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Colleen Craig

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Professional B2B marketer with 15 years of experience in marketing. Passionate about developing integrated marketing campaigns using effective segmentation, market data, compelling content, and dynamic messaging. Driven to accomplish personal, team, and organizational objectives and goals by successfully aligning marketing strategy with business objectives.

Work Experience

April 2023 - February 2025

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August 2021 - February 2023

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April 2019 – August 2021

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Trimble, Westminster, CO / Remote

Director, Growth Marketing / Demand Generation

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Led marketing team to develop and execute campaigns in support of ~$90M marketing sourced pipeline goal and ~$30M ACV goal. Surpassed 2023 MPL goal by 10% and increased Q124 MPLs by 17% YoY. Partner cross-functionally with leadership, sales, BDRs, product marketing, content, operations, creative, and events to align campaigns with business objectives. Managed a budget of $1.5M.

 

Key Accomplishments:

  • Develop strategy for yearly and quarterly integrated marketing framework designed to deliver on business objectives, aligned with product launches, sales priorities, and buyer personas

  • Plan, execute, and supervise full-funnel marketing campaigns across Events, Digital, and Inbound including in-person and virtual events, social, display, web, content syndication, etc.

  • Develop and oversee Inbound strategy and SEO optimization across content and website

  • Write, edit, and approve promotional and long-form content such as emails, ads, social posts, eBooks, infographics, and white papers based on a deep understanding of the target audience and messaging

  • Lead sales and marketing teams through ABM strategy by gaining stakeholder alignment, implementing supporting technologies, and defining processes that maximize customer impact

  • Define, analyze, and report KPIs and metrics to executives and other stakeholders

  • Educate and advise executive and peer stakeholders on marketing best practices, results, strategy, and optimization

  • Coach and mentor team through web migration combining 3 disparate brands into one cohesive site and one product offering

  • Work with global teams to align strategy and content

  • Partner with the Trimble-wide leadership team during Long Range Planning process to create a 5-year business plan

  • Lead and coach a team of 5 through acquisition and change. Train and develop marketers on best practices in enterprise SaaS, demand generation, and inbound marketing

  • Key Success Metrics: Pipeline, MI, MPLs, CTOR, AVTR, ACTR, Form and Bot Conversions, SEO search volume and rankings

Salesforce, San Francisco, CA / Remote

Director, Growth Marketing / Demand Generation

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Owned the demand generation customer journey and developed integrated marketing campaigns in support of ~$3B marketing sourced pipeline goal and ~$1.9B ACV goal. Increased marketing pipeline by 52% and marketing ACV by 38% YoY in 2022. Challenged the status quo to drive change in processes, communication and content. Partnered cross- functionally with product marketing, GTM, content, operations, creative, digital, events, regional marketing, and community to align campaigns with business objectives. Managed a budget of $4M.

 

Key Accomplishments

  • Design and implement a data-driven, strategic, integrated marketing framework designed to deliver on business objectives, aligned with product launches, sales priorities, and buyer personas

  • Create full-funnel, content-driven demand generation campaigns designed to build, acquire, and convert audiences

  • Align segmentation with sales targeting, acquisition/expansion, and personas

  • Communicate core value propositions in promotions and content based on deep understanding of target audience purchase drivers and content best practices

  • Assess gaps in content, and create 3rd party content (analyst papers, ebooks, etc.) in conjunction with SMEs, contract writers, and content syndication vendors

  • Oversee and implement channel tactics across the marketing mix including digital and social marketing, events, and organic

  • Present strategy, data, and recommendations to executive leadership to shape the overall business strategy

  • Partner cross-functionally and globally to build and sustain relationships with peers and remove barriers

  • Coach and lead a team of 4 demand generation marketers

  • Key Metrics: Pipeline, MP, MA, MP to spend, ROAS, CPL, core digital channel metrics for email, social, display, web

PTC, Boston, MA

Director, Growth Marketing / Demand Generation

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Led marketing program strategy and development toward goals for leads and pipeline generation of ~$6M/qtr. Realized pipeline increases in MQLs by 35% and SALs by 31% vs. 2019. Virtual event MQL increase of 250% vs. goal given change in strategy due to Covid-19. Transformed programs from traditional funnel-based model to Account-based marketing model. Managed budget.

 

Key Accomplishments:

  • Develop knowledge of target market personas and customer use case to ensure account and segmentation alignment across campaigns, sales plays, and product marketing

  • Steward messaging and positioning of promotional materials and content communicate key messages based on pain points, value drivers, and use cases

  • Innovate campaign design, technology, and demand generation practices leveraging marketing tech stack for a personalized and cohesive buyer’s journey

  • ABA keyword-based targeting realized increased engagement of ~50-70%

  • Use audience behavioral triggers, known/unknown audience content curation, direct mail pilot to personalize customer journey

  • Ensure cross functional synergies and alignment by developing sales enablement materials, influencing campaign themes, content, lead scoring and pipeline progression, and guiding partner and regional marketers

  • Educate and advise executive stakeholders on marketing strategies, metrics, and best practices

  • Motivate, coach, and advocate for a team of 2 to help advance marketing skill sets, campaign ownership, and operational effectiveness

  • Key Metrics: Pipeline, MQLs and waterfall conversion %, digital channel metrics across web, social, email, display, etc

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Marketing Programs Manager

 

Developed and executed multi-channel integrated inbound and outbound marketing campaigns to effectively drive leads to opportunities and sales bookings. Partnered with sales to improve targeting using marketing technology and move leads through the buyer's journey. Worked cross functionally with product marketing, content, digital, events, and regional marketing to align marketing campaigns with objectives and ensure business success.

 

Key Accomplishments:

  • Cultivate expertise in manufacturing target audience through site visits, customer interviews, and independent research

  • Use advanced project management skill set and technologies to ensure on-time, effective delivery of campaign schedule and deliverables

  • Advocate and drive adoption of new technologies for sales and marketing team to enhance targeting and segmentation

  • Track budget and report on established metrics including MQL to SQL waterfall, sourced and influenced sales pipeline

Additional Experience 
  • SAI Global, Content Manager, Watertown, MA June 2018 – March 2019

  • Philips, Field Marketing Manager, Andover, MA August 2016 – December 2017

  • PCCA, Tradeshow Marketing Manager, Houston, TX February 2016 – August 2016

  • IDEXX, Education Marketing Manager, Amsterdam, NL September 2014 - December 2015

  • IDEXX, Senior Tradeshow Marketing Manager, Portland, ME December 2008 – September 2014

Education and Technology 

Education

  • Master of Science in Integrated Marketing - Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

  • Bachelor of Arts in Writing, Literature, and Publishing - Emerson College, Boston, MA

  • Certified Trade Show Marketer (CTSM) - Northern Illinois University

  • Certificate: Become a Copy Editor and Proofreader 

 

Technology

Eloqua, Marketo, Hubspot, 6Sense, Demandbase, Linkedin Campaigns, Google Ads, Uberflip, Pathfactory, Google Analytics, Datorama, Qliq, DOMO, Salesforce, Drift Chat, Allocadia

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