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Job Opening: Online Business Manager

Position Location

You must live and work in the Philippines because the team that you manage, lives and works here as well. Applicants not living in the Philippines cannot be considered.

Position Overview

OSP International LLC is a provider of online training resources for project managers around the world. We are located in California (USA) and we have a team of 5 Virtual Assistants throughout the Philippines. We are looking to hire a qualified Online Business Manager who will be in charge of managing the team as well as most of our online business activities. This position requires a highly qualified and motivated individual. If you have not managed a team of at least 5 people previously then we will not be able to consider your application.

General Purpose and Duties

The Online Business Manager has the primary responsibility for overseeing, managing and implementing all online business strategies, marketing activities and product delivery. This role requires strong management skills, detail-orientation and a self-starter attitude. In many ways this role functions as a partner to the company President to help free up the President to focus on creativity, strategy and growth.

You will work as partner to the President to achieve:

  •  company goals and priorities
  •  Smooth running of the business
  •  Ensure that all VAs follow through on and complete their assigned tasks.
  • Increase sales through most cost effective strategies
  •  Ensure timely implementation for all marketing strategies and program deliverables


This role also requires ruthless time management, excellent planning skills and the ability to lead and inspire our team of Virtual Assistants (VA) to achieve a common goal.Specific Tasks and Responsibilities

  • Manage our Team of Virtual Assistants. Define, assign and oversee all activities assigned to the VAs. Receive and analyze the "dailystatus emails" from all VAs and take action where necessary. Ensure that all VAs have a proper workload. Organize and hold a weekly staff meeting.
  • Set up social media technology and manage traffic strategies for Facebook, Facebook Fan pages, Squidoo, multiple twitter accounts, Linked In, Digg, StumbleUpon, etc.
  • Develop and implement all marketing activities such as blog advertising, article marketing, direct mail, google advertising, banner advertising etc.
  • Maintain most up to date blog technology including 3 – 5 weekly posts, managing versions, updating ads, updating cross-links, finding 3rd party blogs, etc.
  • Maintain our websites, web pages, upsell/downsell offers, including all corresponding auto-responders, thank you pages and necessary downloadable products. Once we offer physical products: Interface with fulfillment house to set up auto-ship.
  • Set up tracking and statistics to measure the effectiveness of all our marketing efforts.
  • Manage monthly web statistics to include traffic, conversion, list size, etc.
  • Interface with other team members as necessary to accomplish role. Keep other team members in communication loop for all initiatives, changes and/or customer challenges.
  • Research and learn about new online marketing strategies on a weekly basis. Recommend appropriate strategies for implementation and oversee appropriate rollout in our company.

Knowledge and Skills

  • Experience in all facets of social media, traffic generation tools, online marketing and ecommerce essential. Must know Joomla (from a user perpective), DreamWeaver, basic graphic design, Facebook, Twitter, Aweber, Clickbank.
  • Well-developed interpersonal skills. Ability to get along diverse personalities. Tactful, mature.
  • Discerning judgment, willing to stand up for best use of company’s time and financial resources.
  • Hiring and resource management experience essential to manage our team of VAs
  • Experience with sales of electronic products
  • Satisfactory communication skills – written and verbal.

Work Requirements

You must live and work in the Philippines because the team that you manage, lives and works here as well. This is a full-time position offering 40 hours per week. Work hours are usually 8am-5pm of your local timezone. This position will allow you to work primarily from your own home office, so you need to have:

  • A complete office set up with high speed internet connection
  • Setup for Skype with video.

Compensation

Will be commensurate with the experience and skill of the applicant

The Ideal Person for this Position

The ideal person for this role is very energetic, results-driven and is more of a finisher than a starter. Excited to be a part of someone else’s vision, the ideal candidate is more enthusiastic about being in charge of getting things done than they are driven to pursue their own creative ventures. The ideal candidate has at least 2 years experience in the online information marketing world, direct response marketing, ecommerce, business management, project management and is comfortable with a rapid paced, ever changing work environment.

This role will work very closely with a very creative, fast-moving entrepreneur who expects his team to be at the top of their game. Must be willing to occasionally work different hours, handle fires, and learn new technologies/marketing techniques when required for growth.

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Cornelius Fichtner, PMP

Project manager, PMP trainer, host of The PM Podcast, public speaker and gummi bear addict.