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Are you a high energy self-starter who is motivated to succeed? Are you interested in partnering with horticultural businesses nationwide to provide cost effective and timely solutions for their tool and supply needs?Are you interested in joining a company with a world-class reputation, competitive compensation and excellent benefits? Then the A.M. Leonard company is the place for you.
Each day we continue to build on our 127-year legacy of providing quality products and superior service to the horticultural industry. A.M. Leonard is committed to recruiting, hiring and retaining talented people to help us achieve our goals. When you join us you’ll become part of an innovative culture that helps our customers grow and prosper. We are dedicated to ensuring employees have the resources needed to care of themselves and their families. Our culture, our environment, our services and products, and most of all, our people, make this a great place to work.
What’s In It for You?
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Competitive compensation: base salary with unlimited commission and an established customer base
Monthly and annual bonus programs
Average first-year earnings: $32,000 to $44,000
Progressive potential growth: Current top performers earning $60,000 - $100,000+
Training Program
401(k) with company vesting and matching
Medical, vision, dental insurance
Superior work environment
What We Want:
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Passion for selling and building relationships
Horticultural experience or interest preferred, but not mandatory
Demonstrates enthusiasm, an entrepreneurial spirit, and high degree of ownership and accountability for achieving results
Ability to quickly learn new information and adapt to a changing industry
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to organize, multi-task and prioritize opportunities
Digitally savvy; strong proficiency with MS Office and the Internet as a research and sales tool
What to do Next:
If you think you have what it takes, please follow these steps:
- Call our Recruiting Line at (937) 381-1333. You will have up to five minutes to give us your name and answer three questions.
- Tell us something significant about yourself that we cannot read in your resume.
- Tell us what most attracts you to this position.
- Tell us what qualities or characteristics that you possess that would make you successful in this position.
- Send your resume by email to djackson@amleo.com. Pre-employment Drug Testing is required. EOE
Position: Marketing Operations Manager
Position Description
A.M. Leonard Inc., one of the largest national horticultural tool and supply companies serving the green industry for over 127 years, requires a Marketing Operations Manager to help drive online and offline sales for A.M. Leonard. This position reports directly to the Director of Marketing and works closely with the Marketing, Merchandising and Creative departments to strongly lead marketing catalog and collateral production that improves the profitability of A.M. Leonard.
Main responsibilities include: establish timeline and leading catalog production to meet deadlines, analyze catalog results and product presentation to influence catalog pagination, lead vendor source selection, and coordinate resources of different disciplines to produce marketing collateral.
Position Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing/Communications preferred with 5-10 years of related experience.
- Strong applied knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Access.
- Excellent project management skills with the ability to solve complex problems, successfully manage multiple projects at once, and persist through significant obstacles for issue resolution.
- Proven ability to guide team to consistently meet deadlines while remaining calm within a tight production schedule.
- Project management experience with creative/marketing/pre-press/printing processes including proactive ability to consistently meet deadlines and milestones per a tight schedule.
- Ability to succinctly promote product benefits and features, to consistently standardize product copy per branding/competitive advantages, and to understand product know-how on a high level to present primary benefits for the customer.
- Hands-on analysis and experience conducive to catalog pagination.
- Excellent oral communication to effectively verbalize over the phone or in person.
- Excellent written skills for reporting, documentation, and product copy.
- Excellent proofreading skills with key attention to detail to facilitate the release of 100% error-free artwork and copy including technical accuracy. This includes adaptability per the medium of emails, articles, product copy, or press releases.
- Enthusiasm and ability to learn new concepts to improve marketing and professional skills that apply to this role.
- Adaptability to quickly move from one task to another without losing focus, and being able to resume progress of previously started tasks seamlessly.
- Eagerness to initiate new marketing ideas and identify potential marketing opportunities.
- Extensive experience in gardening or landscaping industry highly appreciated.
Major Areas of Accountability
- Lead and be ultimately responsible for timely execution of catalog production including the scheduling, vendor selection, product selection, pricing/offers, and printing phases.
- Lead and be ultimately responsible for executing square inch analysis and understanding offline catalog performance to develop catalog pagination for the A.M. Leonard brand. This work will incorporate matchbacks and online sales as possible.
- Manage each brand’s web marketing coordinator who develops content for web, social media, and emails.
- Coordinate with personnel from different disciplines to formulate an annual production plan while documenting/incorporating lessons learned to enable continuous improvement.
- Clearly and concisely communicate with all external print-related vendors on topics including budgets, timelines, feasibilities, objectives, shipping methods.
- Consistently update and inform creative/marketing/merchandising leads of all project-related tasks and their progress during the creative/marketing process.
A.M. Leonard offers compensation based on background and experience, an excellent benefits package and a superior work environment. Skills testing and a Pre-employment Drug Test are required. Please send resumes to djackson@amleo.com EOE
Position: Web Developer
Position Description
A.M. Leonard Inc., one of the largest national horticultural tool and supply companies serving the green industry for over 127 years, is seeking an experienced web developer to define, code and implement front-end development for the strategic goal of increasing e-commerce sales. This position reports directly to the Director of Marketing and works closely with the Marketing, Creative and Information Technology departments as well as third party vendors.
Main responsibilities include: coordination with SaaS vendor to understand how custom functionality fits with standard software, collaborating with Marketing to define project requirements and translating those requirements into efficient, error-free programming, and closely working with IT back-end database developers for smooth integration with ERP system.
Position Requirements
- Associate degree in MIS or CIS or equivalent experience with 2 years minimum in developing and marketing e-commerce websites with experience in object-oriented programming.
- Strong current knowledge and experience with HTML /CSS standards via industry-accepted best practices (understanding of HTML 5 a plus).
- Experience with using ASP.net and its integration with SQL database/Microsoft Access.
- Be familiar with creating and maintaining AJAX-driven applications; including XML familiarity for better implementation of AJAX.
- Have strong working knowledge in JavaScript for enhancing website presentation.
- Understand Photoshop and graphic design requirements to enable effective coordination with Creative Department.
- Experience in FBML or similar for coding applications in social media.
- Excellent oral communication whether over the phone or in person.
- Ability to learn new web technologies quickly, and to use them to enhance web presentations while improving programming and professional skills.
- Ability to persist through and overcome significant coding and hardware obstacles; is logical and methodical when troubleshooting problems.
- Eagerness to initiate new marketing ideas and identify potential marketing opportunities.
Major Areas of Accountability
- Use strong CSS knowledge to ensure overall browser compatibility.
- Implement efficient ASP.net code with JavaScript/AJAX as needed to enhance website useability on a stable, quick-loading platform.
- Support IT initiatives as needed for upgrading server hardware/software as needed, and ensuring absolute stability of all web-related components.
- Work to ensure absolute security of all websites, including safeguarding online transactions, server security, and protection of intellectual property wherever possible.
- As needed, work with web marketing coordinators to strengthen marketing emails.
- As needed, perform validation unit and system testing of own code, and that of third-party SaaS developers.
A.M. Leonard offers compensation based on background and experience, an excellent benefits package and a superior work environment. Skills testing and a Pre-employment Drug Test are required. Please send resumes to djackson@amleo.com EOE
