Marketing Coordinator, Ontario

Company Description
**AIM Global**

American Iron & Metal (AIM) is a family-owned, Canada-based company founded in 1936. Since that day, AIM has grown to be recognized as one of the World’s most sophisticated metal recyclers, specializing in the recovery and recycling of scrap metal by-products. With the growth and support of our 4,000+ valued employees AIM has evolved into a successful and multifaceted company with a global footprint and over 125 sites worldwide. The primary reason? An effective and thorough development strategy.

Today, AIM’s operations are headed by its founder’s successors: Herbert, Ronald, and Ricky Black, who have vowed to uphold the company’s long-established standards for quality. From its humble Canadian origins, AIM has grown to become a sophisticated leader in ferrous and non-ferrous metal recycling (AIM Recycling), decommissioning & demolition (Delsan AIM), auto-parts sales & recycling (AIM Kenny U-Pull), manufacturing of solder assemblies (AIM Global Solder Solutions), construction waste recycling (AIM Eco-Centre), and production of customized industrial & mining products (AIM Minesource).

**Why AIM?**

American Iron & Metal (AIM) embraces employment equity, diverse representation, and collaborative work environments. Our culture is dynamic, growth-oriented, and shares a unified passion for continued development of all business divisions. Regardless of which division you choose to develop alongside, you’ll find uncompromised devotion to performance, expansion, social responsibility, and receive the support of the AIM Group. Partnering with you, our goal is to showcase what an innovative organization can achieve while implementing diverse strategies across our various divisions for a positive outcome.

**AIM Recycling**

As a global leader in the metal recycling industry, AIM Recycling offers the community reliable and safe solutions to recycle all metals while generating maximum returns for their scrap. Through the implementation of new technologies, processes, and support from their team of engineers, AIM Recycling has streamlined how they operate and handle material and as such, continue to offer unbeatable services with high quality equipment. From a one-person operation to the largest enterprise, AIM Recycling prides itself on their customer first approach and on building transparent recycling programs that add value to any organization.

**Job Description**:
Reporting to the Director of Marketing - Ontario, the Marketing Coordinator role at AIM provides media coordination, public relations, event coordination, digital coordination, creative projects, and budgets and planning. This positions supports a hybrid work environment.

**_ Media Coordination_**
- Assist with Creative Briefs, as required, for both internal & external resources
- Implement all marketing initiatives and their placement as per approved media plans (Print media, collateral, digital media, signage, sales centre)

**_ Public Relations_**
- Participate in the design of the company’s PR strategy including sourcing new approaches and developing new strategies
- Serve as a point person on all proactive and reactive media matters related to regional and national public relations campaigns in English
- Manage donation communications, coordinating with internal departments, Digital Marketing Specialist, and media partners
- Monitor all AIM Recycling and competitor information (i.e. pricing, events, industry news, etc.)

**_ Event Coordination_**
- Collaborate and manage collateral items required for events, site openings and sponsorships (ie. Tent, heaters, food drink, DJ, parking etc).
- Assist in development of sponsorship strategy to drive brand awareness
- Attend sites openings, trade shows and events

**_ Digital Coordination_**
- Collaborate to develop social content, write and execute for all applicable outlets
- Assist with development and maintenance of social media calendar

**_ Creative_**
- Ensure accuracy of all creative before approval and execution
- Ensure that Head Office has all necessary brochures and collateral on hand at all times
- Support internal departments with creative tasks/executions as needed

**_ Budget and Planning_**
- Work with Director of Marketing to develop budgets and media plans
- Prepare RFQ submissions to vendors/suppliers (signage, media planning, etc )
- Other duties as required; The Marketing Coordinator will experience intermittent peak periods (tied to site openings, events, trade shows, etc.) that will occasionally call for longer hours, including some evenings and weekends.

**Skills**
- Dedicated/hardworking
- Customer service oriented
- Organized
- Autonomous
- Trustworthy
- Professional/Discreet
- Flexible

**Qualifications**:

- Post secondary education in marketing, advertising, or communications is beneficial
- Minimum of two to three years of relevant experience in a similar role
- Professional level communication skills
- PR knowledge and exper