Marketing Communication Specialist

at  Farm Credit Services of America

HYBRID-INCUMBENT MUST WORK A PERCENTAGE OF EACH WEEK IN OFFICE, IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL BE LOCATED IN OMAHA, NE OR FARGO, ND.

Farm Credit Services of America (FCSAmerica) is a great place to work. You see it in our people and the relationships they have with each other and our customers. Our passion and commitment to serving both rural America and each other is key to our success in the marketplace.
FCSAmerica is seeking a Marketing Communication Specialist who will be responsible for coordinating the development of marketing tactics related to the implementation of marketing strategy. Working with Marketing Strategy Managers to collaborate in the creation of integrated marketing communications incorporating advertising, direct marketing, content marketing, sales collateral, events, publications and online promotion. You will work closely with marketing teammates, regional sales leaders and teammates, customers, and outside agencies and vendors to fulfill these duties.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

4 Year / Bachelors Degree Preferred in Communications or Marketing

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

• 6 or more years of experience in Corporate and business-to-business product marketing
• Proficient in project management tools. Plus, if has experience with ASANA.

ABOUT US

Farm Credit Services of America (FCSAmerica), AgCountry Farm Credit Services (AgCountry), and Frontier Farm Credit are financial cooperatives operating under joint management. While each Association is owned by its local farmers and ranchers, the cooperatives pool their resources, experience, and talent to deliver affordable credit, crop insurance services, and financial services.
FCSAmerica serves rural communities and agriculture in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. AgCountry serves portions of North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and Frontier Farm Credit serves eastern Kansas. Together, we support nearly 82,000 producers and agribusinesses, meeting the needs of today’s agricultural industry with our combined 2600+ employees providing lending, risk management, technology, commodity marketing, and customer and employee education.
We have employment opportunities across our combined eight states. FCSAmerica is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, and has 42 local offices; AgCountry is headquartered in Fargo, ND and has 45 local offices; and Frontier Farm Credit is headquartered in Manhattan, KS and has six local offices.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, marital status, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law

• Work alongside the Strategic Marketing Manager, internal teams and vendors to determine business needs and identify the appropriate application and mix of print, online and radio advertising, sales collateral and brochures, direct marketing programs, website promotion, trade show planning and presence, and sales promotion items.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders and the wider project management team to drive projects to completion, ensuring constant communication and alignment between teams.
• Provide necessary leadership, planning and communication on projects, while seeking the best possible strategic and creative outcome.
• Lead internal and external project teams to produce project deliverables against documented timelines.
• Serve as the gateway between project teams and internal stakeholders translating requirements into actionable tasks, assigning and routing tasks to individuals, and managing deliverables against a project schedule
• Keep projects on track through clear task lists, issue tracking, status reports, and meeting notes
• Work to resource, identify, allocate, and manage resources across projects.
• Determine and mitigate risk factors throughout the project timeline. Escalating as required and providing appropriate options to self-solve situations.
• Track multiple projects to keep on brief, on time and to the agreed budget, using project management methodologies appropriate to successful completion.
• Clearly communicate project issues and resolution to teammates.
• Take ownership of project processes, ensuring smooth operations and clear ways of working are defined with the team and regularly assessed.
• Organize and report on complex information, providing clarity on dependencies to teams, as well as facilitating decision making across a broad range of senior stakeholders
• Track the performance of marketing campaigns and present to stakeholders.