Marketing Specialist

Laurel, MD (On-site)

$50K/yr – $60K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Summary

The role owns end-to-end marketing content and campaigns to promote PastryStar's products, brand, and value, working cross-functionally with Sales, R&D, and external partners to produce materials, manage digital channels, events, and performance reporting.

  • Content creation across blogs, emails, social and sales materials
  • Campaigns, website updates, SEO, analytics, and tradeshow support

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop, edit, and publish marketing content that promotes PastryStar’s products, brand story, clean-label ingredients, and value proposition.
  • Create content for blogs, newsletters, email campaigns, product highlights, customer communications, social media, and sales-support materials.
  • Maintain and update website content, including product pages, landing pages, images, application ideas, and marketing copy.
  • Support SEO, digital advertising, email marketing, marketing automation, and lead-generation campaigns.
  • Manage PastryStar’s social media presence by creating posts, scheduling content, monitoring engagement, and identifying opportunities to grow brand awareness.
  • Work with the sales team to create flyers, brochures, presentations, product sheets, email templates, and customer follow-up materials.
  • Coordinate updates to digital and printed catalogs, including product descriptions, images, specifications, and layout review.
  • Collaborate with Sales, R&D, Customer Service, leadership, vendors, and outside partners to ensure marketing materials are accurate, professional, and on brand.
  • Assist with product photography, image organization, and visual assets for the website, catalog, social media, and promotional materials.
  • Help plan and support tradeshows, customer events, product demonstrations, and industry events, including booth materials, samples, signage, promotional items, and lead tracking.

Requirements

  • Strong writing, editing, proofreading, and communication skills, with the ability to create clear and engaging marketing content.
  • Excellent attention to detail when reviewing product information, website content, catalogs, and customer-facing materials.
  • Creative and organized, with the ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Knowledge of digital marketing, including SEO, email marketing, social media, website content, lead generation, and campaign tracking.
  • Ability to work independently while collaborating with Sales, R&D, Customer Service, leadership, vendors, and outside partners.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office; experience with social media platforms, email marketing tools, CRM systems, Google Analytics, Google Ads, Canva, or Adobe Creative Suite preferred.
  • Ability to review basic marketing data, identify trends, and recommend improvements.
  • Professional judgment, confidentiality, and strong interpersonal skills when communicating with employees, customers, vendors, and industry contacts.
  • Ability to learn PastryStar’s product lines, clean-label ingredients, customer base, and brand positioning.
  • Willingness to travel as needed for tradeshows, customer events, vendor meetings, or other company-related marketing activities.
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PastryStar

3.8 Glassdoor

Founded in 1986, PastryStar is a U.S. manufacturer of premium clean-label bakery and pastry ingredients, combining authentic culinary expertise with industrial-scale food manufacturing. We offer more than 250 high-performance products; including fruit fillings and jams, dessert mixes, pastry creams, curds, glazes, ganaches, and customized solutions for industrial food manufacturers, commercial and artisan bakeries, foodservice, hospitality, cruise lines, retailers, distributors, and private label brands.Built by chefs and engineered for production, our products deliver the consistency, quality, and efficiency professionals rely on. Manufactured in the USA in an SQF-certified facility and certified Kosher Dairy, our solutions are made with carefully selected ingredients and are free from artificial flavors, colors, and preservatives whenever possible. At PastryStar, we help our customers transform great ideas into exceptional bakery and pastry products.

Founded in 1986
Laurel, Maryland, USA
36 employees (2 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend

Salaries

Posted range

$50K/yr – $60K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (6% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$3.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
44.2%
Direct
26.3%
Referral
7.1%
Social
5.8%
Paid
7.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~36
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Marketing Specialist

PastryStar · Laurel, MD · On-site