Marketing Specialist
Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group Ltd.
Toronto, ON
Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group is looking for a new Marketing Specialist! Are you someone who has a “can-do” attitude, enjoys new projects, and is up to date with marketing trends and technologies? If yes, this may be the right fit for you!
Who You Are
As the ideal team player, you have a knack for technology and applications and enjoy driving outcomes with creative out-of-the-box thinking. You are a strategic and forward thinker but also understand the importance of making incremental changes. You are passionate about your work and maintaining strong relationships among colleagues, managers, and external stakeholders.
This is a new position for our company designed for someone who is goal-oriented and ready for any challenge that comes their way. You are flexible and adapt easily to the evolving needs of the business. Your openness to continuous learning is unparalleled and will be the key to your success and ours in standing out among the competition.
What You Will Do
- Work with the digital marketing and communications team to enhance and amplify awareness of our brand
- Work with outside vendors to implement tools and keep to timelines
- Build out virtual and in person events from concept through execution
- Manage multiple projects and collaborate with other departments
- Work with the marketing team to brainstorm new and innovative growth strategies
- Work with key stakeholders to update and improve their digital presence
- Identify latest trends and technologies within marketing relevant to the asset management industry
- Writing and editing of various communications materials for CCLFG and affiliates such as:
- Press releases / announcements
- Sell sheets/brochures
- Social media posts
- Employee biographies
- Internal Communications
- Select affiliate publications / letters
What You Bring
- Experience: You have a minimum of 2 years of digital marketing and communications experience
- Knowledge: You have completed an Undergraduate Degree in Marketing, Communications, Public Relations or similar; asset management knowledge. Proficiency in verbal and written French is an asset
- Tech Savvy: Understand the fundamentals of SEO, marketing automation tools, CRM platforms, CMS (WordPress, Sitefinity), web analytic software (Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager), basic understanding of HTML and CSS
- Content Marketing: Fundamental understanding of content marketing techniques/best practices
- Social Media: Experience in utilizing social platforms and optimizing paid and organic media initiatives
- Communications: You have effective written and oral communication and presentation skills with the ability to improvise. You can run with a project independently but create consensus throughout the process
- Creativity: You have a creative mind with an eye for detail, ideas come naturally and you have proven it through your successful track record
About Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group
Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group Ltd. (“CC&LFG”) provides a broad range of traditional and alternative investment products and services to individuals, advisors and institutional investors. Our business comprises of eleven institutional investment affiliates that are responsible for investment decision making and client service, as well as distribution affiliates including Connor Clark & Lunn Private Capital, which provides multi-asset class investment solutions and Connor, Clark & Lunn Funds which distributes single-strategy investments to individual investors. CC&LFG partners with each of its affiliates by contributing world class operations, product development expertise, broad distribution, and business management. We have grown from $29 billion in assets and 200 people in 2008 to approximately $96 billion in assets and over 640 people today. This has been accompanied by a high level of change in technology, types of assets managed, trading activity and geographic growth. As we look forward, we can see both opportunities and challenges for further growth that only reinforce our commitment to attracting, retaining and motivating the most talented people.
This is best achieved by:
- A High-Quality Environment: To work with people who we hold in high regard; to enjoy the time that we spend at work; to focus on productive activities without the distraction of politics and bureaucracy; to treat each other with respect.
- An Opportunity to Succeed: To do work that has value and which presents the opportunity for professional growth and development.
- Recognition and Reward: To recognize each person’s contribution and to align compensation with contribution.
CC&L is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or expression, disability, or age.
To apply for this position, please submit your resume and cover letter as one PDF.
We thank all applicants in advance for their interest, but only those candidates shortlisted for interviews will be contacted. No telephone calls or recruitment agencies will be accepted.
Marketing Specialist
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