Marketing Intern at Daniels Sharpsmart Inc in Chicago, Illinois

Job Description:

Who are we looking for



Someone with a passion for marketing, digital media, and creative pursuits... we're looking for a marketing enthusiast! OWho are we looking for... Someone with a passion for marketing, digital media, and creative pursuits... we're looking for a marketing enthusiast! Our ideal candidate is eager to learn, capable of supporting multiple projects/touch-points at once, and can clearly communicate with internal and external stakeholders. As a brand-focused team, we are looking for someone with a bit of design flair that can uphold our marketing excellence across our internal and external interactions. As long as you have logical project management skills, strong scoping ability, and "figure-it-out" confidence... we can teach the technical skills.



Role Overview



Your role will be focused on supporting marketing efforts across the business, assisting internal stakeholders with project facilitation, and working with/managing external contractors against project milestones. The key deliverables in this role include supporting the management of digitally optimized content across all marketing platforms, assisting the team with project management, overseeing the marketing inbox, and facilitating project scoping with the marketing team. As a global business, we develop content and web-based media for the UK, Canada, and the US, along with working across nine other brands, so part of your role will be supporting our design and content specialists to curate adaptation of our digital marketing materials for other regions.



DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT

• Assist with the blog publishing workflow management


• Support the Google My Business quarterly content calendar


• Collaborate with the Content and Design team on strategizing unique social media campaign/content ideas to support recruitment and sales efforts


• Help our content specialist with list management and quarterly contact updates


• With the rest of the Marketing Communications team, act as a brand guardian in terms of the look and feel of online communications as well as tone of voice for written copy.

• Supporting with the marketing inbox, assessing requests and ensuring timely responses


• Support the team with project scoping, assessing resource needs, interfacing with internal stakeholders to clarify requirements and scoping timelines


• Assist in the execution of marketing projects by tracking progress and monitoring project management dashboards


• Help manage and facilitate marketing meeting schedules and administration


• Assist the sales team in ordering promotional materials, booth supplies, and other essentials for trade show participation


• Assist in tracking, organizing, and reporting on monthly marketing invoices to ensure accurate budgeting and record-keeping

• Previous Internship or experience working within a marketing team


• Passion for marketing, advertising, or relevant local post-college experience


• Strong interpersonal skills


• High attention to detail


• Strong competency in time-management and accountability to deadlines


• Basic design proficiency in executing marketing projects against brand guidelines


• HTML/CSS, Adobe Creative Suite experience is an advantage


• Skilled in working effectively with cross-functional teams


• Experience working in project management platforms, such as Wrike