Marketing Associate

Marketing Associate

Designated office:

Eastlink

6080 Young Street

Halifax, NS

This position is:

On-site - working all 5 days per week in the Office 

Eastlink is a family owned, entrepreneurial and innovative company headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  We take great pride in being a leader in delivering creative competitive, customer focused telecommunications solutions, and connecting our customers to the things and people that matter most.  Serving a customer base across seven provinces, our advanced solutions include Internet, Mobile, TV, Telephone, Security and Automation, Data Communications, and exclusive locally produced programming on Eastlink Community TV.

We embrace diversity, inclusion, equity, and accessibility throughout all levels of the organization and encourage members of equity groups to self-identify during the application process.

We are seeking a collaborative and highly motivated Marketing Associate to join our National Marketing team. The Marketing Associate is a team player looking to grow and develop their expertise on an innovative team. You are familiar with marketing best practice, thrive in a dynamic environment, are a self-starter and can follow processes for timely delivery of tasks. From supporting campaign development to analyzing data to inform areas of opportunity, you’ll be developed to lead and become an expert in your own categories and projects amongst a collaborative cross function team

Key responsibilities:

• Support the campaign, content and category teams.
• Participate in the marketing communications process (includes quarterly planning, creating briefs, briefing internal and external teams, executing & managing project delivery, measuring results and optimizing as needed).
• Work closely with internal and external partners to deliver on tasks.
• Use critical thinking to make informed decisions, leveraging tools and resources available.
• Build meaningful relationships with external and internal partners (regional teams, retail, operations, web team, content planning, customer communications, agency teams), gathering an understanding of requirements to effectively execute plans and build on opportunities.
• Leverage data to draw insights and conclusions that drive strategic business decisions into action.
• Provide consumer, category, and competitive insights and report findings to stakeholders.
• Support ad hoc tasks and projects as required.

Qualifications:

• Post-secondary education (University Degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism, or related field is preferred).
• Natural team player who thrives in fast-paced environments with minimal supervision.
• Strong communications skills, both written and verbal.

• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite of tools, with an emphasis on Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Here are some more characteristics about you and the role:

• You are a creative self-starter with high standards.
• You have strong project and time management skills with exceptional attention to detail/accuracy.
• You can take something and run with it as a strategist, leveraging your knowledge to make informed decisions and execute on the task at hand.
• You enjoy taking on new challenges and simplifying the complex – to you, problems are just opportunities!
• Asking the hard questions and gathering the answers to successfully carry through the project doesn’t scare you.
• Thrive in a bustling environment in a competitive industry – you find change exciting and are keen to help keep a fast-moving team organized.
• Customer behavior is intriguing to you, and you can think through the customer experience to help influence marketing outcomes.
• Love contributing to a collaborative team and enjoy building relationships both internally and externally.
• You love to be organized and keep multiple balls in the air and consider multitasking a core skill!

Why Choose Eastlink?

Eastlink operates in a culture of continuous improvement through listening, learning, and adapting, which enables us to respond quickly to the evolving needs of both employees and customers. We recognize that our truly greatest competitive edge is our people and that delivering a great customer experience begins with a great employee experience. Our philosophy of developing and training our team “on the ground” not only helps to create a strong onboarding experience but also readies employees for future growth opportunities within the organization.  

Get your career started with us and stay with us, your journey begins here!