Responsibilities

• Strategic Plan Translation: Lead the translation of practice-specific marketing plans into detailed briefs for the Campaign Strategy team, ensuring customer journeys are engineered to deliver BU outcomes.
• Audience & Persona Consultation: Act as the primary consultant for the Insights team on buyer profiles and influencers, providing the practice-specific logic required for build-out of segments.
• Practice Development Roadmap: Direct the strategy for practice-building initiatives, ensuring "Always Ready" materials and sales touchpoints reflect current market trends and buyer behavior.
• Cross-Functional Liaison: Partner with leaders across MCD to ensure BU priorities are reflected in enterprise roadmaps and channel strategies.
• Personalization Logic Strategy: Define the triggers and content requirements for practice-level personalization, ensuring the "right message" is delivered to the practice’s target buyers.
• Budget & Sponsorship Stewardship: Oversee the BU-specific marketing budget, providing strategic recommendations on the ROI of sponsorships and practice-level spend.
• High-Stakes Narrative Leadership: Lead the strategy and narrative development for the BU’s most complex and high-stakes pitches and proposals in collaboration with the Client Development and Pursuits & Proposal’s team.
• Optimization Consultation: Collaborate with Insights & Optimization to interpret dashboard data and proactively recommend strategic shifts in the marketing plan.
• People Leader:

Requirements

• 8+ years of applicable experience in the field (e.g., marketing or business development), with 4+ years management experience (some at the senior level preferred)
• Prior professional services industry experience and/or B2B marketing experience
• Bachelor’s Degree
• After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications
• Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as required
• Ability to travel, as required
• Preferred: Prior legal industry experience

Preferred

• Entrepreneurial by nature
• Excellent attention to detail
• Approaches tasks through a lens of quality and consistency
• Approaches tasks through a digital first lens
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with ability to facilitate and solve problems
• Ability to organize, prioritize and coordinate multiple activities often under tight timelines
• Takes a consultative approach to set goals, drive projects, and achieve outcomes
• Strong judgment
• Team-player with collaborative spirit
• Unwavering ability to handle and maintain confidentiality regarding firm information, projects, client data

Benefits

• a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits.
• In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as 25 days of Paid Time Off (“PTO”) and 10 paid holidays each year.
• We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits.