Job Reference No. 101108

Multi-Channel Marketing Director
Carson, CA

About the company
We began as a single toy store in the 1950s…and we haven’t stopped growing since! Today we are a multimillion-dollar company with a growing network of retail stores and a successful mail-order business that serves teachers, parents and children all over the globe. We offer a wide variety of top-quality educational products, from furniture and art materials to puzzles, hands-on learning kits…even products that focus on multiculturalism and special needs.

We continue to offer the best products and service around—and we’re still growing! We now produce two mail-order catalogs and have retail stores popping up across the country. And because we are always looking for new ways to serve educators, we’ve opened up shop on the Internet. Our full-service website offers you instantaneous access to our catalogs, as well as free activity ideas for your classroom, information on our retail stores and much more.

Job Description
With thousands of high-volume, high quality products, best-of-breed customer service and multiple channels of marketing each successful in its own right, our Learning Materials continues its steady, profitable growth. Our challenge now is finding the right person to maximize all our marketing components. Are you that person?

Privately owned and operated through multiple family generations, we stuck to its original mission for over 50 years and has now become the premier provider of supplemental classroom instructional materials in the United States. Serving the explosively growing preschool market as well as Elementary grades, we publish highly regarded catalogs, run a world class website and are continuing to expand our retail presence across the country, currently with 45 company-owned stores.

Your job is to help it all fit together.

1. Coordinate communication among all the parts of the business as we take on new marketing initiatives
2. Oversee planning and implementation of multi-channel marketing opportunities.
3. Evaluate company strategies and their impact on long-term goals
4. Promote and guide establishment of new business vehicles that make sense for us.

Who we are looking for
1. At least 5 years experience driving a multi-channel business.
2. The ability to foster strong interpersonal relationships among our units.
3. Crystal clear communication, both written and oral
4. A self-starter with high initiative and job ownership

What’s on offer
Great on-site preschool, 401(k), excellent medical, flexible benefits, generous profit bonus plan, employee discount & casual dress. You can find a home here and we love it when people do.

For further info, email apply[at] smexec.com with the Job Reference No. on the subject line or call 866-542-7634.