Marketing Program Manager - Professional Services

Creative Circle; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A top consulting firm seeks a Marketing Program Manager to oversee content marketing strategies and execution. This role requires collaboration across teams to enhance project management and ensure successful marketing campaigns. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in content marketing, project management skills, and the ability to advise on best practices.

Benefits

Medical coverage

401(k) plan

Sick leave

Qualifications

• 7+ years of content marketing experience required.
• Experience in a global consulting firm preferred.
• Proven expertise in developing successful content marketing campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Manage project timelines and ensure task accountability.
• Collaborate with various teams on marketing strategies.
• Evaluate and advise on content marketing initiatives.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Project Management

Interpersonal Skills

Organizational Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, business, or related field

Tools

Analytics tools

Project management software

Job description

Marketing Program Manager - Professional Services

Marketing Program Manager - Professional Services

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$50.00/hr - $60.00/hr

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A top global consulting firm seeks a primarily remote Marketing Program Manager on a contract basis to work with its go-to-market team to assess and coordinate a stream of content opportunities proposed by the various business units, playing a critical function in the management of cross-team collaboration and communication between four fast-moving working groups within the marketing and sales organization.

Role

You'll ensure alignment, visibility, and accountability on deliverables. You will facilitate workflow across teams, manage timelines, surface dependencies, and flag potential bottlenecks. This role leans heavily into marketing operations and trafficking, helping keep projects on track and making sure no opportunity or task falls through the cracks. Beyond shepherding, however, you'll be relied upon to understand and even recommend appropriate marketing channels for discrete initiatives, as well as:

• play a key role in campaign strategy and taking ideas to market across a range of thought leadership, digital and social channels.
• determine the appropriate target audience and the optimal allocation of marketing resources across platforms and channels (including all earned, own and paid channels) to reach the target audience and achieve business goals.
• work with the team of editorial specialists, digital marketers and design / production resources to ensure the timely execution of the agreed marketing program for each content initiative. (Note, this role will not be responsible for output, but will collaborate with a center of excellence, comms and PR partners to have content created and/or repurposed for the appropriate channels.)
  
  

The ideal candidate has extensive publishing and promotion experience across multiple channels including print, online, social, video, podcasts, etc.

The role requires an experienced marketing professional to advise the various consulting practices and regional marketing teams on content marketing strategies and best practices for achieving business objectives. You must be capable of making business decisions with regard to the appropriate marketing motions and must be able to support and defend those decisions using data and marketing best practices. This role will collaborate with numerous stakeholders and manage multiple priorities to ensure that content marketing efforts deliver on both industry-based and service-line based needs and objectives.

How You'll Help Achieve Mutual Success

• Work with the US go-to-market team and the global Content Center of Excellence to assess the content needs and requests of the business units and to make business decisions with regard to the best channels and outlets for publication of content assets in production. Content types include executive insights white papers, special reports, slide decks, surveys, website copy, videos, podcasts, and webinars.
• Advise on strategy and professional services industry campaign best practices to ensure that each region has a sound marketing approach.
• Collaborate with Digital marketing CoE on implementation of the agreed tactics.
• Work with the digital marketing CoE to analyze in-market results for completed content marketing initiatives and develop reporting on same. Communicate with stakeholders on results, lessons learned and implications for future content marketing projects.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills & Personal Attributes

• Demonstrated ability to think analytically and develop solutions that meet the business needs of the firm
• Ability to convert conceptual ideas and complex business concepts into compelling marketing programs that support the firms goals.
• The desire to take initiative and actively contribute to the team and the firm.
• Demonstrated track record of both strategic thinking and execution skills is critical.
• Outstanding oral and written communications abilities.
• Stellar interpersonal skills a collaborative mindset with the ability to lead through influence and build strong relationships with partners and staff at all levels.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, meet/exceed deadlines, and adapt quickly to change and challenges.
• The mindset to provide superior service.
• Excellent organizational and administrative skills with strong attention to detail.
• High energy, self-motivated and able to work independently
• Strong project management, with the ability to prioritize and to adopt the marketing plans based on the evolving market needs
  
  

Education & Experience

• Prior experience in a global consulting firm is desirable, as will be professional services in general.
• Bachelors degree in marketing, communications, business, journalism, or a related field.
• A minimum 7+ years of content marketing or integrated communications experience.
• Proven expertise and track record for developing and delivering successful content marketing campaigns across all channels, ideally for a range of thought leadership content types including written reports, article and multimedia content such as videos and podcasts.
• Knowledge of website applications, social media channels, project management, analytics tools, social media, email applications a plus.
• Experience working in a highly matrixed organization such as a partnership.
  
  

In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data.

Benefits

Creative Circle's Freelance Employee benefits package includes eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) medical plan, dental/vision/term life package, discount prescription program, critical illness, accident, tele-behavioral health, and 401(k) plan. Sick leave is provided to Candidates whose assignment work location is in a state or city subject to sick leave laws. A Minimum Value (MV) PPO medical plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and paid holiday eligibility are based on length and dates of service.

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For Creative Circle to represent you for this opportunity, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa such as a H-1B, TN, or O visa. We do not support or provide training for STEM/OPT programs. Additionally, you must be physically located in and perform the work for our client in the United States.

This job was first posted by Creative Circle on 02/06/2025 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.

Creative Circle is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Creative Circle will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local law, including but not limited to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act. If you need a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact your Recruiter (the person you'll be interviewing with) or a member of our Human Resources team to make arrangements. United Healthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Creative Circle.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management and Information Technology

• Industries

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