True Talent Group, the fastest growing marketing, creative and interactive recruitment firm in the twin cities is helping a great client find their next contract email marketing specialist. The Email Marketing Specialist is responsible for the day-to-day, hands-on designing and execution of email marketing programs in support of company and business unit objectives. This includes  setup, maintenance, and quarterly review of reoccurring and triggered email communications. Additionally, this individual maintains a current understanding of email marketing best practices and applies them to the execution of  email campaigns in collaboration with the email marketing team.  This position is eight weeks in length with opportunity to extend and/or be considered for full-time opportunities as the business may allow.

Examples of Work Performed:
- Responsible for building email campaigns, database selection, HTML presentation and quality assurance of all outbound campaigns.
- Performs day-to-day email marketing activities including, but not limited to, email campaign set-up, scheduling, testing, tagging and deployment of one-time, recurring, triggered and dynamic content-driven campaigns.
- Troubleshoots technical issues related to HTML templates, list segmentation and other aspects of email execution, as required.
- Stays abreast of and recommends email marketing best practices with coding, design and testing of email campaigns.

Qualifications

Education:
- Four-year college degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

Experience
- 2 years of HTML
- 1 year of Adobe Photoshop
- Experience with email tools (NCR, Exact Target, Responsys etc.) highly desired
- 1 year of hands-on experience in email campaign building and list selection preferred

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Other Characteristics:
- Ability to troubleshoot coding problems
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- Good understanding of database concepts and segmentation
- Ability and desire to learn quickly
- Interest in email marketing
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction, while also functioning and contributing as part of a team
- Attention to details
- Ability to operate a personal computer
- Proactive, energetic personality; inquiring, investigative mind  If this is you, apply online today at www.truetalentgroup.com. No phone calls please!