Marketing Manager - Content and Thought Leadership

Glenview, IL (Hybrid)

$108K/yr – $120K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive Wespath’s institutional investment content strategy and thought leadership, turning complex markets into clear investor narratives across leadership, markets, and sustainability themes.

  • Must-have: 5+ years of investment writing/financial communications with strong narrative skills.
  • Standout: Ownership of cross-team content strategy and editorial calendars.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and lead Wespath’s institutional content strategy, including short- and long-term planning, organization-wide thought leadership direction, and content framework.
  • Edit and ghostwrite content for investment leadership, maintaining clarity, tone, accuracy, and individual leadership and organizational brand alignment.
  • Serve as a strategic partner to the Investment Management and Institutional Investment Services teams—monitoring markets, asset class themes, sustainability trends, and portfolio positioning; generating insight‑driven ideas; and translating these perspectives into high‑quality content including market commentary, fund updates, thematic blogs, quarterly narratives, investor insights, and white papers.
  • Translate complex investment, economic, sustainability, and impact concepts into clear, compelling narratives—partnering with the multimedia team and others to deliver integrated visuals, scripts, and multimedia content.
  • Raise financial and investment awareness among all stakeholders—retirement-plan participants, plan sponsors/employers, and institutional clients—through proactive research, timely commentary, and forward‑looking ideas that elevate Wespath’s brand.
  • Collaborate with the benefits communicators to ensure investment‑related benefit topics are clear, aligned, and integrated into retirement-plan participant and plan‑sponsor‑facing materials.
  • Partner with Communications team counterparts to incorporate the content strategy into the broader marketing strategy and devise measures of success for content and reporting cadence.
  • Stay current with competitor thought leadership and broader industry commentary, regularly circulating relevant commentary to inform internal stakeholders.
  • Support preparation of materials for investor meetings and events while managing editorial calendars aligned with organizational priorities.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, marketing, economics, finance, or related fields, or equivalent work experience.
  • 5+ years of experience in investment writing, financial communications, economic commentary, or institutional marketing.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate complex investment and economic concepts into accessible, compelling content.
  • Strong writing, editing, and storytelling skills with a portfolio demonstrating clarity, narrative strength, and subject‑matter acumen.
  • Strong knowledge of institutional investment concepts, capital markets, investment performance, sustainability and impact investing.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel; comfort working with data.

Preferred

  • Experience within an institutional asset management, investment consulting, or similar environment.
  • Knowledge of data visualization concepts and experience with creative/design workflows.
  • Experience developing integrated marketing and communications from concept to production, including writing for digital/print, web, and social media to ensure consistent and impactful messaging.

Benefits

  • Choose the medical, dental, vision, and well-being benefits that best fit your needs from day one.
  • 8 % employer contribution to retirement plan with an additional match up to 2% on day one.
  • 22 days of PTO + 12 paid holidays.
  • Hybrid working arrangement (two days per week in the office is expected).
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Wespath Benefits and Investments

OverviewWespath Benefits and Investments is a not-for-profit administrative agency of The United Methodist Church. Wespath is responsible for the general supervision and administration of retirement, health and welfare benefit plans and programs, and investment fund management for more than 100,000 active and retired clergy and lay employees in the U.S. and around the world. Wespath has been honored as a Chicago-area Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® for eight years in a row, as well as several national recognitions.SpecialtiesOur operations include retirement services, health care, investment management, environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, positive social purpose (PSP) lending, U.S. pension plans and global pension programs and welfare benefit plans. In service since 1908, Wespath has approximately $29 billion in assets under management. As the nation's largest faith-based pension fund, Wespath works globally with corporations to address environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, with a focus on responsible and sustainable investing. “When I talk to friends and family, it seems we have something unique here.” –current employeeThe Glenview, IL headquarters building was awarded a Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. Wespath strives to lessen its environmental impact, reinforcing the organization’s core value of stewardship. The agency has received Best Employees for Healthy Lifestyles and Eye on Health awards, and provides incentive programs that focus on the well-being of its employees. Our Values Teamwork – Integrity – Stewardship – Spirituality – Customer Satisfaction – Mutual RespectOur Mission We care for those who serve by providing investment and benefit services that honor the mission and principles of The United Methodist Church.We are currently operating as a hybrid work environment. Visit wespath.org/careers to view our open positions.

Founded in 1908
Glenview, Illinois, USA
252 employees (10 in marketing)