For over 30 years, Midwest Tape has served libraries and their patrons with unparalleled access to the best content available in the media world. Our digital offering, hoopla Digital, combines the media and library expertise of Midwest Tape with the latest in web and mobile technology, delivering an all-in-one experience to the library world. As hoopla continues to grow on a global scale, we are expanding our team.

At Midwest Tape, we know our people are the reason for our success. We value our employees and believe in empowering them to help them thrive. We offer competitive pay and benefits, a healthy work/life balance, and appreciation for a job well done.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, & vision insurance
• 401k + match
• Profit sharing
• Paid vacation and personal time
• Flex time
• 10 paid holidays
• Company performance bonus
• Holiday bonus
• Training & career development opportunities

Position Summary:

The position of Manager, Special Projects, will organize, lead, and help execute marketing projects in conjunction with all formats, both physical and digital. In particular, the role will supervise projects during their lifecycles, which is the start to finish of a project. The role involves cross-functional interaction with the content teams to develop ideas, define processes, and managing the planning, execution and delivery of campaigns and projects related to marketing initiatives, while remaining on time and on budget. Collaboration and prioritization with other departments will be essential to ensure the needs of the business are met.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this position successfully, an individual must fulfill the knowledge, skill, and/or ability requirements listed below.

• Develops, implements, and monitors short and long-term projects, plans, goals, and objectives focused on achieving the sales and marketing strategic plan
• Provides guidance to the work of internal and external teams to ensure quality of products or services are delivered on schedule and within budget
• Establishes and maintains cooperative relationships with all departments within the organization.
• Oversees initiatives associated with data development and gathering, identifying new needs, and maintaining existing information
• Works as a liaison for the content teams to assist with new dashboard development and identifying new and better ways to use data
• Works with content teams to execute ongoing marketing promotions; Bonus Borrows, The Club and other new promotions as developed and assigned
• Works as a liaison for the content teams to coordinate with IT on system enhancements and executions intended to automate or improve work flows
• Identifies potential new workflows or automations and explores feasibility and identifies potential workflow changes
• Conducts special studies in coordination with Marketing Intelligence involving research and analysis of complex and sensitive information; develops recommendations and alternative solutions and implements initiatives
• Initiates or maintains project milestones as needed by the business
• Selects methods and techniques to lead a project to completion
• Performs other related duties and responsibilities, on occasion, as assigned

Skills:

• Problem-solving – ability to develop recommended solutions for problems as they occur
• Assesses best approaches and pathways to ensure the needs of the business are met
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group (executives, managers, stakeholders, and subject matter experts)
• Should be very flexible, well-organized with a strong attention to detail and ability to work independently as well as part of a team/project task force
• Time management – completing several tasks at once focused on deadlines and completion
• Experience with JIRA, Salesforce and other marketing software solutions is a plus

Preferred Education Requirements :

• Bachelor’s Degree, Business Administration, Marketing, or similar

Preferred Experience:

• Minimum of three to five years related work experience

Physical Requirements/Work Environment :

The work environment characteristics and physical demands described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to perform repetitive tasks
• Must be able to view computer screen for long periods of time daily
• Ability to regularly sit for extended periods of time
• Must be physically present for meetings, presentations, and training.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran