Marketing Communications Assistant

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$50K/yr – $60K/yrEntry LevelFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and coordinate cross-team marketing content creation, distribution, and analytics, driving brand-aligned materials, thought leadership promotion, and reputation research.

  • Own end-to-end marketing materials lifecycle across client alerts, decks, placemats, ads, and digital assets.
  • Lead collaboration with Brand and use data-driven insights from research and analytics to inform campaigns.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Assists with creating, formatting, and distributing marketing materials, including client alerts, pitch decks, experience placemats, advertisements, and other communications, in compliance with firm policies and brand standards.
  • Supports the promotion of Firm thought leadership via republication opportunities, including identifying author-friendly publication outlets, vetting author agreements, and promoting published content via various electronic channels.
  • Supports the Firm’s website and video/social media channels by preparing, vetting, and posting narrative and related graphics.
  • Assists in the creation, production, and promotion of podcasts and videos.
  • Formats and proofreads presentations, pitch materials, advertisements, and other marketing-related content for accuracy and compliance with firm brand and style guidelines.
  • Conducts market analysis and competitive intelligence research to keep abreast of competitors and industry trends.
  • Updates and maintains marketing databases and repositories.
  • Provides additional administrative support to the Marketing team and collaborates with other departments on special projects and firm initiatives.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • A successful candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, or a related field.
  • Strong graphic design and layout fundamentals, with experience using InDesign and Adobe applications
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint
  • Proficiency with AI-driven tools and marketing automation and analytics tools
  • Exceptional organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize and multitask in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
  • Strong research, writing, and verbal communication skills, with a proactive, professional approach
  • Client-service oriented, with the ability to cultivate relationships across the Firm and understand the Firm’s culture
  • Demonstrated problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to execute in a detail-oriented work environment
  • Excellent multitasking, analytical, communication, and organizational skills, including the ability to take ideas from inception through delivery, draw conclusions from data, and perform fact-checking
  • Flexibility to work beyond normal business hours when required to meet deadlines

Benefits

  • The benefits overview for this position is available for review at the below link.
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Chapman and Cutler LLP

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Chapman is a law firm focused on finance. We work with the most sophisticated financial companies and institutional investors in the world, providing both practical and strategic legal advice for virtually any financing issue that may arise. Through presentations, publications, and industry advocacy, we share our market insight to help our clients advance their business and product development goals. We stay on the leading edge of legal services innovation, creating new technology and practice management solutions for our firm and our clients to drive efficiency, agility, and service.The lawyers and support professionals who work at Chapman are highly skilled, and we care deeply about our clients, colleagues, and coworkers. Our culture is defined by individual purpose, teamwork and collaboration, and the freedom to pursue new ideas. Because of this culture and focus on individual fulfillment in work, we are proud to say that nearly half of our partners have spent their entire careers at Chapman and over half of our professional staff have worked at the firm for 15 or more years. When our people can see the difference their work makes every day, they stay. That’s the Chapman experience.From our innovative work with clients to our talented people to our market insight and perspective, learn more about what makes Chapman unique at chapman.com.

Founded in 1913
Chicago, Illinois, USA
587 employees
1% recommend to a friend
1% CEO approval

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Posted range

$50K/yr – $60K/yr

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Marketing Communications Assistant

Chapman and Cutler LLP · Chicago, IL · Hybrid