Grey Matter Marketing (GMM) is looking for a San Francisco Bay Area-based Brand Strategist to develop cohesive, compelling strategic visions for our life sciences clients that guide their overall brand and business plans. They will play a substantive role on brand teams and new business opportunities, while collaborating with executive management. They will be a primary contact with internal teams during the development of strategic/communications-oriented work and gain heavy client exposure.
Responsibilities
- Leverage deep experience in uncovering foundational insights to drive strategy and competitive differentiation
- Develop compelling brand positioning, strategic imperatives, and critical success factors to reach brand objectives
- Prepare and effectively deliver presentations that are persuasive and help clients and prospects realize the strategic opportunities
- Prepare and effectively facilitate workshops as needed to support strategic insight development and client team alignment
- Help lead new business pitch strategic insights and presentation development in coordination with agency teams
- Develop in-depth market, customer and competitive analyses
- Play a key role in the planning and execution of strategic client engagements
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- 5+ years of healthcare strategic marketing experience or brand planning in an agency or life sciences company
- Gathering, organizing and summarizing information on client business strategy, industry and competitive dynamics, best practice analyses, communications audits and customer insights to identify key implications
- Strong analytic and organization skills with the ability to discern and capture important ideas
- Critical thinker with the ability to look beyond the set task to find new ways to achieve our objectives
- Communicate effectively and persuasively, both verbally and in writing
- A willingness to push your thinking, attack issues from multiple angles and stretch yourself to provide outstanding brand ideas to clients
- An appetite for learning and wrestling with challenging topics across a diverse range of clients/therapeutic areas
- Ability to work collaboratively and independently in a deadline-driven environment, set priorities and manage multiple tasks with input from multiple team members
- Highly organized with a sense of urgency and can-do attitude
- Openness to travel, seeing things in new ways, and exploring new ideas
- You must live in the greater San Francisco Bay area to be considered
Position Type
- This is a contract with the goal of conversion to a full-time position based upon performance
- This is a remote position with some travel to agency meetings and clients
- This position would be ideal for someone looking for a more flexible job structure but wants to be a significant contributor and leader
Grey Matter Marketing (GMM) is looking for a San Francisco or Santa Barbara-based entry-level Marketing Coordinator to assist with a variety of traditional and digital marketing initiatives to help support our company and client business goals. Tasks can include a mix of social media support (i.e. development and execution of campaigns, content creation, and performance analysis), copywriting (i.e. blogs, emails, advertisements), and project management for both internal and external projects.
The ideal candidate will enjoy writing and be well-versed on the latest digital and content marketing initiatives. A background in paid and organic social media is a plus. Candidate must be able to professionally juggle a multitude of projects and enjoy a dynamic work environment. A detail-oriented, can-do attitude is essential. This position includes the opportunity for growth in a specific area of interest, as well as the opportunity to strongly influence corporate strategy as an integral member of a small yet impactful marketing team. This is an excellent opportunity to join a talented team of individuals involved in all aspects of the development, implementation, and execution of the agency’s marketing strategy and programs. We can promise you that each day will be different!
This is a part-time, remote position with the ability to shape your schedule keeping in mind deadlines are imperative to meet. This position would be ideal for a college student with the bandwidth, a recent college graduate looking to gain experience, or for someone looking to supplement their current workload with extra hours with an unconventional job structure that allows for more flexibility. At this time, the position would be approximately 10 to 15 hours per week with an opportunity to expand, should this be a shared goal.
Responsibilities
- Collaborating with internal teams, clients and partners on marketing tactics and strategy
- Assistance with social media (research, creation, posting, engagement, analytics)
- Assistance with blog writing and email campaigns
- Assistance with website maintenance and updates
- Assistance with administrative, marketing and business development projects
Qualifications
- Working towards or completion of Bachelor’s degree, preferably in marketing, advertising, communications or science/medicine, at an accredited university/college
- 1- 2 years of marketing, communications, or advertising experience
- Strong writing and editing skills with the ability to speak in a brand’s voice and provide excellent customer service
- Highly knowledgeable and passionate about all social media networks and actively involved on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office; Adobe (Photoshop or Illustrator) experience a plus
- Ability to work collaboratively and independently in a deadline-driven environment, set priorities and manage multiple tasks with input from multiple team members
- Highly organized with a sense of urgency and can-do attitude
- Exceptional project management skills and attention to detail. Flexibility and organization are essential for helping with management of various marketing objectives simultaneously
- Critical thinker with the ability to look beyond the set task to find new ways to achieve our objectives
- Eye for great design
- Interest and willingness to learn about the evolving healthcare industry
- Must love numbers and analytics
- You must live in the greater San Francisco Bay area or Santa Barbara-area to be considered
Position Type
- This is a contract with the goal of conversion to a full-time position based upon performance
- This is a remote position with some travel to agency meetings and clients
- This position would be ideal for someone looking for a more flexible job structure but wants to be a significant contributor and leader