Job Title: Marketing Associate
Location: Romeoville, IL – 100% Onsite
Salary: $75,000–$85,000 annually
Employment Type: Direct Hire
Role Overview:
Brilliant Financial Staffing has been engaged in a search for a Marketing Associate to join a growing B2B beauty, skin-health technology, and contract manufacturing company located in Romeoville, IL. This is an exciting opportunity for a hands-on marketing professional with experience in the beauty, health, or wellness industry who is eager to take on additional responsibility and grow toward a future Marketing Manager role. The Marketing Associate will serve as the execution engine of the Strategy, Marketing & Communications department, supporting day-to-day marketing activities across content and web, digital assets, CRM and email, social media, events, reporting, and marketing operations. This role is ideal for someone who is proactive, highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable wearing multiple hats in a fast-paced, small-team environment.
Responsibilities:
- Draft and edit short-form and long-form marketing copy for email, social media, websites, and other marketing channels
- Manage the editorial and blog calendar and maintain website content through the CMS
- Create designs for ads, websites, social media, and other marketing channels using Canva and other tools
- Manage hands-on website updates, with WordPress experience highly preferred
- Own routine SEO content updates and monthly SEO/content-gap reviews
- Research industry trends and create content based upon market analysis
- QA all published content for brand and specification compliance
- Maintain the digital asset library, naming conventions, and physical marketing inventory
- Maintain CRM contact records, resolve duplicates, and support lead entry following events
- Maintain CRM list segmentation and data cleanliness
- Draft, edit, and manage email campaigns while monitoring and reporting on engagement
- Draft and edit social media copy and manage the day-to-day social content calendar
- Schedule social media posts and monitor/respond to social engagement
- Coordinate event and trade-show logistics, vendor confirmations, and on-site checklists
- Plan photo/video shoots and manage production planning for upcoming events
- Pull weekly performance data and prepare monthly cross-channel performance summaries
- Maintain the marketing budget and spend tracker and process invoices, POs, and reconciliations
- Triage the marketing request inbox and daily task list while identifying and escalating bottlenecks
- Maintain the master marketing calendar and keep SOPs current
- Support cross-functional meetings, brand partners, promotional activities, digital campaigns, and other marketing initiatives as needed
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, or a related field preferred; equivalent experience considered
- 2–4 years of marketing experience in a coordinator, associate, or specialist capacity
- 2+ years of experience within the beauty, health, or wellness industries
- Hands-on, generalist marketing experience across multiple channels
- Strong writing and editing skills, including both short-form and long-form content
- Hands-on website management experience, ideally with WordPress
- Working knowledge of CRM/marketing automation platforms such as HubSpot or Salesforce
- Experience with Canva; Adobe InDesign or Illustrator is a plus
- Ability to research market data using tools such as Mintel, Euromonitor, or Nielsen
- Proficiency with marketing and project-management tools such as Asana or similar platforms
- Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Highly detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy and quality
Brilliant Staffing, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or veteran status.