Content Marketing Specialist

Kehoe Designs; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Kehoe Designs is looking for a Mid-Senior Marketing Content Coordinator to produce creative content and manage social media for an array of brands. This role emphasizes independent judgment and innovative storytelling skills to enhance brand engagement and market awareness. The right candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment and contribute to the creative side of event design.

Benefits

Health Insurance: Medical, dental, and vision insurance options available

401(k) plan with company matching

Opportunities for skill development and career advancement

Flexible scheduling, including evening and weekend availability

Safe and supportive work environment

Qualifications

• 4+ years of B2B & B2C brand messaging experience.
• Exceptional organizational and communication skills.
• In-depth knowledge of platform optimization and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Manage content generation and executions for social media.
• Attend events for content capturing and brand representation.
• Collaborate with creative and sales teams to uphold brand guidelines.

Skills

Professional presentation design

Graphic design

Photography

Videography

Editing

Short form copy writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, journalism or hospitality

Tools

Adobe

Canva

Hubspot

Google Analytics

Meta/Tik Tok/YouTube analytics

Job description

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This range is provided by Kehoe Designs. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$55,000.00/yr - $60,000.00/yr

Position Overview

The Marketing Content Coordinator produces creative collateral and manages social media accounts for the Kehoe Designs' family of brands which includes Kehoe Designs, The Geraghty, BlackOak Technical Productions, and Floral Exhibits. This position uses strategic story-telling to grow the business, increase market awareness, and improve market share by effectively creating, sourcing, managing, and distributing impactful content to our social media audiences as well as prospective clientele. This position uses independent judgment and reports directly to the Marketing Manager.

Professional presentation design and graphic design, as well as professional social media account growth and management experience are paramount necessities for this position. Additionally, a firm demonstrable grasp of photography, videography, editing, and short form copy writing are a must.

Our Mission Values | Our Commitments

Each employee works together to strive to create the best event design and tradeshow company by:

• improving our communication,
• showing that we care about each other and the company,
• focusing on delivering quality , and
• highlighting professionalism through personal excellence with shared passion, dedication, and commitment to client value .
  
  

Traits for Success

• Fresh Perspective with a sense of humor.
• Bold, fearless, passionate, innovative.
• Unique, crafty wordsmith.
• Able to pivot quickly.
  
  

Essential Duties

Who you are: a passionate creative for the events industry who leverages experience with creativity and a keen eye for the unique storytelling enabled by our brand and our depth of comprehensive business offerings. Outside the box thinking is truly embraced; exemplifying exceptional organization and effectiveness in high-expectation and fast moving, independent environments will make you the right fit.

• Manages social media accounts for family of brands, building genuine connections with audiences.
• Leads all areas of content generation and executions, content calendar development, asset management, creative activation concepts, campaign and paid recommendations and overall quality control.
• Gatekeeper of community management including responding to comments and consistently engaging to grow reach and engagement.
• Actively assesses competitive and aspirational landscape.
• Must be able to attend events for content capturing. Required to attend Saturday events at least 2x per month on modified schedule.
• Attends client/marketing events as needed to represent the brand and capture content.
• Produces creative collateral, using strategic storytelling to grow business for all brands within the Kehoe Designs family, to increase market awareness and market share by creating, sourcing, managing and distributing impactful content through all channels to both existing clientele and prospective clients.
• Planning, writing, designing and publishing physical and digital marketing/sales/advertising assets, website updates, internal templates and brand guidelines.
• Brings the brand into every asset – ensuring that storytelling, tone and visuals are consistent and compelling even in performance-optimized formats.
• Manages orders, invoicing and payment communications with third party relationships.
• Works closely with Creative team and Sales team to uphold brand guidelines, ideate and produce on-brand concepts and assets to achieve goals.
• Occasional long form content production (written, video) including but not limited to blogs, case studies or weekly team recaps.
• Continual business improvement, identifying processes or opportunities to streamline, modernize or refine in support of overall business objectives and team success.
• Support Sales, Business Development, Marketing and President in independent projects that increase visibility, drive bottom line and produce impactful headway for conversion goals.
  
  

Other Duties And Safety Requirements

• Complies with all department and company safety guidelines, procedures, and rules.
• Mentors safe work practices to co-workers and team.
• Completes all safety training as directed and within established timelines.
• Interfaces professionally with all people, internal and external, in a kind and respectful manner.
• Completes all Human Resources and Payroll tasks and notifications through the Employee Self Service Online Portal as needed, as directed and within established timelines.
• Assists in other departments as needed and directed.
• May perform other duties as required.
  
  

Qualifications

• Exceptional organizational and interpersonal communication skills.
• Digital native with strong creative POV and a passion for social trends, storytelling and visual craft
• In depth knowledge of platform optimization, understanding of best practices per channel and leveraging data to be proactive and appropriately reactive to trends and shifts in platform functionalities to continually evolve company objectives.
• Professional presentation design and graphic design including the ability to communicate creative ideas clearly for other teams to understand, support and execute against.
• Adept in Adobe, Canva, Hubspot, Google analytics and social (Meta/Tik Tok/YouTube) analytics.
• Professional social media account growth and management experience
• 4+ years of successfully executing a compelling professional B2B & B2C brand messaging.
• Professional social media account growth and management experience
• Firm demonstrable grasp of photography, videography, video editing and short form copy writing
• Independent judgement, self-starter, time management and prioritization, and communicating across departments, with third parties, and upward through leadership
• Critical eye for detail and brand identity, balanced with keen understanding of client perspective and needs per brand
• Bachelors degree with emphasis in business, marketing, journalism or hospitality preferred.
• Is willing and able to be on-site at events and tackle social media postings some evenings and weekends
  
  

Physical And Work Environment Requirements

• Ability to work from our office full time.
• Availability to work a custom schedule including Saturday events at least 2x per month.
• Ability to use a computer 75% the workday.
• Ability to sit up to 75% of the workday.
• Ability to be mobile 25% of the workday.
• Required to move throughout the buildings during the workday.
• Ability to travel to client and venue locations for events.
• Must have 20/20 vision with correction.
  
  

Pay & Benefits | What You’ll Receive

• Health Insurance: Medical, dental, and vision insurance options available full-time.
• Retirement Plan: 401(k) plan with company matching.
• Training & Development: Opportunities for skill development and career advancement.
  
  

Other Benefits

• Flexible scheduling, including evening and weekend availability.
• Safe and supportive work environment.
  
  

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Kehoe Designs is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Marketing and Sales

• Industries

  Events Services

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