Sympatico.ca is Canada’s leading Portal and a division of Bell Media that operates other media brands such as TSN, CTV, RDS, etc. The Portal offers a wide range of selected content that provides its users with the most complete experience. Our business is to connect the Canadian advertisers with their customers. If you are eager to work into a fast pace, growing and competitive environment, the Portal is a place of choice.

A career at Bell Media, Sympatico.ca Portal will offer you the opportunity to:

• Work in an exciting organization with professionals who are eminent in their respective field
• Have challenging and interesting career opportunities in a team environment
• Continue your development throughout your career with continuous opportunities to diversify your skills

Reporting to the associate director of direct marketing, the manager - direct marketing is responsible for executing direct-marketing campaigns for Sympatico.ca. These campaigns include contests, newsletter and email marketing programs.

Responsibilities:

Support the Direct Marketing team by:
• Executing e-mail campaigns on behalf of advertisers and internal channels — execution includes deployment and reporting on their performance
• Becoming the expert in our email marketing platform
o report on our overall deliverability and performance and recommend changes
o suggest new product offerings based on the new technology
• Coding and building email creative for internal and client email campaigns. HTML proficiency required.
• Coding and building contests for internal teams and clients
• Acting as the day-to-day contact for other Bell Media product managers
• Partnering with internal product managers to help them achieve their acquisition goals
• Manage the delivery of advertisers ad placements within the newsletter products suite, monitor performance
• Leading acquisitions efforts for Sympatico.ca lists – developing and executing campaigns to drive sign-ups and data collection, analyzing campaign results

• Work experience direct marketing/email marketing (3+ years)
• Strong html and Internet coding skills (3+ years)
• Proficiency with Photoshop
• Experience managing and deploying email and newsletter marketing programs
• Outstanding analytical skills
• Strong organizational planning skills and attention to detail
• Strong written and verbal communicator (bilingualism an asset)

Compensation TBD

Position Type (management or non-management): Management - CP2
Company name: Bell Media/Sympatico.ca
Resource person's name: Lisa Taylor
Date Candidate Required: ASAP
Application Deadline: September 30, 2011
Job Location: Toronto, ON