Marketing Design Specialist

Job title: Marketing Design Specialist

Job description: You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You’ll work with dynamic colleagues – experts in their fields – who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you’ll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients – who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description:
As our Marketing Design Specialist, Advisor Sales Support, you will be responsible for the creation of engaging and innovative marketing content in both French and English to support advisors and reach Clients and communities across various digital and print platforms.

As a designer of creative collateral and compelling brand images and you are well-versed in trending styles-creativity is in your DNA. You have a talent for producing eye-catching visuals. Using your strengths in relevant and high-impact digital brand image design, you are obsessively compelled to drive engagement. You will work daily with advisors in Quebec and across Canada to understand their value proposition, target audience and business objectives and will help them thrive with their marketing objectives.

The candidate in this role is someone who is fluent in both French and English, thrives in a fast-paced, creative environment, likes to work in consultation with advisors and other stakeholders, is resilient, open to collaboration and is well versed in digital content marketing best practices.

The Marketing Design Specialist reports to the Manager, Advisor Content, Advisor Sales Support in Sun Life Financial Distribution (SLFD). The SLFD Advisor Sales Support team delivers customized, bespoke marketing and sales initiatives at the region, team and individual advisor levels. The team is accountable to define and deliver marketing programs that effectively position Sun Life advisors’ distinctive value proposition for target clients and drive leads, sales and Client engagement.

What will you do?

• Work in consultation with advisors and team members in both French and English to develop marketing tactics, ranging from digital and print advertising, to social media and website content and brochures.
• Identify new marketing program opportunities, develop and source visual content.
• Update the advisor content library.
• Consult and liaise with advisors and field staff in French and English to solution their Marketing tactic needs.
• Manage the production and approval process, and proofreading and translation procedures.
• Help to optimize marketing efforts with segmentation, and personalized digital tactics that nurture and engage target audiences.
• Proactively collect and track marketing tool metrics and comments from Clients and advisors.

What do you need to succeed?

• Ability to communicate in both French and English language (oral and written)
• Strong grammar, spelling and proofreading ability in French.
• Minimum 3-5 years proven experience consulting in graphic design and marketing
• Thorough understanding of social media platforms, including advertising, and how they support other digital marketing efforts
• Graphic design oriented and great eye for detail
• Mastery of Adobe Creative Cloud, with emphasis on InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator in a Mac environment
• Communication and Client service
• Ability to clearly present and position ideas and concepts
• Intermediate analysis and problem-solving skills
• Contribute to sharing different points of views and diversity to our team and projects
• Ability to contribute to a busy team environment with positive attitude and impact
• Highly organized, with attention to detail and the ability to work on several projects simultaneously
• Post-secondary diploma in a related field
• Be a leader and a self-starter

What’s in it for you?

• 15 days vacation per year
• Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family
• Pension, stock and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security
• Fitness and wellness programs that help you balance work and life and enjoy a healthier lifestyle

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may e-mail a request to .

At Sun Life we strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work. Several flexible work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Salary Range:
54 500/ – 73 700/
Job Category:
Communications

Company:

Expected salary: $54500 per year

Location: Toronto, ON

Job date: Sun, 06 Jun 2021 06:18:36 GMT