Partner Marketing Specialist

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Are you actively looking for a new opportunity? Or just checking the market? Well… you might just be in the right place! We are currently looking for a Partner Marketing Specialist to join our NOAM team, based out of our Montreal office

Lightspeed provides the leading global, cloud-based, omnichannel commerce platform for retail and hospitality businesses around the world to simplify, scale and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our commerce platform transforms and unifies merchants’ digital and physical operations by enabling multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions and connections to supplier networks.

The NoAM Partner Marketing Specialist is a critical role on the Marketing team. You will develop and lead the strategy, creation, coordination and execution of our channel partnership marketing programs with partners across NoAM in alignment with our marketing strategy and partner sales. The role requires you to work collaboratively across multiple stakeholder groups both internally and externally, including the partner organization, sales leadership, NoAM marketing and your strategic partners.

You will own the development of a scalable EMEA Marketing plan across partners, directly manage the execution of Lightspeed-led partner campaigns, support partner’s execution of demand generation and have responsibility for reporting and performance analysis to maximise impact.

What you’ll be responsible for

• Building scalable marketing plans to raise brand awareness and support demand generation programs for our distribution partner sales team in NoAM.
• Together with the content specialist, developing and localizing partner sales enablement tools and customer-facing sales content.
• Working cross-functionally to support partner communications, internal and external sales enablement materials - Legal, Partner Operations, Distribution Partnerships
• Working closely with the rest of marketing org: Events, PMM, IMM, Brand (Content, Design, PR) to initiate co-marketing initiatives and report on ROI
• Developing marketing-in-a-box campaigns, to enable partners to build brand awareness around Lightspeed and its product ecosystem. 
• Collaborating with strategic partners to develop a calendar and manage co-marketing activities such as joint partner events, webinars, blogs, case studies, masterclasses, and PR.
• Tracking and measuring the effectiveness of the partnership marketing programmes.
• Building and maintaining engagement with key NoAM partners
• Providing partners with access to marketing tools and resources and ensuring Toolkit is up to date on a quarterly basis

What you’ll be bringing to the team

• A passion for technology, B2B and for getting things done
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and high-velocity environment 
• Experience developing partner-facing programs, communications and working within the channel and partner community 
• Experience in managing multiple partners of varied sizes to build marketing programs appropriate to their goals
• Able to manage multiple tasks, effectively prioritize and consistently meet objectives on time
• Proven capacity to excel in a fast-paced, multi-faceted, team environment
• Experience in collaborating, communicating and presenting information across multiple internal and external cross-functional teams and stakeholders at all levels.
• Well-developed interpersonal and organizational skills; detail-oriented, highly motivated and self-starter attitude.

Even better you have, but not necessarily

• Work experience in marketing within high-technology companies
• Hospitality, retail or eCommerce B2B experience
• Fluent in a 2nd language: German, French or Dutch
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing or equivalent experience
• Experience working across international teams and in a multicultural environment 

We know that people are more than what’s on their CV. If you’re unsure that you have the right profile for the role... hit the ‘Apply’ button and give it a try!

To all recruitment agencies: Lightspeed does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. If we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy, Lightspeed will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

What’s in it for you?

You’ll have the opportunity to partner with amazing companies and have a high impact on our company growth. In return for your skills and experience, you will be offered an attractive package of compensation which involves a competitive base salary and a long-term equity incentive (we are all owners).

Come live the Lightspeed experience...

• Ability to do your job in a truly flexible environment;
• Genuine career opportunities in a company that’s creating new jobs every day;
• Work in a team big enough for growth but lean enough to make a real impact.

… and enjoy a range of benefits that’ll keep you happy, healthy and (not) hungry:

• Company pension program
• Health and wellness benefit 
• Mental health online platform and counselling & coaching services
• Paid leave and assistance for new parents
• Language classes & LinkedIn Learning license
• Volunteer day