Marketing and Advertising Professional
Greater Denver Area
Marketing and Advertising Professional
Greater Denver Area
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)
June 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 4 months)
• Manage all aspects of marketing to meet corporate strategic goals:
- create brand awareness by communicating key brand features & positioning across all medium
- serve as relationship manager for advertising agency, determine advertising messages and target publications & manage creative development and execution
- develop website strategies and enhance content architecture, functionality and navigation of web site to increase financial adviser online usage
- supervise and work with Director of Public Relations to determine publication targets, pitch ideas, strategies and desired outcomes
• Manage communications and product sales materials for external wholesaling forces for three distribution channels – Wirehouses/Independent Broker/Dealers, Registered Investment Advisers and Institutional Clients:
- develop collateral for each product targeted at each channel
- launch and promote new products and services
- develop conference marketing strategies and communication programs
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; FISV; Financial Services industry)
September 1995 — June 2007 (11 years 10 months)
• Develop the marketing strategy for all corporate products & services:
- achieve buy-in from top management
- effectively communicate strategy through all levels of the organization
• Direct a staff of nine professionals consisting of a market research manager, four marketing managers, a graphic designer, a web designer, a conference planner and a public relations specialist to execute the marketing strategy.
• Lead corporate re-branding initiative:
- develop strategy
- execute the new brand across all areas of the company
- develop press materials to announce the new brand
- re-brand existing collateral materials and forms
- work with the parent company to comply with its overall branding guidelines
• Develop annual budgets by product area, totaling over $2 million. Responsible for managing and reporting of monthly actual-to-budget approved budgets.
• Serve as Chairperson for company’s national conference which attracts over 200 attendees and more than 50 exhibitors.
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
1995 — 2007 (12 years )