Position: Outreach Marketing Manager

Reports to: Finance/Human Resources

Location: Bordentown, NJ

Travel: 25%

Company Overview

With a true passion and an unwavering dedication to championing the benefits of cannabis, Evolve Cannabis (EC) offers a truly immersive experience within its store. Evolve Cannabis is a recreational marijuana store offering a variety of adult use marijuana products. EC sources its products from premier producers.

Overview of Position

The Outreach Manager holds ultimate responsibility for EC marketing activities and oversees the development and delivery of a fully integrated marketing strategy in order to drive EC’s success in the cannabis industry in and beyond.

The position will require 10% focus community outreach; 30% focus on customer experience internally and externally, to insure customer satisfaction. 60% focus on marketing promotions through CRM, Dutchie, Alpine IQ, app engagement, text messaging, email, specials. Promotion, events, pop ups, vendor coordination, Social Media posting and stories, hyper local messaging with local businesses

Champion the brand strategy and thought-leadership via strategic opportunities and partnerships

∙Work closely with product management team to define marketing goals and programs ∙ Develop the marketing strategy for new and existing products in collaboration with the Product Manager

∙Oversee implementation of the communication strategy - including campaigns, events, digital marketing, and   PR - for both internal and external audiences

∙Engages local businesses, business organizations, and community organizations ∙ Work closely with dispensary  team; enabling them to meet their commercial objectives by providing them with appropriate tools,  materials, and presentations

∙Oversee and act as liaison between product management, customer affairs as well as public relations  addressing all client issues internally and externally insuring a positive customer experience.

∙Demonstrate effective management of marketing, advertising, and promotional activities for EC by  collaborating  to create, launch, and track performance of new products and campaigns ∙ Manage social media  presence and direct programs to improve social media reputation and recognition, develop consistent content, update website and related web presence such as Weedmap, Leafly and similar

∙ Manage the use of the company’s customer relationship management software, Sprout, and loyalty program

∙ Undertake continuous analysis of competitive environment and consumer trends

Core Competencies

To succeed, the Outreach Manager must be: Passionate, Informed, Approachable, Energetic and Trustworthy. The Outreach Manager must consistently and uncompromisingly embody and demonstrate the following:

• Integrity
• Personal Accountability
• Teamwork
• Problem Solving
• Confidence
• Flexibility

Duties and Responsibilities

∙Responsible for all aspects of marketing projects including: meeting deadlines, time management,contingency     planning, approval channels and procedures, budgeting, campaign analysis, and tracking/monitoring         procedures

Establish and articulate marketing project scope, strategy, and objectives to appropriate employees and key leadership

Manage creative production of online and offline marketing assets, graphic design, video production, and web development, from the initial concept to finished product and execution ∙ Understand the products and services offering and approach of key competitors; communicate products and services differentiation to dispensaries and provide input to senior leadership ∙ Provide assistance on press releases, contributed articles, presentations, events, and conferences ∙ Develop brief for design, copy, image, and content needs in the development of sales tools, collateral, advertisements, events, websites, and other promotional activities

∙Act as a brand steward, upholding brand and trademark standards and consistency in all projects ∙

 Assist with sales reports

∙Ensure department compliance with established standard policies and procedures ∙

 Manage external vendors and agency partners as needed

∙Monitor and report project expenses and process invoices with accounts payable ∙

 Social Media Engagement Instagram and Facebook -  Minimum one story per day,  One post per week,  Minimum of 10 comments per day. And a minimum of 10 Likes on local businesses or industry (separately from where commenting on).  Daily Alpine IQ and Dutchie review,

Other projects as assigned

Education

∙ Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Advertising, Business Management, or related field preferred

Work Experience Required

Proven track record of success in senior marketing roles including team management ∙ Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to spot original branding opportunities ∙ Minimum of 3 years’ experience in marketing, communications in rolestaking on progressive responsibility

∙Experience in a startup company preferred

Required Knowledge

∙ Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite

∙ Knowledge of web-based project management tools and collaboration technologies ∙

  Familiarity with CRM software as well as social media platforms

Skills and Abilities

∙ Confident, driven and dynamic leader

∙ Excellent project management and organizational skills, positive problem-solving attitude ∙

PLEASE NOTIFY IF A CITY OF BORDENTOWN RESIDENT!