Senior Marketing Strategist - Full-Time Contract

Maryland, USA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive strategic marketing leadership to translate research into integrated, go-to-market plans and long-term roadmaps.

  • Own end-to-end strategy development grounded in research and business outcomes.
  • Must-have: ability to synthesize complex data into actionable multi-channel plans.
  • Standout: develops 12–24 month growth roadmaps and integrated briefs.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end strategy development, including research, audits, and opportunity identification
  • Synthesize qualitative and quantitative data into insights on customer behavior, motivations, and barriers
  • Identify root business problems (not just marketing symptoms) and define strategic approaches
  • Develop clear POVs that guide decisions across channels, creative, and customer experience
  • Conduct and synthesize research including: Competitive and category analysis
  • Market dynamics and whitespace identification
  • Audience segmentation and behavioral insights
  • Customer journey and experience mapping
  • Translate research into implications, not just findings
  • Translate insights into compelling strategic narratives and actionable recommendations

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field.
  • 5–8+ years of experience in marketing strategy, brand strategy, or integrated marketing roles (agency or client-side)
  • Demonstrated ability to develop insight-driven strategies, not just manage channels
  • Experience translating business challenges + goals into clear marketing approaches, narratives and actionable multi-channel plans
  • Strong ability to synthesize complex information into simple, compelling recommendations
  • Strong experience guiding execution teams and providing strategic direction across channels.
  • Experience developing audience personas, conducting market research, and performing competitive analyses.
  • Strategic thinking, problem framing, insight generation and synthesis
  • Communication, storytelling (written + verbal), curiosity and intellectual rigor
  • Ability to influence without direct authority

Preferred

  • Experience in pharmaceutical and/or healthcare marketing
  • Experience working with enterprise-level clients and complex marketing ecosystems
  • Demonstrated ability to use AI as a thinking partner—enhancing speed and depth of analysis—while maintaining strong independent judgment and strategic rigor
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Ironmark

We are the simplifiers. Our focus is on making success as easy as possible for our clients. So as the marketing world has grown increasingly more complex, we’ve grown our services to keep it all uniquely manageable for you. Today we are a creative-data-marketing-technology-web design-print production-logistics-communications firm. It’s a combination that offers the end-to-end digital and physical marketing services you need in the simplest, most efficient way possible — from one proven partner. At Ironmark, it’s not about trying to be all things to all people. Just all things to smart marketers. Because that’s how we help them simplify the modern world.

Founded in 1955
Annapolis Junction, Maryland, USA
213 employees (39 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
30.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$9.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
46.1%
Direct
42.8%
Referral
6.6%
Social
3.4%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~213

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
21 (10% of company)
Median Career Experience
9.5 years
Median Tenure
3.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Last Raise
Series Unknown, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2022
    Series Unknown