Senior Specialist - Marketing (Production Operations)

Wesco • Glenview, IL

20d

About The Position

As a Senior Specialist – Marketing (Production Operations), you will manage end‑to-end production of marketing campaigns, overseeing intake, planning, coordination, and on‑time delivery. You will partner with marketing, creative, and cross‑functional teams to clarify requirements, prioritize work, and manage timelines, scope, dependencies, and communications across multiple projects. The role ensures visibility, structure, and standardized processes, proactively tracking progress, identifying risks, and communicating impacts to keep initiatives aligned. While you collaborate closely with strategy and execution teams, the focus is on project delivery and operational effectiveness, rather than content creation or campaign development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, or relevant industry preferred.
• 4 to 5 years required, 6 years preferred of product, solution or field marketing experience, preferably in Fortune 500 company.
• Marketing strategy and implementation, including a working knowledge of multi-channel marketing and associated best practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, combined with an ability to communicate clearly and succinctly to internal and external groups.
• Highly organized and detail oriented, with a customer-centric focus and commitment to quality.
• Strong research and analytical skills, including the ability to spot questionable information or unusual data trends, combined with a disciplined problem-solving process that applies conceptual thinking to identify root cause(s) and provide appropriate solution(s).
• Able to spot new and evaluate existing business opportunities, including the ability to ask good questions, look beyond the obvious, and see the “big picture.”
• Strong mathematical and computer skills, including proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), working knowledge and at least basic- to intermediate-level HTML or wordpress skills.
• Strong creativity, out-of-the-box thinking, and entrepreneurial drive; able to work with autonomy and self-direction.
• Able to influence others through effective negotiation techniques and strong interpersonal skills, meet deadlines, and deliver results.

Responsibilities

• Manage marketing projects and deliverables from intake through completion, ensuring timelines, scope, dependencies, and expectations are clearly defined.
• Partner with marketing stakeholders, creative teams, and cross‑functional partners to plan, prioritize, and coordinate work across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, and task tracking to provide visibility into progress and delivery status.
• Facilitate project intake, kickoff, and status meetings to ensure alignment on objectives, roles, and timelines.
• Monitor progress and proactively identify risks, issues, and impacts; communicate status and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain consistent processes and tools to improve efficiency, predictability, and transparency in marketing delivery.
• Coordinate with key contacts for implementation and communication of sales promotions and marketing campaigns from concept development to finished product, including development of marketing collateral such as social and digital campaigns, as well as traditional marketing such as direct mailers, brochures, flyers, catalog pages, etc.
• Assist with development and manage tracking of lead-generation activities such as link building, directory listings, blog, social media, and online press release generation, as requested
• Monitor customer engagement and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of marketing campaigns and provide insight on how to improve or expand marketing campaigns..
• Assist with research and analysis activities such as web metrics/trend analysis and tracking, competitive web site/eCommerce monitoring, customer research, and competitor research.
• Support sales and marketing needs of sales and supplier product groups at global, national, regional, and local levels.

Benefits

• For eligible positions, compensation may include participation in a bonus or sales incentive plan, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plan documents.
• For certain sales roles, Wesco also offers a commission structure that provides additional compensation based on sales results, as defined by the applicable commission plan.
• In addition, Wesco offers a benefits program for eligible employees, which may include paid time off, medical, dental, and vision coverage, and retirement savings plans.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level