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Are you a marketer who is obsessed with pets? If your camera roll is full of art-directed photos of your cat, and/or dog memes fill your social feed, two words: Dream Job. At Virtual Veterinary Solutions (VVS), we love animals too. We are looking for someone like you to help us grow!
Virtural Veterinary Solutions is a rapidly growing organization based in Fredricton, New Brunswick. We are all about helping vets get back to doing what they do best: helping animals live their best lives. Specifically, we help vet practices across the United States thrive by solving administrative, HR and marketing challenges.
We're looking for a digital-savvy, pet-loving marketer with 2-4 years' experience to join our team full time as a Marketing Manager. Reporting to the CEO, the Marketing Manager will help deliver measurable results through the planning, creation, execution, management, analysis and reporting of marketing initiatives for Virtual Veterinary Solutions and many of our client hospitals. You will bring humour and creativity to the role, and a willingness to try new things in order to break through the clutter for vets and pet parents alike.
This position is a permanent, full-time role based out of our office in Fredriction or remotely within Atlantic Canada. We are flexible.
What you'll do
Responsibilities
- Developing and executing marketing, publicity and media relations plans that sing
- Managing social media, including content creation and community management (capturing the best side of staff and pets alike)
- Helping to create and coordinate earned and paid media opportunities
- Maintaining and optimizing websites
- Conducting market research and monitoring industry trends, being fully immersed in the veterinary industry
- Project management, including budget and timeline tracking
- Managing third-party vendors, agencies and contractors, including designers and digital marketing providers
- Measurement and analysis of all marketing initiatives, reporting to the CEO and Management Team
What you'll need
Qualifications
Our ideal candidate possesses the following skills:
- A great sense of humour and creative flair
- A diploma or degree in a related discipline
- 2-4 years' experience working in a marketing communications role as a generalist, but with fluency and experience in the social media/digital marketing space
- Did we mention a love of pets? Previous experience working in the pet/veterinary industry is a bonus, but not required
- A self-starter who is motivated to work hard and drive results with little supervision
- Flexibility, adaptability and a willingness to learn and try new things
- A problem-solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment
- Impeccable organizational skills, being able to manage multiple deliverables and deadlines at once
- Excellent English language skills, both verbal and written - bonus points for fluency in Spanish, but not required
- Computer proficiency, particularly with online research, email tools, Google Analytics, Google Drive and Microsoft Office
- Willingness and ability to travel within Canada and the US
- Flexibility with working hours outside of normal 9-5
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Core Skills
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