Senior Field Marketing Manager

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Senior Field Marketing Manager leading West Fraser’s wood-products marketing team across construction and industrial markets. Coaching eight professionals, strengthening customer relationships, and driving regional marketing execution.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead a team of eight field marketing professionals across assigned geographic territories
  • Set expectations, priorities, and performance objectives aligned with West Fraser’s sales, marketing, customer, and business goals
  • Conduct one-on-one meetings, performance discussions, field visits, and development planning
  • Promote a safe, respectful, inclusive, and collaborative work environment
  • Allocate territories, accounts, projects, and workloads to support market coverage, customer service, and productivity
  • Oversee regional marketing programs involving pro-dealers, retail accounts, builders, contractors, architects, engineers, and industrial customers
  • Build and maintain customer relationships through service, follow-up, technical support, and understanding customer needs
  • Guide promotion of new and existing West Fraser products and ensure accurate product and application messaging
  • Serve as senior subject matter resource for technical questions, product applications, building-code issues, and customer concerns
  • Oversee market intelligence and reporting on product usage, construction activity, customer needs, competitive threats, and emerging opportunities
  • Partner with Sales, Marketing, mill operations, technical resources, Human Resources, and other internal stakeholders
  • Ensure timely handling of product concerns and claims through documentation, communication, escalation, and coordination
  • Review team plans, activities, budgets, and results; identify performance gaps and implement corrective actions or continuous-improvement initiatives
  • Represent West Fraser at customer meetings, industry events, trade associations, conferences, and other market-facing activities
  • Contribute field perspectives to organizational planning, product strategy, sales initiatives, and marketing programs
  • Demonstrate sound judgment, integrity, humility, accountability, teamwork, and responsible decision-making

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience in field marketing, sales, construction, building materials, or the wood products industry
  • Ten or more years of progressively responsible experience related to home construction, commercial construction, building materials, industrial markets, wood products, field marketing, technical sales, or a closely related industry
  • Demonstrated experience leading, coaching, and developing employees, including setting expectations, managing performance, and supporting career development
  • Strong knowledge of construction practices, building materials, building codes, product applications, and the needs of builders, dealers, contractors, and other channel partners
  • Proven ability to translate organizational objectives into regional plans, team priorities, measurable goals, and consistent field execution
  • Strong business judgment and ability to analyze market information, customer needs, product usage, performance trends, and competitive threats
  • Excellent planning, organization, prioritization, and time-management skills
  • Ability to lead a geographically dispersed team and manage competing demands
  • Excellent written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Ability to build trust, influence decisions, resolve conflict, and collaborate effectively across functions and organizational levels
  • Strong technical aptitude and ability to communicate complex product and application information clearly and accurately
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, and other systems used for communication, planning, reporting, and performance management
  • Ability and willingness to travel regularly within the assigned region and to other locations as business needs require
  • Must be able to travel via car and air when required
  • Engineering, architecture, building science, construction management, or related professional education or accreditation is an advantage
  • Advanced knowledge of structural wood products, including OSB, plywood, lumber, and engineered wood products is an advantage
  • Experience reading and interpreting construction documents, specifications, and applicable building-code requirements is an advantage
  • Experience developing talent, succession plans, standardized work practices, and measurable continuous-improvement initiatives is an advantage
  • Experience partnering with sales, marketing, manufacturing, technical, and Human Resources teams in a matrixed organization is an advantage

Benefits:

  • Full-time remote position
  • Regular travel within the assigned region and to other locations as business needs require
  • Opportunity to lead, coach, develop, and support a team of eight field marketing professionals
  • Opportunity for career development and succession planning involvement
  • Participation in customer meetings, industry events, trade associations, and conferences