Marketing Consultant VI, Acquisition and Retention Marketing

The Marketing Consultant 6, Audience-based marketing strategist will play a pivotal role in shaping and implementing the audience-based marketing strategies. This individual will be responsible for understanding, identifying and targeting specific audience segments, developing marketing plans, using data and insights to drive audience growth and engagement across multiple channels. 

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is responsible for leading the development and execution of multi-channel direct marketing campaigns including production schedule, budget, and metrics to drive customer acquisition and member retention. This position drives revenue-qualified leads, partners with the Analytics team to leverage data modeling targeted at increasing response, application, and funding rates, including A/B testing, collaborates with Creative team on copy and creative development, and manages external vendors and agencies to ensure quality of output, project schedules are adhered to, and costs are managed.

• Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.


• Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.


• Leads and conducts complex market data collection and synthesis by interpreting data and insights to turn them into actionable, evidence-based marketing plans; partnering with research and strategy teams to gather marketplace and consumer dynamics to drive marketing strategies; defining market research needs; partnering with analytics teams to drive marketing strategies and track performance; and reporting and optimizing ROI on strategies and tactics.


• Leads and drives the design and implementation of complex marketing strategies by ensuring strategies support membership growth, retention, and product/service promotion initiatives to meet business goals; developing strategic plan deliverables; verifying brand consistency and brand standard compliance through all marketing channels; conducting and leveraging market research to identify new opportunities and/or validate assumptions; analyzing sales and marketing metrics; creating reports and presenting results; tracking progress to overall enterprise objectives; and driving improvement and optimization efforts toward established goals.


• Leads and drives the development and implementation of complex strategic go-to-market plans by managing relationships with channel partners; assessing and validating channel partner needs and performance on an ongoing basis; investigating audience needs using data-driven learnings to evaluate and identify new multi-channel opportunities; and leading channel marketing programs to drive go-to-market strategies.


• Leads the development and execution of integrated marketing communications programs and strategies by integrating business-to-business, business-to-consumer, and line of business; analyzing information from market research teams to understand stakeholder attitudes and needs; translating insights into promotional strategies; working with enterprise teams to align activities; communicating consistent positioning and messages across all media; evaluating effectiveness of plans, programs, and campaigns; and making recommendations to optimize campaigns.


• Leads and drives complex marketing projects by developing and updating project plans; identifying and managing cross-functional stakeholder contacts; assembling teams based on project needs and team member strengths; forecasting and adhering to project budget; participating in vendor selection; defining scope of vendor contracts; managing vendor relationships; presenting project updates; and managing project financials and deliverables.


• Provides direction and subject matter expertise to creative team by gathering data, research, and customer input and sign-off to develop an understanding of the work; collaborating with communication and marketing teams; developing and writing complete creative briefs that inform and inspire writers, designers, and other creative professionals; reviewing the completed brief with the customer and relevant stakeholders; and presenting the brief.