# Local Field Marketing Manager > J. Blanton Plumbing · Northbrook, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-14 **Workplace:** on_site **Department:** Marketing ## Description Build the Team. Own the Market. Book the Appointments. We’re looking for a **high-energy, sales-driven Local Field Marketing Manager** who knows how to turn conversations into opportunities. This isn’t a sit-behind-a-desk marketing job. You’ll be out in the community, leading a team of Event Marketers, finding the right events, creating local buzz, talking to homeowners, building partnerships—and most importantly, **coaching your team to book qualified appointments.** If you’ve led a **canvassing, door-to-door, event marketing, lead generation, or outside sales team**, know how to get people fired up, and love watching the numbers climb, we want to talk to you. We need a leader who can bring the **energy AND the results.** What You’ll Own - **Lead the Team & Bring the Energy:** Recruit, train, manage, and motivate Event Marketers responsible for engaging homeowners and booking qualified appointments. - **Get Appointments on the Board:** Establish clear appointment-booking expectations and hold the team accountable for individual and team performance. - **Coach the Conversation:** Develop and coach effective approaches, scripts, objection handling, assumptive booking techniques, and customer engagement strategies. - **Get in the Field:** Regularly attend events and activations to observe performance, provide real-time coaching, and show the team how it's done. - **Find the Events That Matter:** Identify, plan, organize, and execute community events, sponsorships, festivals, expos, and local activations—with a focus on opportunities, not just attendance. - **Make Friends in the Community:** Build relationships with local businesses, organizations, community groups, and other partners to expand our reach and generate customer opportunities. - **Know Your Numbers:** Track customer interactions, leads generated, appointments booked, appointment completion rates, opportunities created, sales generated, and event ROI. - **Double Down on What Works:** Determine which events and strategies we repeat, expand, improve—or never do again. - **Take Marketing to the Streets:** Execute events, neighborhood canvassing, job-site canvassing, partnerships, and other grassroots campaigns. - **Put the Right People in the Right Places:** Manage schedules and strategically deploy Event Marketers based on event opportunity, geography, and individual performance. - **Work Across the Business:** Partner with Sales, Recruiting, and Marketing to make sure opportunities don't get lost after the appointment is booked. ## Requirements **What You Bring:** - Proven experience in **sales, canvassing, door-to-door sales, field marketing, event-based lead generation, or outside sales** - Experience **managing and coaching a performance-driven team** - A track record of turning customer conversations into **appointments, leads, or sales opportunities** - Strong understanding of prospecting, approaching customers, qualifying opportunities, overcoming objections, and **asking for the appointment** - Willingness to **lead from the front**—you're comfortable jumping into an event and showing your team exactly what great looks like - Strong leadership, coaching, communication, and motivational skills - Experience setting and managing individual and team KPIs - Strong organizational and project-management skills - A competitive, results-driven mindset with a strong sense of accountability - Flexibility to work **evenings and weekends** when that's where the opportunity is - Valid driver's license and reliable transportation **Preferred:** - Experience managing **canvassing, event marketing, appointment-setting, home-services, or direct-to-consumer sales teams** - Home-services industry experience - Knowledge of local events, organizations, businesses, and partnership opportunities - Familiarity with CRM, lead tracking, and performance reporting systems - Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, communications, or a related field How You'll Know You're Winning We're not going to measure success by how many events you attended or how many flyers your team handed out. **We're going to measure what happened because you were there.** That means **appointments booked, completed appointments, quality of opportunities, conversion rates, event ROI, revenue generated, and a team that keeps getting better.** Your job is to build a team that isn't afraid to approach someone, start a conversation, have some fun, represent J. Blanton the right way—and confidently **ask for the appointment.** ## Benefits **What We Offer** - Competitive salary + **performance-based incentive opportunities** - Comprehensive benefits - Professional development and advancement opportunities - A fast-paced, growth-oriented environment - The opportunity to **build and lead your own high-performing field team** - A direct impact on J. Blanton Plumbing's growth - A company that believes work can be **competitive, challenging, successful—and still be fun** **Sound Like You?** If you're the person who naturally brings the energy, loves developing people, gets a little competitive when there's a goal on the board, and would rather be **out making things happen than sitting behind a desk talking about them**, we'd love to meet you. **Come build the team. Own the market. And make some Good Calls.** ## Apply [Apply at J. 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