Channel Marketing Specialist - Two Chicks With A Side Hustle

At Kensington, we pride ourselves on an entrepreneurial culture that empowers us to think creatively, share our thoughts, collaborate, and voice our opinions. It’s how we’ve innovated, inspired, led, learned, and succeeded for 40 years. Headquartered in Burlingame, California, Kensington is a division of ACCO Brands (NYSE: ACCO), one of the world’s largest designers, marketers, and manufacturers of branded academic, consumer and business products, sold in more than 100 countries across the globe.

Job Summary

As a Channel Marketing Specialist at Kensington, you will be pivotal in orchestrating, and managing the execution of our Channel marketing strategies in support of our channel partners. Our partners consist of Distributors, National Service Providers (NSP), Value Added Resellers (VAR), Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and Office Commercial partners. The ideal candidate for this role possesses a natural curiosity and a keen desire to gain experience in Partner/Channel Marketing, coupled with a passion for contributing to the success of our partners.

Responsibilities

Promotional Campaign Development & Management: Collaborate with Channel and Marketing team members to plan, create, and execute channel marketing campaigns, including promotions, contests, trainings, and events, with ongoing performance assessment and optimization.

Partner Relationship Management: Actively participate in partner planning meetings and support marketing needs for partners like Dell.com, Synnex, Zones, Connection, and Office Commercial.
Partner Portal Operations: Manage day-to-day upkeep of the partner portal, upload trainings and resources, swapping out banners, and assisting partners with login or point redemption issues as needed.
Partner Portal Development: Craft and maintain partner brand pages as needed within the Partner Portal.

Email Marketing: Design and implement targeted email campaigns to support product launches and partner programs.
Content Syndication Management: Oversee content syndication providers, ensuring timely and accurate product feed and catalogues updates.
Content Syndication: Manage content syndication providers and make necessary updates to product catalogues.

Partner Communication: Efficiently manage the partner email inbox, ensuring timely responses to partner inquiries.
Creative Collaboration: Liaise with creative vendors for the production of marketing materials like flyers, brochures, and banners.
Budget Management: Oversee channel budgets, invoicing, and reporting on financial discrepancies and outcomes. This is inclusive of creating and receiving purchase orders and ensuring monthly reconciliation.

Ad-hoc Responsibilities: Undertake additional duties as required and assigned.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Business or Marketing preferred
2 – 4 years of experience in sales or marketing role.

Exceptional communication and writing skills.
Strong multitasking ability, capable of managing multiple projects under tight deadlines.
Acute attention to detail and independence in consistently delivering quality work.

Solid organizational skills, with a focus on time management and prioritization.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
Experience with design tools (Photoshop, Illustrator), CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce), and marketing automation tools (e.g., Pardot) are a plus.

Proficient in data analysis and marketing analytics tools are highly preferred.

Salary Range: $65,000 – $75,000

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About Us:

You know our brands. You love our brands. You just may not know they are ours.

If you have touched a PowerA® gaming controller, a Five Star® notebook, a Swingline® stapler, a Quartet® dry erase board, or a Kensington® computer mouse, you have touched part of ACCO Brands Corporation. With annual revenues of over $2 Billion, ACCO Brands (NYSE: ACCO) designs, markets, manufactures and sells branded academic, consumer and business products globally. The power of our brands, our unmatched global customer reach, and our strategic market strengths put us in a position to achieve global leadership and growth. We’re proud of our long history of industry leadership and innovation and are focused on delivering exceptional value to our customers by providing unique, cutting-edge, branded products.

Apply and build a successful future with ACCO Brands.

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More information about ACCO Brands, the Home of Great Brands Built by Great People, can be found at www.accobrands.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At ACCO Brands, we are committed to providing an environment of fairness and mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and team members without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, physical and mental disability, veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. ACCO Brands believes that a diverse and inclusive work environment is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

AODA

Accommodation for applicants with disabilities will be provided in all parts of the recruiting process as required under the ACCO Brands Canada AODA policy. Applicants are asked to make their needs known in advance.

Nearest Major Market: Chicago

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