B2B Channel Marketing Professional (6mths Month Fixed Term Contract)

Job description

Job Purpose and Summary

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Marketing Professional to work closely with the Sales Channels to drive the delivery of the B2B Channel marketing activity in the second half of 2016 and the first quarter of 2017.

What we give

With Canon, you'll get the support and encouragement you need to grow, from people who share your ambition. We'll invest in your professional development to help you learn and progress in your role with us. You'll find leaders who give you the freedom to explore new things and a team where knowledge is shared openly.

Acting as a key interface between B2B Marketing and B2B Sales Channels, you will enable effective marketing engagement to optimise sales effectiveness through ownership and full use of the channel communications infrastructure.  This includes ownership of delivering optimum content through a diverse communications infrastructure of weekly newsletters, monthly B2B marketing update presentations, regular webex’s, marketing podcasts, sales and marketing forums, sales enablement platforms (PACE, PartnerNet), internal social media channels and marcoms platforms.

Further responsibilities will be to drive and support key channel programmes such as sales incentives, demand generation campaigns, sales enablement platform management and development, project management of marketing led events, and ownership of relationships with key strategic Public Sector organisations.

You will be a subject matter expert on the specific needs of Sales, Partners and the internal Indirect channel, enabling the wider marketing department to deliver relevant, effective activity and communications. 

You will own the CUK&I Partner Programme, localise the European Partner Programme as required for the local market, and enable the channel to optimise the benefits of this programme through education, sharing of collateral, and issuing Partner Programme collateral directly to Partners.  Your responsibilities will also include liaison with Canon Europe to influence the development of the European programme, and your NSO counterparts to share best practice. 

Additional day to day responsibilities will include liaison with Europe regarding the launch of a new Partner Portal and the creation and distribution of a monthly price list for the Indirect Channel. 

You will ensure regular Marketing attendance, either personally or through co-ordination of wider Marketing team, within channel sales meetings to ensure sales are aware of all available marketing initiatives to support optimum sales effectiveness, and to capture and feedback relevant Sales and customer insights, making appropriate recommendations to marketing management as to how marketing can improve sales productivity and effectiveness.

What we ask

We need people who can achieve the exceptional by working collaboratively, who have the courage to risk new ways of doing things and the ability to see the world the way their customers see it. We're looking for creative problem-solvers like you, someone who can ensure Canon stays ahead in an ever-changing world.

The successful candidate must be customer  focused, commercially driven and a highly motivated self starter.  You will be a team player who can form strong trust based relationships across the organisation, and capable of leading projects. You will need excellent communication skills at all levels, proven project management experience, and tbe confident with data and data analysis.
The ideal candidate will have a marketing degree or CIM diploma, and marketing experience, preferably in a sales / channel facing role.  We are keen to support you in your continued development and aspiration to deliver marketing excellence.

You will need

We are looking for someone who is passionate about delivering exceptional customer experience, and driving commercial success through optimised sales and marketing alignment, communication and collaboration. The role provides the perfect opportunity for you to demonstrate your breadth of excellent multi channel communication skills through ownership of the marketing into sales communications infrastructure. Your day to day tasks will provide ample opportunity to demonstrate your planning and organising expertise, attention to detail and excel/data analysis skills. But importantly, as a key strategic role in the B2B Marketing group, this role will enable you to apply your strategic thinking through the consolidation of channel insights into recommendations and programmes designed to drive sales effectiveness and achieve company targets and objectives. This is an ideal role for an experienced marketer looking to take their next career step into a role where they will be responsible for driving sales effectiveness for tangible commercial impact

Further Information

Salary - £36,724 pro rata +5% Bonus (  pro rata 6 months bonus)

Location: Reigate, Surrey

Closing date: 9 December 2016 - please apply as soon as possible.

Key Benefits

25 days holiday pro rata

Free Car Parking

Company Pension Scheme

Life Cover for those in the Pension Scheme

No Agencies please

Canon is enriching lives and businesses in incredible new ways. You can play a part in shaping the future of a company that’s strong, ambitious and considerate, where people do great things together. You can expect the exceptional and achieve the exceptional, with the world's best imaging company. 

Expect the Exceptional.