Marketing Coordinator

Socket.dev; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 52,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Thrive Program (flexible work options,

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

Coates Group seeks a Marketing Coordinator to support coordination of marketing projects, manage workflows in Asana, and assist with internal communications and content updates. The role includes event support, showroom coordination, and collaboration with global marketing teams to strengthen the Coates brand.

You will help curate social content, coordinate merchandise and vendor tasks, and contribute to market intelligence and content taxonomy.

Qualifications

• University degree required.
• 1–2 years of experience in marketing or project coordination.
• Experience with Asana workflows is preferred.
• Figma experience is a plus.
• Ability to create content for social platforms is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Support key marketing projects from a coordination perspective.
• Assist with admin tasks from a business engagement perspective and update materials.
• Coordinate marketing tasks and projects from a workflow perspective.
• Manage merchandise, ordering, stock and benchmarking for cost/quality.
• Collaborate with Marketing to promote charity activities and events.
• Support internal communications and culture initiatives (E&E/Thrive).
• Assist with content scheduling for Coates social channels.
• Collaborate on website updates and minor brand projects.
• Contribute to competitive landscape analysis and brand positioning.
• Maintain a product portal to ensure accurate product information.

Skills

Project coordination

Social content creation

Communication skills

Education

University degree

Tools

Asana

Figma

Job description

Be Part of Our Next Chapter

For over almost 60 years, our solutions have enabled impactful connections between some of the world’s leading brands and their customers. And while we’ve already done a lot of work we’re proud of, we’re just getting started! We’re a global technology company focused on creating dynamic, smart, personalized and engaging customer experiences powered by our range of digital hardware, our proprietary content management system and our industry leading signage solutions. (For example: If you’ve ordered in-store or in the drive-thru at McDonald’s somewhere in the world in the last few years, chances are you’ve interacted with our digital solutions.) We work in over 50 global markets and have 9 offices around the world, with a global headquarters proudly located in our founding home of Sydney, Australia.

Coates Group has the values of a family-owned business and the innovative spirit of a start-up, both which fuel our purpose – Creating Connections. Empowering Partnerships. Always Evolving. Through hard work, dedication and creativity, we’ve become industry leaders who have won awards and set records while remaining focused on continual growth and evolution. We are a 2x Australia Good Design Award winner and successfully completed the largest hardware deployment in Quick Service Restaurant history.

We are curious, charismatic, authentic and we value and leverage the diversity of our crew. We are imaginers, kindness enthusiasts, experts, creators, thinkers, challengers, collaborators and over-achievers. And together, as a Crew, we are revolutionizing the way the world’s leading brands leverage technology to drive the best customer experiences.

Reporting to the Global Marketing Director, this role will be responsible for supporting marketing projects from a coordination perspective, including: management of projects which are being briefed from internal business functions (P&C, Account Management, etc.), support internal BMC projects and initiatives, event coordination to support events and conventions, assist with BMC workflow coordination and support delivery of internal comms as needed.

Responsibilities

• Supports key marketing projects from a coordination perspective.
• Assists with admin tasks from a business engagement perspective - eg small edits to existing materials.
• Coordinate marketing tasks and projects from a workflow perspective.
• Manages merchandise, ordering, stock and benchmarking of prices/products to ensure we're accessing the most competitive and quality items. Build merch portal for self-service Crew orders.
• Collaborates with Marketing Manager NAM on promotion and coordination of charity-based activities, specifically RHMC.
• Supports coordination of Crewsletter and delivery of internal P&C culture initiatives(E&E/Thrive).
• Supports the creation and delivery of BAUcontent scheduling for Coates social channels.
• Collaborates with Global MarketingDirector tomake required minor updates to the Coates website.
• Actively helps with implementations of brand-related projects such as embedding of our values.
• Conduct and monitor competitor landscape, creating analysis and summary of intelligence which can be used to inform positioning of the Coates brand.
• Maintain and manage an up-to-date product portal to ensure accuracy of information to support product marketing.
• Support and provide recommendations on the taxonomy of content documentation and file control to enable Brand, Marketing & Comms team to operate in an effective way.
• Conduct desk research to support and inform positioning on industry trends and in turn help to raise the profile of key stakeholders at Coates, as well as the Coates brand.
• Support showroom management process.

Qualifications

• University qualified
• 1- 2 years of experience
• Exposure in managing workflows in Asana. Experience in Figma is preferable.
• Ability to create user generated content to share on social platforms is preferable.

Capabilities

• Must possess a ’willing to learn’ attitude and desire to develop a career at Coates
• Strong organisational skills
• Natural ability to build relationships

About Coates

We are industry leaders who have won awards and set records. We are a 2x Australia Good Design Award winner and we successfully completed the largest hardware deployment in Quick Service Restaurant history.

Join a Crew that Cares

Be part of a global team of talented, ambitious, creative people that value integrity, individuality and inclusivity. (Ask us about our Equality + Empowerment Initiatives).

The benefits include an annual market competitive bonus program and our “Thrive Program” which includes a suite of flexible work options because we’re strong believers that you should never miss an important life or work moment. Thrive also provides dedicated time to prioritize our health and wellbeing (think virtual Yoga or meditation sessions), a Global Wellness paid day off to recharge as well as a “Give Back Day” to allow our Crew an opportunity to make an impact in the community.

Be inspired To Be More

We skip the red tape and aim to always stay nimble. We’re proud of where we’ve been and are energized by where we’re going. We encourage ideas and perspectives because we know the more we have, the better we are. We work hard but have fun along the way. We push the boundaries but keep it real and authentic. We believe in the values that got us here are the ones that will continue to lead us forward. We are excited by what we’ve accomplished, but know the best is yet to come.

Coates Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, gender, religion, disability, age, political affiliation or belief, disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam Era, or citizenship status (except in those special circumstances permitted or mandated by law).