Marketing Technology & CRM Strategy Manager

Columbus, OH (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableManager5+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Owns and evolves the CRM and MarTech stack to enable business development and client engagement, driving data strategy, analytics, and adoption across the firm.

  • Owns strategy, administration, and optimization of the CRM platform.
  • Drives data-driven insights, dashboards, and client intelligence for leadership and attorneys.
  • Leads adoption, training, and governance to ensure data quality and ROI.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Owns the CRM platform (Intapp Deal Cloud) end to end – strategy, administration, configuration, enhancements, data architecture, and ongoing optimization - ensuring it effectively supports business development and client engagement. Leads the marketing data strategy and collaborates with IT to ensure technology investments align with business development priorities.
  • Collects, analyzes, and interprets client, matter, and market data to identify trends, cross-selling opportunities, and growth prospects.
  • Designs, maintains, and distributes dashboards, reports, and analytics that provide attorneys and firm leadership with actionable insights.
  • Manages the vendor relationships as primary liaison for CRM, data enrichment, and marketing technology platforms, including evaluating new solutions, overseeing contacts, and ensuring alignment with firm needs.
  • Collaborates with attorneys and client teams to leverage data and relationship intelligence to strengthen client engagement.
  • Partners with marketing directors and finance to ensure seamless uses of Intapp Deal Cloud and marketing technologies across the firm.
  • Support RFPs, pitches, and client presentations with data-driven insights, relationship mapping, and client intelligence.
  • Develops and leads formal CRM and MarTech adoption programs, including training, documentation, change management, and usage metrics tracking, to drive meaningful adoption, ensure high-quality data, and translate insights into stronger client engagement and business development impact.
  • Stays current on CRM and marketing technology best practices, recommending enhancements that increase efficiency and impact.
  • Defines success metrics, adoption KPIs, and reporting frameworks to measure the impact of ROI and CRM and marketing technology investments.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, communications, information technology or related field required.
  • 5–7 years of experience in marketing, business development, or CRM/database management within professional services; law firm or AmLaw experience strongly preferred.
  • Strong knowledge of CRM systems (Intapp Deal Cloud preferred) and demonstrated ability to manage system administration, data governance, and reporting.
  • Proven experience in leveraging data to support business development, client relationship management, and strategic decision-making.
  • Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail and accuracy.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate effectively with attorneys, staff, and leadership.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and experience with reporting tools or business intelligence platforms a plus.
  • Experience with Entegrata a plus.

Preferred

  • Data-driven mindset with the ability to translate complex information into clear insights.
  • Client-service orientation with a proactive approach to supporting attorney and practice needs.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
  • Strong project management skills and ability to drive initiatives from start to finish.
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Benesch is an Am Law 200 business law firm and limited liability partnership with offices in Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, New York, San Francisco and Wilmington. The firm is known for providing highly sophisticated legal services to national and international clients that include public and private, middle market and emerging companies, as well as private equity funds, entrepreneurs and not-for-profit organizations.Benesch is regularly recognized by Chambers as one of the leading US law firms, with 40 attorneys and 15 practices ranked in Chambers USA 2024 and one attorney recognized globally by Chambers in Privacy & Data Security. The 2025 edition of Best Lawyers in America® named 72 Benesch attorneys to its annual list, and 60 attorneys were named Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America. Seven Benesch lawyers were recognized as Best Lawyers® 2025 "Lawyers of the Year," a distinction given annually to a single outstanding lawyer in each practice and designated metropolitan area. Benesch was named Transportation Law Firm of the Year for the 7th time by Best Lawyers®, and the firm received national first-tier rankings in Health Care and Transportation Law in 2025.Our practice areas include Healthcare, Commercial Finance & Banking, Construction, Corporate & Securities, Data Protection, Environmental Law & Litigation, Executive Compensation & Benefits, Global Transactions, Government Relations, Immigration, Insolvency & Bankruptcy, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Litigation, Private Equity, Public Finance, Real Estate, Tax and Trade Secrets, Restrictive Covenants & Unfair Competition. Some of our represented industries include Additive Manufacturing-3D Printing, Cannabis, Dental Support Organizations (DSOs), Energy, FINTECH and Payments, Family Offices & Direct Investing, Food & Beverage, Insurance, Manufacturing, Metaverse/Web 3.0, Blockchain & Smart Contracts, Not-for-Profit, Pharmaceutical, Polymers, Retail & E-Commerce and Transportation & Logistics.

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