Big Data Roundtable: How to hire for success

Specialists? Generalists? Marketers explain their hiring strategies for the data age

Understanding the tidal wave of consumer data brands can now collect has introduced all sorts of new challenges for the C-suite. Not only is there a new set of skills required on the marketing team, but big data has changed the nature of how consumers relate to brands.

Marketing convened a roundtable of four senior-level marketers to explore the challenges that exist at Canada’s biggest brands (though smaller-scaled operations will find plenty of insights here too). In this, the second portion of our three-part video series, our experts explain how they’ve staffed their teams to integrate this new area of expertise.

Panel
• John Boynton, chief marketing officer, Aimia
• Stephen Forbes, executive vice-president and chief commercial officer, CIBC
• Kerry Munro, vice-president, ecommerce and marketing, The Home Depot Canada
• Margareta Mahlstedt, vice-president of marketing, Volvo Cars of Canada

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