Category Marketing Specialist

Category Marketing Specialist Location Dallas, TX (Oak Lawn area) : Description:

Set your sights on a career at Heritage Auctions, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with offices in New York, Chicago, Beverly Hills, London, Hong Kong, and other cities. For almost 50 years, Heritage Auctions has been the largest auction house founded in the U.S. and serves more than 50 auction categories, including Coins, Sports, Comics, Historical, Jewelry, Fine & Decorative Art, Wine, and many more.

SUMMARY: Heritage Auctions is looking for a full-time, experienced marketing professional to join its Category Marketing team within the Marketing Department. The ideal candidate has 5 years of hands-on experience personally managing a heavy volume of marketing efforts and campaigns and creating direct mail, brochures, postcards, print advertisements, and miscellaneous collateral. This position will work closely with graphic designers, print production staff, and subject matter experts to produce marketing efforts with brand consistency in a fast-paced environment.

LOCATION: South of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, NW corner of W. Airport Freeway (Hwy. 183) and Valley View Lane

BENEFITS:

• Medical, Dental, Vision coverage
• Paid time off
• 401k savings plans

COMPENSATION: Commensurate based on experience

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: Duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Owning the support function, end-to-end, of marketing campaigns for specific auctions and categories. Ability to formulate and communicate creative ideas.
• Managing the processes for producing print marketing efforts and campaigns, e.g., creating jobs, scheduling production workflow, acquiring creative assets, communicating job specs to the graphic design team, and interfacing with print production vendors.
• Serving and collaborating with assigned internal clients and subject matter experts, i.e., the directors of our 50+ categories of collectibles, fine art, and luxury lifestyle items.
• Providing content (marketing copy and images) to the graphic design team.
• Creating advertising plans by sourcing trade and general interest publications, negotiating advertising rates, and managing insertion orders.
• Collaborating with other departments (Digital Team, Operations, Events, Photography) to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Liaise with the digital marketing team to ensure digital marketing efforts (emails, web marketing, social media) are scheduled and efficiently executed.
• Discover the unique stories behind the items we auction through regular interaction with subject matter experts.

Requirements:

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

• Experience supporting a sales or account/client team is highly desirable.
• Bachelor's degree required.
• Outstanding attention to detail, organization, and interpersonal skills is a must.
• Experience with the auction business and/or collectibles, fine art, or luxury lifestyle goods (e.g. fine jewelry and timepieces) is preferred.
• This position will report to the Vice President of Marketing.

QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS:

• The successful candidate is a deadline-driven, reliable self-starter, able to work independently with extreme attention to detail.
• Must be able to juggle and prioritize a heavy volume of jobs with competing deadlines; i.e., know when to put aside one project to start another, yet work on both simultaneously.

Required interpersonal skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Creative thinker, open to new ideas and viewpoints from co-workers.
• Objective and tactful; able to give and receive constructive criticism.
• Resilient team player with a sense of humor and thick skin who can see the big picture.
• Understands how to balance and separate the critical from the trivial during tight deadlines with very quick turnaround demands.

Heritage Auctions welcomes and encourages applications from women, minorities, veterans, mature workers, and persons with disabilities. EOE