Sr. Specialist Marketing

Job Description

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• This position helps instill corporate brand by leading cross-functional creative teams to deliver best in-class, multi-channel creative solutions.
• This person leads the most complex and critical projects (Tier 1) within the organization, ensuring successful implementation and alignment with strategic goals.
• Will manage multiple projects, mentor junior staff, and serve as an expert to lead project management methodologies, coordination and plans.
• This role is part of the Creative team, a group within Global Marketing and External Affairs team.
• Project Leadership: Collaborate with strategists, creative directors, writers, designers to develop strategically driven creative campaigns and content that attracts, engages and activates target audiences, while increasing share of voice and brand awareness metrics.
• Lead and manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope and within budget.
• Act as central point of contact for business partners and creative team members.
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with business partners, internal teams and external partners
• Collaborate with team to establish and maintain roles and responsibilities throughout project lifecycle.
• Document project plan in project management software and maintain project documentation.
• Ensure all documentation is complete, accurate, and up to date.
• Execute scope change management and project close-out processes.
• Participate in project assessments and communicate lessons learned.
• Lead Project Management team partnership with Operations team to provide forecasting; have advanced understanding of tracking, reporting and oversight on project budget, expenditures and metrics.
• Proactively identify and manage project opportunities, issues and risks, and escalate issues in a timely manner to leadership.
• Influence the development of ideas that reinforce the values of the brand.

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Qualifications

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• Creative agency experience required; creative agency experience within a healthcare setting desired.
• Communications, Advertising, or Marketing Agency experience is beneficial.
• Strong proofreading skills and attention to detail.
• Comprehensive personal computer skills including demonstrated spreadsheet, word processing and database management capabilities are required.
• Experience working with project management tools and software.
• Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment.
• Ability to work within a team and as an individual contributor in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Ability to leverage and/or engage others to accomplish projects
• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization.
• Multitasks, prioritizes and meets deadlines in timely manner.
• Strong organizational and follow-up skills
• 7+ years experience required
• Exhibit critical thinking to connect and align bodies of work to the brand.
• Motivated and proactive, with a passion for insights-driven marketing, creative problem solving and has a deep understanding of how creative work is achieved through projects, workflows and processes.
• Demonstrate stewardship and provide project leadership to meet Division strategies and business objectives.

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Benefits

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Healthcare Insurance:  Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents healthcare coverage through BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics. Premiums are subsidized by Synectics.

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Dental Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents a dental plan through MetLife. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.

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Vision Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees vision insurance through VSP. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.401(k) Plan: The Synectics Inc. Investment Savings Retirement Plan. Synectics offers all employees who are 21 years of age or older the opportunity to invest in the 401(k) Plan on the first enrollment date that is at least 30 days after employment begins. Enrollment dates are each January 1st, April 1st, July 1st, and October 1st.

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Technical Certification Bonus: Synectics is pleased to award its employees a bonus of up to $500 for an approved professional certification. In determining the bonus amount, Synectics will consider the cost of the test(s) for any certification relating to your current position, achieved during your employment with us. Only one Certification Bonus per calendar year may be awarded per employee. Only current, active employees will be eligible to receive this bonus. It will be awarded 90 days after the Synectics office has received documentation confirming the successful completion of the certification.

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Synectics is an equal opportunity employer.