Jr. Marketing Project Specialist

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 the past 47 years, Heritage Auctions has been the largest auction house founded in the U.S. and serves more than 50 different auction categories, including Coins, Sports, Comics, Historical, Jewelry, Fine & Decorative Art, Wine, and many more. 

SUMMARY:
Heritage Auctions is looking for a full-time, entry-level marketing professional to join its Category Marketing team in the Marketing Department. The ideal candidate has one year of project Management experience, ideally in a marketing role with managing campaigns, direct mail pieces, brochures, postcards, print advertisements, and miscellaneous collateral. This position will work closely with graphic designers, print production staff, and subject matter experts to produce print marketing efforts with brand consistency in a fast-paced environment.
 

Experience supporting a sales or account/client team is highly desirable. Outstanding attention to detail, organization, follow through, multitasking 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 but not essential. This position will report to the Vice President of Marketing.

BENEFITS:

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

COMPENSATION: Commensurate based on experience
 

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

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

• Owning the end-to-end support function of print 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.
• 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 ad 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

The successful candidate is a deadline-driven, reliable self-starter, able to work independently with extreme attention to detail. Must be able to pivot, 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. Experience with Robohead or other project management software is preferred but not required.     

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 turn-around demands.

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