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Marketing Manager

Klauer Manufacturing Company

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ID: 79156

Posted On 08/22/2025

Job Overview

**Job Title:** Marketing Manager

**Exemption:** Salaried – Exempt

**Base Salary Range** : Competitive Pay + Bonus Opportunities

**Reports to:** Director of Sales

Job Description:

As we grow our footprint and expand our product portfolio to better serve our customers, we’re looking for a dynamic and experienced Marketing Manager to support this growth initiative. The Marketing Manager is responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive marketing strategy to drive brand awareness, lead generation, and sales growth across multiple channels, including digital marketing, content creation, public relations, trade shows, and sales enablement. This role oversees brand management and ensures consistent messaging while leading initiatives in SEO/SEM, social media, email marketing, and website optimization. The manager conducts market research to guide brand positioning, collaborates closely with sales and product teams, and manages the marketing budget. Additionally, the role involves coordinating with national brands like TopShield and TriBuilt, James Hardie, and LP, measuring campaign performance, and staying ahead of industry trends to maintain a competitive edge in the metal building products market.

What does Klauer ask of you? - Essential Duties of the Marketing Manager:

+ Strategic Leadership: Create and implement a comprehensive marketing strategy to drive revenue growth. Encompassing digital marketing, content marketing, public relations, trade shows, advertising, and sales enablement to achieve company goals for brand awareness, lead generation, and sales growth.

+ Brand Management: Oversee the development and maintenance of the company's brand identity, ensuring consistent messaging and visual representation across all marketing channels.

+ Budget Management: Develop and manage the marketing budget, ensuring efficient allocation of resources and maximizing return on investment (ROI) for marketing activities.

+ Market Research and Analysis: Conduct thorough market research to identify trends, customer needs, competitive landscape, and opportunities for new product positioning and market penetration.

+ Digital Marketing: Direct and manage all digital marketing activities, including SEO/SEM, social media marketing, email marketing, website content, and online advertising campaigns.

+ Sales Enablement: Collaborate with the sales team to develop effective marketing materials, tools, and training programs that support their efforts and drive sales conversions.

+ Public Relations and Communications: Manage media relations, develop press releases, and identify opportunities for increasing brand visibility through industry publications and events.

+ Trade Show and Event Management: Plan and execute the company's participation in relevant trade shows, conferences, and industry events to generate leads and build brand awareness.

+ Team Leadership and Development: Lead, mentor, and manage marketing team members, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.

+ Performance Measurement and Reporting: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs), track marketing campaign performance, analyze data, and provide regular reports on results and recommendations for optimization.

+ Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with sales, product development/technical expert, and other departments to ensure alignment of marketing strategies with overall business goals.

+ Industry Trends: Continuously monitor and analyze trends in the metal building products industry and marketing best practices to ensure the company remains competitive and innovative.

+ External Collaboration: Collaborate with third-party vendors as needed to initiate marketing campaigns.

The Ideal Candidate:

Klauer seeks solutions-oriented candidates to implement company strategy and objectives within their department. The goal is to promote cultural values and persevere through obstacles to achieve winning results for Klauer and its customers. The Marketing Manager possesses the qualifications and characteristics listed below:

+ Self-motivated and proactive

+ Able to operate resourcefully in dynamic environments.

+ Organized, detail-oriented, and proficient at follow-up.

+ Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.

+ Ability to interact with team members and department heads with candor, tact, patience, and diplomacy.

+ Other, specific to the department and/or role within the department

Experience & Education:

+ Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, or related field.

+ 5 years of marketing management experience, preferably within the building materials industry.

Who is Klauer Manufacturing Company?

Founded in 1870, Klauer was built on hard work, quality products, and service. Our mission is to enable our customers in the building products industry to win through the quality, consistency, and predictability of everything we do. We have three locations in Dubuque, IA, where our goal is to provide our employees with a safe and family-oriented work environment. As a team, we maintain our mission through our cultural values and company priorities: safety, attitude, effort, and accountability.

What can you expect from Klauer Manufacturing** **?

You can expect to feel part of the Klauer Manufacturing family, which is inclusive, regardless of gender, background, disability, or status. We offer a generous benefits package for all team members, including work-hour flexibility, health, vision, dental, company-paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, 401(k) retirement plan, 10 paid holidays, 2 weeks’ vacation, paid funeral leave, and paid jury duty.

Physical Demands:

Extended periods of sitting at a desk while working on a computer or attending meetings. Regular use of hands and fingers to type on a keyboard, operate a mouse, perform other computer-related tasks, and manipulate small objects. Ability to view computer screens for extended periods and differentiate colors, fonts, and details on the screen. Occasional lifting weighing up to 25 pounds. Ability to reach items stored in cabinets or on shelves above or below desk level. Ability to hear and speak clearly for communication purposes, both in person and over the phone. Ability to move within the office space, including walking to different areas, standing for short periods, and navigating around furniture and equipment. Endurance to maintain focus and productivity during regular working hours. Maintaining proper posture to prevent strain or injury, including adjusting chair and monitor heights for ergonomic comfort.

Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Iowa Civil Rights Commission Chapter 216, it is the policy of Klauer Manufacturing to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or candidate with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship for Klauer Manufacturing Company. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact the Human Resources Department.

Primary Contact

1715007044957

Brittany Parker

Talent Acquisition Specialist, Human Resources

563-207-4143

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Job Details

Categories

Manufacturing

Sales/Service

Location

Dubuque, IA

Shift

First Shift

Flexible

Job Type

Employee

Full/Part

Full Time

Pay/Salary

Competitive Pay + Bonus Opportunities

Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Retirement Plan

Paid Vacation

PTO (Paid Time Off)

Paid Holidays

Qualifications

Education

Bachelors

Experience

5-10 Years

Company ID

1105

Job REQ #

\# Positions

1

Start Date

20250822

End Date

20250930

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Klauer Manufacturing Company

About the Company

Founded by Peter Klauer in 1870, Klauer Manufacturing Company was built on hard work and quality products and service to our customers. The same standards hold true today as we continue our fifth generation of this family-owned operation.

Growing out of a hardware and tin shop, we have a history of sustainable evolution based on our commitment to providing the highest-quality products possible. Now running 150 employees strong with two facilities totaling 250,000 square feet, we are prepared to fulfill all your sheet metal building products needs.

Our Mission Statement

•To enable our customers to win through the quality, consistency, and predictability of everything we do, while providing a safe and family-oriented working environment for all.”

Cultural Values

+ **Safety**

+ Take Pride in Safety

+ Be Responsible for our Individual Safety and of Those Around Us

+ See Something, Say Something

+ **Attitude**

+ Be Part of the Team and Have Fun

+ Respect Co-Workers, Customers and Vendors

+ Understand Mistakes are Learning Opportunities

+ **Effort**

+ Maintain Intellectual Curiosity

+ Work Hard and Think Smarter

+ Persevere Through Problems to Find Solutions

+ **Accountability**

+ Act with Integrity and Honesty

+ Be Responsible for Internal and External Customers

+ Take Pride in Our Work and Our Company