Marketing Associate

CBI Midwest; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hands-on training

One-to-one development

Team events

Performance-based travel opportunities

Clear career progression

Job summary

CBI Midwest in Indianapolis is seeking a Marketing Associate to help bring client campaigns to the market, learn their mission, and turn messages into conversations that inspire involvement.

You’ll gain hands-on experience delivering campaigns, analyzing audience responses, and understanding how thoughtful communication drives measurable results.

This full-time, on-site role offers hands-on training, coaching, and a clear path to greater responsibility as you grow.

Qualifications

• Background in marketing, retail, hospitality, customer service, events, or related fields is valued.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills are important.
• Ability to work toward measurable goals and thrive in a team setting.

Responsibilities

• Learning the story, mission, and objectives behind each campaign.
• Representing nonprofit and mission-led organizations across the Indianapolis market.
• Creating engaging conversations around current initiatives.
• Building awareness and generating new supporter interest.
• Contributing toward campaign acquisition and performance goals.
• Tracking feedback and identifying patterns from campaign interactions.
• Working closely with the team to continuously improve results.

Skills

Communication

Curiosity

Goal-oriented

Coachable

Reliability

Growth mindset

Job description

CBI works with mission-driven organizations to help important causes reach more people, strengthen community awareness, and generate the support needed to keep their work moving forward.

As our presence in Indianapolis grows, we’re adding a Marketing Associate to the team.

You’ll be part of the team responsible for taking our clients’ campaigns into the market - learning their mission, understanding what they want to achieve, and helping turn that message into conversations that inspire people to get involved.

The Experience

This isn’t a position where you’ll spend your day behind a desk watching campaigns from the sidelines.

You’ll gain practical experience in how campaigns are delivered, how audiences respond, and how effective communication contributes to measurable results.

Day to day, that means:

• Learning the story, mission, and objectives behind each campaign
• Representing nonprofit and mission-led organizations across the Indianapolis market
• Creating engaging conversations around current initiatives
• Building awareness and generating new supporter interest
• Contributing toward campaign acquisition and performance goals
• Tracking feedback and identifying patterns from campaign interactions
• Working closely with the team to continuously improve results

A Place to Build

We’re not expecting you to arrive knowing everything.

CBI provides hands-on training, regular coaching, and the opportunity to build your capabilities through experience. You’ll start by mastering campaign delivery and communication, with the potential to broaden your responsibilities as your performance develops.

For ambitious team members, that can mean gaining experience in campaign planning, training others, team development, and leadership.

Could This Be You?

Different backgrounds bring different strengths to our team. You might have worked in marketing, retail, hospitality, customer service, sales, events, or be looking to turn your existing people skills into professional marketing experience.

What we value is someone who is:

• Naturally confident communicating with others
• Curious and quick to learn
• Comfortable working toward measurable goals
• Coachable and willing to challenge themselves
• Reliable, proactive, and engaged
• Motivated by the opportunity to develop and progress

Working With CBI

You can expect weekly base pay with performance-based incentives, hands-on training, ongoing one-to-one development, team events, performance-based travel opportunities, and a clear pathway toward greater responsibility.

Progression at CBI is based on what you demonstrate - your performance, consistency, development, and ability to lead.

This is a full-time, on-site opportunity based in Indianapolis, IN.

If you want your first or next step in marketing to give you real experience, real responsibility, and room to develop, we’d like to meet you.