Digital Marketing Director - Zurn

Rexnord Corporation

The Company:

Rexnord® is a $2 billion multi-platform diversified global industrial company. Within our platforms, we serve a wide array of growing, global end markets by offering the broadest, most reliable product portfolios and trusted brands in our industries. Within Process & Motion Control, we design, manufacture, market and service specified, highly engineered mechanical components used within complex systems where our customers’ reliability requirements and the cost of failure or downtime are extremely high. Within Water Management, we design, procure, manufacture and market products that provide and enhance water quality, safety, flow control and conservation, in which customers specify our products due to performance, life cycle and project cost, and our service levels. Founded in 1892, Rexnord is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A. and employs approximately 7,400 associates worldwide.

Business Unit:

Zurn Engineered Water Solutions® is a recognized leader in commercial, municipal, and industrial markets. Zurn manufactures the largest breadth of engineered water solutions in the industry, including a wide spectrum of sustainable plumbing products. Zurn delivers total building solutions for new construction and retrofit applications that enhance any building’s environment.

https://www.rexnord.com/home


Position Details

Digital Marketing Director - Zurn
Job
Full-time
6/15/2020
Southeast Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI

The Director of Digital Marketing will lead the development and implementation of Zurn’s Digital Marketing and Digital Innovation strategies. This critical role will be responsible for driving a comprehensive roadmap of website feature development, UX/UI enhancements, and business intelligence programs. In addition, this role will own the growth and optimization of a highly profitable lead generation, nurturing and sales qualification strategy and therefore must be well versed in inbound marketing, paid media, digital content, marketing automation and CRM. This position must be strongly customer focused and results driven and work diligently to obtain a clear understanding of customer expectations to prioritize and drive forward our web innovation roadmap. As a Director-level role, this position must also be a strong leader, managing a cross functional team of talented digital marketers and web developers.

Key Accountabilities:

Digital Marketing & Demand Generation

  • Develop and the lead the digital marketing strategy for the business Lead an end to end lead generation, nurturing and sales qualification process. 
  • Work closely with the digital marketing and sales team to improve the ROI of digital demand generation. 
  • Optimize owned websites for SEO, ensure all technical structures, sitemaps, internal linking strategies, UX, content, etc. are properly optimized for search 
  • Own the digital content strategy, utilizing thought leadership content to drive demand. 
  • Nurture and qualify leads acquired through Zurn’s digital properties via marketing automation. 
  • Implement paid search, programmatic and social strategies for the business.

Digital Innovation

  • Lead the creation, prioritization, and implementation of the innovation roadmap for Zurn’s digital properties 
  • Own all testing, debugging and performance of all web properties 
  • Connect websites to Zurn’s PIM database 
  • Maintain the CMS and content delivery for all Zurn websites 
  • Audit content, delivery and errors to ensure a strong user experience 
  • Utilize web analytics, BI and qualitative intelligence to create success metrics and dashboards cascaded to all levels of the organization 
  • Select and manage web agencies to accelerate the pace of innovation 
  • Evaluate new technologies and web platforms to improve the overall digital experience 
  • Document technical work processes, ensures quality assurance, and standardization

UX Improvements

  • Improve our website customer satisfaction for each persona group to the top quartile of our peer group. 
  • Collaborate with the creative team on the design of new web templates 
  • Lead the consolation of web properties to create a better experience for our customers 
  • Work with product and sales teams to develop new tools that drive the sale of Zurn products 
  • Educate the organization on how customers are interacting with products/features important to key stakeholders and work to improve technologies collectively 
  • Create A/B and multivariate testing programs to improve the customer experience

Job Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, IT or related field 
  • 10+ years of experience in Digital Marketing 
  • 5+ years’ experience managing Digital Marketing teams 
  • Experience managing budgets exceeding $1M annually 
  • Highly knowledge of Agile/Scrum development methodologies 
  • Expert level understanding of web technology and well versed in web usability best practices 
  • Proven success in improving search results through SEO 
  • Expert level knowledgeable of PPC, display and video advertising 
  • Ability to think strategically and develop a web roadmap that creates customer value 
  • Expert level knowledge of web analytics, being able to translate web analytics into actional business insights. 
  • Strong organization skills with focus on setting priorities and delivering quality results under tight constraints 
  • Proven experience managing multiple web projects at once utilizing both internal and external resources. 
  • Well versed in marketing automation strategy 
  • Highly knowledgeable of web design best practices 
  • Proven experience collaborating with IT on successful system upgrades, serving migrations, performance enhancements and deployments. 
  • Experience with .NET and Kentico is highly preferred. 
  • Passion for emerging technology 
  • Experience managing websites in the manufacturing industry in a B2B environment a plus

Capabilities and Success Factors:

  • Cultivates Innovation – Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful. 
  • Drives Vision & Purpose – Painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action. 
  • Customer Focus – Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions. 
  • Action Oriented – Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm. 
  • Courage – Stepping up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said. 
  • Drives Results – Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances. 
  • Manages Complexity – Making sense of complex, high quantity and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.


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