North American Marketing Specialist

Norwood, MA (On-site)

$75K/yr – $85K/yrMid Level1+ years expFull time

Posted 11 days ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end North American event programs from planning and logistics to post-event follow-up, while driving attendance, content, and brand consistency across digital channels.

  • Lead end-to-end event delivery and post-event lead management.
  • Drive promotion, attendance, and content strategy for regional programs.
  • Collaborate on social, website, and CRM workflows.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Complete Event Ownership: Lead the end-to-end planning, promotion, logistics, execution, and follow-up for all North American trade shows, customer events, conferences, open houses, and regional programs.
  • Event Logistics & Execution: Manage all logistics, including booth scheduling, shipping, venue/vendor coordination, onsite setup, staffing, and teardown.
  • Event Promotion & Attendance: Drive attendance through targeted email campaigns, registration pages, website promotion, social media outreach, and direct alignment with sales teams.
  • Post-Event Strategy & Reporting: Coordinate all post-event activities, including lead capture, CRM routing, post-event reporting, thank-you communications, and attendee surveys.
  • North American & Corporate Channels: Manage and execute social media strategy for North American business programs and corporate LinkedIn channels.
  • Content Strategy: Plan, write, and schedule engaging content to promote events, product launches, customer stories, and regional initiatives.
  • Asset Creation: Design high-quality visual assets using the full Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) for email invitations, social graphics, event signage, and promotional collateral.
  • Brand Consistency: Ensure all digital and print materials adhere to corporate brand standards across all campaigns.
  • Website Management: Build, update, and maintain campaign landing pages, event registration pages, and regional content within the company website CMS.
  • Lead Tracking & Marketing Automation: Build email campaigns, forms, and automated workflows within HubSpot

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Design, Business, or a related field required.
  • 1–3 years of experience in event coordination, marketing communications, digital marketing, or creative support roles preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience managing trade shows, conferences, or corporate events end-to-end.
  • Hands-on proficiency with the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) for marketing asset design.
  • Experience managing corporate social media accounts, particularly LinkedIn.
  • Experience using marketing automation and CRM platforms (HubSpot and Salesforce preferred).
  • Ability to build and update web pages within WordPress or similar CMS platforms.
  • Strong project management, organization, and written communication skills.
  • Willingness to travel up to approximately 25–30% to support events and regional programs.
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States and able to work regularly from the Norwood, Massachusetts office.
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Instron manufactures and services a wide range of cutting-edge materials testing equipment used by research scientists, design engineers, and quality control managers. Our systems are used in industry, academia, and government to evaluate the mechanical properties and performance of raw materials, components, and products. Due to the scope of our international operations and wide range of products, Instron is considered to be the world’s leading full-service materials testing company.

Founded in 1946
Norwood, Massachusetts, USA
1K employees (20 in marketing)
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1% CEO approval

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$75K/yr – $85K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
20 (2% of company)
Median Tenure
25.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
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Monthly Visitors
158.4K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$6.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
62.2%
Direct
26.2%
Referral
5.7%
Social
0.6%
Paid
1.2%

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North American Marketing Specialist

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