Urban Barn is looking for a Marketing/E-Commerce Specialist based out of our Home Office in Burnaby, BC.

The Marketing Specialist will be responsible for working cross functionally with brand, marketing and creative to develop content for a seamless Omni-Channel customer journey.

What You Will Do:

• Collaborate with the creative team and E-Commerce team on the visual execution of creative ideas, cultivate dialogue for improved efficiency and impact
• Act as the liaison between the marketing department and advertising agency/digital agency on the online advertising campaigns' creative and media plans
• Content strategy development that aligns messaging with personas to attract, convert, and retain online customers via email and website
• Create and execute email quarterly marketing campaign strategies
• Collaborate with E-Commerce department for updating and managing the website with the goal to increase the conversion rate and online sales
• Continue working to optimize online customer experience
• Research and reports on the competitive online/digital landscape, highlighting industry and experiential leaders and identifying areas of opportunity
• Collaborate with implementation team to design and execute new website platform and marketing cloud

Who You Are

• Thrive in a fast-paced environment because of your outstanding communication skills, positive attitude and the ability to juggle competing priorities
• Understand online business strategy, have worked with all social media platforms, you love e-commerce marketing and understand customer engagement
• You are all about initiative, reliability and having a high level of ownership, but you also know when to reach out and ask for guidance
• Well-organized and detail oriented; you like making plans, following through and following up
• Self-motivated and work well independently, as well as in a team
• Developed communication skills; both written and verbal; can adjust style to audience

What You Bring

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in marketing, graphic & web design and/or e-commerce management
• Post-secondary education in a discipline relevant to Marketing/E-Commerce
• Solid understanding of Omni-Channel in a retail environment
• Intermediate understanding of internet technologies, including HTML, URLs, and content management systems
• Coding experience is considered an asset
• Solid understanding of digital marketing, email marketing and online customer acquisition
• Proficient in the Adobe Creative Suite, Google Business and Google Analytics
• Working knowledge of up-to-date search engine optimization techniques considered an asset

Why Join Urban Barn

• We offer a fun work environment with a Canadian-owned-and-proud-of-it company
• You’ll be surrounded by really cool furniture, home décor products and really cool people
• Our people get many opportunities to grow their careers in the retail furniture and home decor industry
• Generous product discount plan
• Competitive benefits package
• Did we mention you’ll get a chance to work in a fun place? ….. Some things are worth repeating