Overview:
BRMi is seeking a Brand & Product Marketing Strategist I to serve as a marketing executional product owner, supporting lead product owners with directing the delivery of holistic marketing campaigns from market strategy development to implementation to engage the member/prospect, achieve business goals, and increase share among members. Translate the business and product strategy into actionable and effective features/campaigns and user stories/campaign briefs to leverage member insights, cross-channel strategy, and intelligent targeting. Support cross-functional relationships and expertise in our customer's brand and product portfolio. Assist portfolio subject matter expert (Chief Product Owner) and other marketing product owners within various value streams to anticipate, prioritize and plan campaign strategy across paid, owned, and earned channels. Apply internal and external marketing insights, data-driven strategy, and enterprise goals to guide and evolve both campaigns and initiatives to drive results.
Works on assignments requiring considerable judgment and initiative. Minimum supervision.
**Hybrid in Vienna, VA**
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Responsibilities:
- Serve as marketing campaign executional product owner within scrum teams, supporting lead product owner in translating vision and directing execution of holistic marketing strategy to ensure engaging messaging and creative assets for integrated campaigns, prospecting campaigns, engagement campaigns, and product launches
- Support the business, Chief Product Owner, lead Product Owner, and marketing leaders to identify opportunities to drive product adoption, engagement, retention, and cross-sell/up-sell/referral behavior in all paid, owned, and earned channels based on performance; continually prioritize initiatives
- Support cross-functional leads in strategizing on the implementation of a wide range of data-driven marketing initiatives including member insights, audience selection, trigger qualification, suppressions, and segmentation
- Assist lead Product Owners with the ownership and development of campaign briefs/user stories and contribute to data requirement briefs to execute a range of marketing campaigns through owned channels (such as email, push, and in-app messaging) and paid media (such as national and local broadcast, radio, display ads, online video, and search); collaborate with other marketing channel partners to drive desired business outcomes
- Contribute to the planning of the product marketing roadmap(s) by supporting the strategy around campaign execution and testing
- May act as product owner within marketing scrum teams; assist scrum masters and lead product owners with identifying and prioritizing the backlogs, refinement, and sprint planning to ensure alignment with product roadmaps and business unit stakeholder goals
- Shape acceptance criteria and marketing output standards with full scrum team to determine when marketing product or service meets the definition of done/ready with appropriate stakeholders within organization
- Support business-critical processes such as compliance review, marketing metrics, project management systems, agile processes, and stakeholder approvals
- Assist the lead product owners with evaluating and reporting on campaign performance, test results/learnings, and data insights to the product marketing group, business units, cross-functional partners, and all levels of leadership
- Assist in delivering compelling and effective communications/presentations to departmental and executive management, as well as socialization into all marketing activities
- Support the collaboration with the Chief Product Owner and lead Product Owner to manage advertising agency relationship, briefings and development and evaluation of media plans and paid media creative to ensure integrated strategies and campaigns are executed, optimized and delivering against business goals
- Collaborate and communicate with key corporate stakeholders, including Business Units as appropriate, with education on marketing concepts, process and tools, media constraints, and opportunities
- Contribute as needed to ad hoc initiatives which require expertise on campaigns and lifecycle management
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- Experience in supporting large brand, product, and/or marketing campaigns with business risk and impact; to include strategy, execution, innovation, problem solving and decision-making
- Experience in client relationship building, project leadership, and campaign execution; including initiatives with marketing, advertising, product strategy, cross-functional teams and external partner team members
- Experience in supporting and developing go-to-market plans that drive results toward business priorities and goals
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize with minimal direction; possesses appropriate tactfulness and assertiveness to problem-solve and propose changes in team processes
- Basic understanding of how to synthesize results of analyses, and develop and make recommendations using quantity and quality data in order to solve unique and complex problems
- Working knowledge of financial and marketing industry trends, products, and services
- Experience with PCs and related software packages as well as learning different collaboration and product management tools
- Desired - Product Owner Certification or equivalent training/experience
- Effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Effective organizational, planning, and time management skills
- Bachelor's Degree in a related field such as Marketing, Strategy, Business, Finance, or the equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
** BRMi will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.**
**This is a W2 opportunity only**
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