Marketing Communication Specialist

Des Moines, IA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end delivery of marketing communications projects, ensuring timely, scoped and impact-driven execution across multiple campaigns while driving governance, visibility, and process improvements for the team.

  • Project Execution: Plan, schedule, route work, and track milestones to deliver integrated campaigns on time and within scope.
  • Operations & Visibility: Maintain governance standards, dashboards, and cross-functional coordination to surface risks and optimize delivery.
  • Collaboration & Channels: Partner with managers and internal teams to align on campaign planning, execution, and vendor coordination.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manage and coordinate marketing communications projects from initiation through completion, ensuring projects remain on time, within scope and aligned to Marketing Communications objectives.
  • Develop and maintain project timelines, schedules, workflows and status updates across multiple integrated marketing communications initiatives.
  • Serve as a traffic management lead for the Marketing Communications team by coordinating deliverables, routing projects and helping maintain project visibility across stakeholders.
  • Partner closely with Marketing Communications Managers and internal teams to support campaign planning, project execution and operational alignment.
  • Monitor project progress and proactively identify risks, delays, bottlenecks or scope changes that may impact delivery timelines.
  • Support workflow optimization and process improvement initiatives that enhance team efficiency, communication and project execution.
  • Assist in maintaining project governance standards, documentation, reporting processes and operational best practices across the team.
  • Track project milestones, timelines, approvals and budget-related details to support effective project delivery and accountability.
  • Coordinate with agency partners and external vendors as needed to support project execution and deliverable management.
  • Utilize project management and workflow management platforms, including Optimizely and other collaboration tools, to manage projects and maintain visibility across workstreams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in Marketing, Advertising, Journalism, Communications or a related field preferred.
  • Minimum 3-5 years of project management experience, preferably within an advertising agency, integrated marketing, communications or related business environment.
  • Experience supporting integrated marketing campaigns, managing timelines and coordinating cross-functional project workflows preferred.
  • Familiarity with project management, workflow management and collaboration tools such as Optimizely, Workfront, Monday.com, Asana, Jira or similar platforms is beneficial.

Preferred

  • Familiarity with project management, workflow management and collaboration tools such as Optimizely, Workfront, Monday.com, Asana, Jira or similar platforms is beneficial.

Benefits

  • Numerous development opportunities offered to build your skills
  • Be part of a company with a higher purpose and contribute to making the world a better place
  • Health benefits for you and your family on your first day of employment
  • Four weeks of paid time off and two weeks of well-being pay per year, plus paid holidays
  • Excellent parental leave which includes a minimum of 16 weeks for mother and father
  • Future planning with our competitive retirement savings plan and tuition reimbursement program
  • Learn more about our total rewards package here - Corteva Benefits
  • Check out life at Corteva! www.linkedin.com/company/corteva/life
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Corteva Agriscience

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Corteva Agriscience combines industry-leading innovations, high-touch customer engagement and operational execution to profitably deliver solutions for the world's most pressing agriculture challenges. Corteva generates advantaged market preference through its unique distribution strategy, together with its balanced and globally diverse mix of seed, crop protection, biologicals, and digital products and services. With some of the most recognized brands in agriculture and a technology pipeline well positioned to drive growth, the company is committed to maximizing productivity for farmers, while working with stakeholders throughout the food system as it fulfills its promise to enrich the lives of those who produce and those who consume, ensuring progress for generations to come.

Founded in 2019
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
23K employees (1,373 in marketing)
82% recommend to a friend
80% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
290.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$19K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
48.1%
Direct
34.7%
Referral
9.5%
Social
6.3%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~23K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,373 (6% of company)
Median Career Experience
16.5 years
Median Tenure
7.2 years

Funding

Total Funding
$1.7B
Last Raise
$500M
Post IPO Debt, 10 months ago

Funding History

  • May 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $500M
  • May 2023
    Post IPO Debt • $1.2B

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