The E. O. Schweitzer Manufacturing Division of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) seeks a creative, teamwork-oriented individual with an aptitude for understanding technical concepts for our Marketing Manager Position. If you are looking for an opportunity to create and execute a marketing plan, find new ways of measuring and improving the effectiveness of promotional activities, and identify market messages for a high-quality technical product, this may be the position for you!
Located in Lake Zurich, Illinois, E. O. Schweitzer Manufacturing provides a positive, professional environment where you can make a difference in how the industry views SEL products and solutions. The companys proximity to Chicago will allow you to enjoy all that the city has to offer, but its quieter, suburban location is ideal for those looking for a more relaxed place to live and work.

Marketing Manager

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate and improve the division brand and messages.
  
• Understand the divisions market segments and use this understanding to strengthen messages and channels.
  
• Develop and execute a marketing plan for new products.
  
• Create and manage advertisements and a yearly advertising plan.
  
• Revise the division catalog on a yearly basis to include new products, applications, and corrections.
  
• Identify the best trade shows and conferences for the division. Provide relevant marketing collateral, product, displays, support and messaging.
  
• Communication to the sales force of new and updated products, division news, changes in the marketplace, etc.
  
• Create, update and manage product installation instructions.
  
• Work with Manufacturing and Engineering to ensure that product marking and aesthetics are consistent and in keeping with larger marketing objectives.
  
• Support Customer Service and Field Application Engineering as necessary.
  
• Create and/or deliver presentations to customers and sales groups.
  
• Work with SEL Marketing groups to leverage corporate campaigns and to reinforce the message that SEL provides a full distribution system solution to the market.
  
• Manage and update the Contact List and leverage it as appropriate for direct mail, event invitations, etc.
  
• Identify, measure and improve processes

Qualifications:

• BA or BS
  
• 3 to 5 years of business-to-business technical product marketing
  
• Proven record of successful collaboration with engineers
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  
• Ability to accurately research topics and process information
  
• Strong analytical skills
  
• Experience and skill with Microsoft Office
  
• Willingness to travel

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical experience or education
  
• Foreign language skills
  
• MBA
  
• Sales Experience
  
• Experience with InDesign, Quark or other layout program

An Award Winning Company

E. O. Schweitzer Manufacturing (EOS Mfg.), a subsidiary of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL), has a reputation for quality, reliability, integrity, and service. These traits have enabled us to expand within the domestic electric utility market as well as into the industrial, international, and OEM markets.

In an independent survey conducted by Newton-Evans Research Company, SEL ranks first in seven categories of performance including technology, features, security against hackers, web/internet information ability, technical service and support, price, and relay setting PC software. As a subsidiary of SEL, EOS Mfg. strives to reach the same standards in the market for faulted circuit indicators and related sensor products.

Apply Your Talent. Make a Difference. Enjoy the Rewards.

Are you ready to work for a quickly-growing, creative company where your ideas and efforts will make a difference? Are you a quick learner who likes new challenges? If so, then you are ready to join us at E. O. Schweitzer Manufacturing.

Edmund O. Schweitzer Jr. sold the companys first fault indicating products in 1949. Since then, the Mundelein, Illinois company has sold hundreds of thousands of fault indicators in the United States and abroad. In 2004, EOS Mfg. became a subsidiary of SEL, the company started in 1984 by Ed Schweitzer Jrs son, Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer III. Under Eds technical, managerial, and fiscal leadership, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories has expanded to over 1800 employees. Ed understands and supports the need for investing in employees. In return, he expects that we hire only the best, most highly motivated team members, and that we deliver simple, reliable, and cost-effective products and solutions.

Our companys fault indicators help utility, industrial, and commercial users find faults faster so that power can be restored more quickly after an interruption. Like SEL, our company and our product exist to make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical. That purpose has made SEL very successful, and the company is managed with sound fiscal judgment and that purpose in mind. Profits are reinvested to fuel the companys growth.

If you are ready for the challenge and benefits of being part of SELs E. O. Schweitzer Manufacturing team, and you meet the requirements listed above, please apply online at www.selinc.com/careers.

*Benefits: E. O. Schweitzer Manufacturing has an excellent benefits package including: medical and dental coverage for all regular full-time employees and their family; long-term disability and life insurance; education assistance programs and retirement plan.

To Apply For This Position:

We ask all candidates to submit their resume through our website at www.selinc.com/careers. If your qualifications and experience match any of our current openings, please submit your resume for that position so that you may be considered immediately.

SEL is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and a Drug Free Workplace.