Marketing Coordinator

Marketing Coordinator - 13 Month Contract

Division: Sales and Marketing
Job location: Remote (Ontario)
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Employment type: Full-time Contract

A little about us

Hi, we’re Aurora Cannabis, and we’re so excited to meet you!

We’re a global cannabis company with operations across Europe and North and South America. We’re driven by our passion to help people improve their lives and have a diverse team who bring their best every day, so Aurora can be the cannabis provider of choice for patients and consumers. We love our work, and we especially love our high quality, innovative brands that make up the Aurora family – from Aurora, Aurora Drift, San Rafael ’71, Greybeard and Whistler.

Our people combined with our collective passion for the industry is what makes Aurora a special place to work and defines what we call our “A-Team”. We are a high-performing team of cannabis experts, innovators, and champions, that work, learn and win together. We think BIG, act BOLD and execute with PURPOSE in all that we do, and will stop at nothing to cultivate the ultimate cannabis experience for our community.

Job Summary

As the Marketing Coordinator working remote in Canada, you will be part of the Canadian Consumer Commercial Team. You will coordinate and support the Marketing and Creative team in the execution of marketing activities and brand deliverables to bring awareness and consideration to our Consumer and Medical brands.

As the Marketing Coordinator you will be involved in...

• Write creative briefs for marketing deliverables
• Coordinate departmental projects and execute campaign plans including work back schedules, project plans, content plans, budget
• Maintain marketing inventory and fulfill merchandise and displays as required for retailers and sales agency
• Develop and deploy strategic engagement content for social media and e-mail channels including social listening and responding to customer inquiries on e-mail and social media accounts
• Escalate customer and retailer feedback to relevant departments for continuous improvement
• Secure Regulatory approvals on all marketing activity
• Liaise with external vendors and sales agency to deliver partnership deliverables
• Liaise with internal team to optimize creative deliverables and reach divisional targets
• Update content on consumer-facing websites
• Proactively identify and resolve project issues
• Identify, attend, execute event engagement strategies to maximize attendance, participation from retailers
• Secure Regulatory approvals on all marketing activity
• Keep abreast of competition developments and share back competitive intel and customer preferences

You would be the best fit for this role if you have…

• Cannabis and Product Knowledge is a must
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Detail-oriented with excellent time management and ability to manage multiple projects and timelines simultaneously
• Sales acumen
• Customer Service
• Social and digital acumen
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite, social media, e-mail, and Content Management Systems
• Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively with teams
• Takes initiative and presents creative solutions to problems

Bonus points if you have…

• Bachelor’s degree

• Business Administration or Marketing OR Diploma in Marketing and/ or Sales is a plus

• Prior experience in cannabis is preferred