Electrical Program Specialist

Electrical Program Specialist

Who We Are:

Atkore is forging a future where our employees, customers, suppliers, shareholders, and communities are building better together – a future focused on serving the customer and powering and protecting the world.

With a global network of manufacturing and distribution facilities, Atkore is a leading provider of electrical, safety and infrastructure solutions.

Who We Are Looking For:

Atkore currently has an opening for an Electrical Program Specialist out of our global headquarters in Harvey, IL. This individual will work directly with product managers and the electrical sales teams and will be responsible for project-managing and implementing program activities for Atkore’s electrical distributors. This individual identifies, manages, creates, and helps implement program elements to support each electrical distributor’s overall strategy to promote new products, including counter merchandising, promotions, tools, resources, and training to support individual distributor strategies.

What You’ll Do:

• Mange the execution of the key program elements of the Atkore distributor program.
• Lead projects to create counter merchandising displays, custom promotions, distributor focused training tool kits and digital tools to drive awareness and growth with distributors.
• Improve, maintain, and create new processes and standard work to ensure productivity for launch communications, program project tracking, root-cause-countermeasure metrics for team.
• Track and record metrics to measure program elements. Understand tools available to determine metrics.
• Manage quarterly distributor calendar and content for newsletter, webinars, field tool kits and online modules.
• Handle marketing funds management for electrical sales teams to include processing requests, tracking, and reporting.
• Create, implement, and track local distributor promotions by developing standard work and effective processes.
• Manage the content and the creation of training modules for products, programs and tools for distributors.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor's Degree required, preferably with a Business or Marketing focus.
• 3+ years' experience in the electrical industry with a sales or marketing background.
• Strong organizational, project management, and communication skills. We’re looking for someone with a track record of managing their time wisely, hitting all their deadlines and delivering results.
• An understanding of customer and channel requirements that translates into developing the appropriate tools, resources, and program support tools we need.
• A capacity for a fast pace. The ideal candidate is someone who enjoys having multiple projects going simultaneously, as well as someone who thrives in a role where cross functional collaboration is paramount to success.

Within 3 Months, You’ll:

• Complete your new hire “Immersion” so that you are ready to rock in your new role.
• Have developed relationships with the key stakeholders for this role.
• Be educated on all Atkore systems engaging with JDE, salesforce, Atkore University, Atkore portal, etc.

Within 6 Months, You’ll:

• Be working well with cross functional teams to complete projects.
• Have a holistic understanding of the Atkore Distributor Program, elements, and objectives.
• Be independently managing full program element projects.
• Be able to present professionally on the Distributor Program to sales and customers.
• Be analyzing data, creating metrics, and communicating results of each program element.

Within 12 Months, You’ll:

• Have gained a thorough understanding of the electrical industry.
• Be autonomously creating audience-specific content for distributors and contractors.
• Be fully executing and delivering results on multiple projects.
• Have developed standardized processes and standard work for key distributor program elements.
• Fully own and be the main point of contact for key program elements.

Atkore is committed to creating an engaged and aligned workforce that drives collaborative culture. Our team strives for breakthrough results, stays focused on being standout leaders, and fully supports decisions of the Company. We consistently live the Atkore mission, strategic priorities, and behaviors, all in a way that’s consistent with our core values. Together, we build strong leaders that continually endeavor to move us forward.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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