About Us
An American owned and operated company since 1898, W.B. Mason has been delivering workplace essentials to keep businesses running for over 120 years. A leader in B2B eCommerce, Supply Chain Management and Distribution, you’ve probably seen our iconic red and yellow trucks, adorned with the image of our founder William Betts Mason, as they deliver tens-of-thousands of orders each day throughout New England and the Eastern United States.
Originally built on Office Supplies, we’ve since expanded to offer innovative, cost effective and customized solutions to an ever-evolving set of business requirements; selling and delivering over 15 product lines that span from Janitorial Supplies, Food Service, Shipping & Packaging, Breakroom and Furniture, to everything in between for every type of business.
About the Opportunity
The Marketing team at W.B. Mason can be best described in one word – Magnificent. We take immense pride in cultivating our brand image, vast portfolio of products, dynamic vendor relationships and go-to-market strategy.
Working within our Category Merchandising team, this is a key stakeholder position that manages digital marketing planning and execution in support of vendor relationships within an assigned product category. Best described as the “business side of Marketing”, a successful candidate for this role will have exceptional interpersonal tact, problem solving aptitude and demonstrated time/project management skills.
Eligible Locations
This position is located in our Corporate Headquarters office in Brockton, MA.
Set in a Hybrid work environment, this role will work partly remote and partly in-office, with in-office time required for training.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Assist in developing and maintaining vendor partnerships, including negotiating key agreement terms, helping to develop programs, and owning day-to-day communications
- Gain a savvy understanding of W.B. Mason’s marketing and reporting tools, and best practices
- Present marketing capabilities to vendors for the purpose of securing marketing support
- Build vendor marketing plans in line with negotiated program terms, and company initiatives
- Utilize relevant analytics, category, competitor, and customer data to support plan building, activity execution, and program negotiation
- Cross-functionally execute all elements of the marketing plans to ensure contract compliance; including, but not limited to: promotional item selection, creative influence, pricing
- Maintain new merchandise samples; coordinate process for new brand/new product reviews and assist with new item set-up, both from an operational perspective and online content
- Participate in assortment decision-making with manager and vendors
- Curate a best-in-class website shopping experience within the web categories assigned
- Liaison to purchasing, finance, accounting, sales and operations, responsible for ensuring all vendor-related concerns are addressed fully and in a timely manner
- Assemble vendor purchase data to ensure buying behavior is in-line with budgeted goals
- Assist with developing presentations to senior leadership
- Other duties as assigned
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Attention to detail, deadline-driven and goal- and results-oriented
- Ability to build and maintain productive cross-functional relationships
- Strong written, problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Strong business acumen and analytical skills, particularly using data sets to problem solve, with a strong ability to achieve results
- Ability to communicate effectively with all levels inside the organization and within the vendor community via phone, email, video conferencing and in-person interactions
Education and/or Experience
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Must have an expected graduation date of May 2025 or be a recent alumni
- If an alumni, 1-2 years experience in retail category management, merchandising, buying, planning and allocation, marketing or a related field experience required.
- Must possess a strong grasp of business math and exceptional computer skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Excel
Minimum Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.
Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, speak and hear. The employee is frequently required to sit. The employee is frequently required to use hands and fingers for data entry. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. The Employer retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position.
W.B. Mason Company, Inc. will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities. Applicants who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact us at ADAassistance@wbmason.com or 1-888-926-2766.
Equal Opportunity Employer
W.B. Mason Company, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
