Marketing Strategist - Chicago
Job Description
Marketing Strategist - Chicago or DC - hybrid role - 2 days in-office:
Our client, a full-service marketing agency, is seeking a savvy marketing strategist to join and lead their collaborative marketing team in Chicago. This is a hybrid role which requires 2 days per week in the office.
Responsibilities
- Maintain proactive, direct contact with clients. Conduct strategic engagement with clients to provide high-level marketing recommendations.
- Participate in strategic marketing meetings and client presentations
- Review and approve all scopes of work and budgets before going to the client
- Attend client events and perform research, press management, social media posting, photo/video art direction, etc. As needed
- Monitor and strategically guide account and creative teams, as well as specialists, to execute results-driven campaigns
- Communicate/translate strategic objectives to internal team members to ensure projects are completed in alignment with strategy
- Support account directors in the creation of strategic analyses and development of personas as well as strategic and tactical plans
- Support account and creative teams in brand identity, concept and message platform development
- Manage direct reports and lead the hiring process
- Mentor account team members
- Efficiently and effectively manage bandwidth and resources of account circle to maximize profitability and performance
- Participate in new business development efforts including writing proposals and developing and breaking down budget worksheets
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of marketing experience is required. 10+ years marketing experience, including agency, B2B event and/or association experience strongly preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in related field (marketing, business) preferred
- Ability to lead an internal marketing team.
- Experience with direct reports.
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Holly Liberto
President of Recruitment
Executive recruiting since 2006, specializing in the placement of professionals nationwide in the areas of marketing, digital marketing, analytics, sales, operations, human resources, finance/accounting, supply chain/logistics, and many more.
Holly is a results-driven professional with almost 20 years of recruiting experience. She has transitioned her experience in the marketing field into recruiting and has had successes placing candidates from the c-suite level to manager level. She works in various industries such as: CPG, pharmaceutical/biotechnology, retail, agency/management consulting, logistics, and many others.
Holly holds a B.A. in arts & sciences from Syracuse University.
Mom of two beautiful daughters and yoga enthusiast. “Yoga has been part of my life for four years and my practice has helped me grow both spiritually and physically, both on and off the mat. Yoga inspires me to live each day more mindfully.”