 4 years experience in a market research environment.

Experience in either qualitative or quantitative research would be acceptable.

Please email your resume in confidence to: glenn@swanstaffing.com

Thanks Glenn

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Project Manager (Market Research) – FILLED

I am looking for an extremely capable, hands-on Project Manager to take charge of all aspects of implementing a brand strategy project, which may involve multiple market research methodologies. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of how to institute efficient work flows, be proactive in communications with researchers and clients and have superior attention to detail. It is critical that the right candidate have demonstrated interest and ability in constantly elevating and improving processes and embraces change.
The right candidate will be confident, motivated, willing to roll up their sleeves, extremely organized and able to juggle many details at once.

Experience:
• University degree in a related field; current enrollment or interest in obtaining PMP designation considered an asset
• 3+ yrs of solid project management experience; specific market research/ marketing experience will be considered an asset
• Outsourcing or supplier management experience
• Must be motivated by owning executional side of project management
• Strong problem solver with sound troubleshooting skills
• Thrives in fast-paced environment and can comfortably work with finite deadlines and multiple demands

Please email resume in confidence to glenn@swanstaffing.com

Thanks Glenn
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