Marketing Communications Specialist

Urbandale, IA (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own end to end project governance across client implementations, coordinating resources, vendors, and cross functional teams to hit timelines, quality, and scope.

  • Risk, scope and schedule management across the project lifecycle.
  • Cross functional alignment on roles, responsibilities and stakeholder communication.
  • Vendor coordination for print and translation and client implementations.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain detailed risk and project plans covering resources, scope, schedule, cost, assumptions, and dependencies throughout the project lifecycle
  • Maintain clear communication across team members and stakeholders, ensuring alignment on roles and responsibilities
  • Negotiate resource requirements with the Midmarket Communications Leader when priority conflicts arise
  • Lead recurring workstream and project meetings, documenting and following up on actions and risks
  • Coordinate work assignments for designers, writers, contractors, and fellow project managers in adherence with departmental standards
  • Partner with outside vendors to ensure timely execution of print and/or translation services
  • Review project proposals, validate requirements, and recommend changes as appropriate
  • Support client implementations by ensuring key activities are completed and all parties are aligned
  • Establish best practices, standards, tools, and templates for project management, execution, and reporting
  • Responsible for process execution and ensuring adherence to standard procedures and controls

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Communications or related field
  • 3+ years’ experience in marketing and project management
  • Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
  • Keen eye for design and creativity, and an understanding of design principles
  • Proficiency in Adobe Acrobat, PowerPoint and Word; working knowledge of MS Office suite

Preferred

  • Experience in employee benefits business and solutions highly desirable
  • Experience providing project/program management expertise and guidance to the business consultants, principles, and partners to facilitate their client’s benefits open enrollment communication strategy
  • Experience integrating AI into established workflows
  • Ability to deliver guidance on development and implementation of standards, methods, tools, templates for project management, execution, and reporting
  • Experience leading scope intake meetings with consultants to define deliverables

Benefits

  • We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
  • We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have an impact on colleagues, clients, and communities.
  • Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.
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Mercer

At Mercer, A Marsh business, we’re helping our clients realize their investment objectives, shape the future of work, and enhance health and retirement outcomes for their people. As a business of Marsh, for 80 years, we’ve been helping our clients, colleagues and communities build the confidence to thrive, creating healthier and more sustainable futures. Together with Marsh Risk, Guy Carpenter, and Oliver Wyman, we help organizations build resilience and competitive advantages from every angle. With annual revenue over $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues in 130 countries, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective.

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