Marketing Communications Specialist

Location: Mt. Sterling, IL or Chesterfield, MO           

Department: Brand Marketing

Reports To: Brand Manager

Salary Range: $59,702 - $89,554 annually, plus bonus opportunity

As a Marketing Communications Specialist, you will serve as a lead project manager for projects requiring Branding & Creative Services support.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Use project management and leadership skills, including prioritization, budgeting, delegation, and time management to successfully complete projects with competing deadlines.
• Build internal client relationships with the highest level of customer service by ensuring all clients’ needs are met and expectations exceeded.
• Review and approve creative assets to ensure brand alignment, quality, and projects objectives are met.
• Create strategic marketing communication plans, including campaign objectives, messaging, timelines, and success measures.
• Facilitate meetings and clearly communicate with cross-functional stakeholders to align on strategy, capture feedback, and drive projects forward.
• Evaluate campaign performance and recommend optimizations based on business outcomes and marketing insights.

YOU MUST HAVE

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent Dot experience
• Minimum 5 years of business experience in marketing or communications
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills
• Strong meeting facilitation skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously across competing stakeholder priorities
• Experience interpreting campaign analytics and reporting on performance metrics

YOU MAY ALSO HAVE

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, or related field
• Previous leadership or management
• Design tool familiarity
• Experience connecting marketing activity to business outcomes
• Comfort with basic data visualization
  
  

ROLE SPECIFICS

• Travel: Occasional overnight travel required. Must have ability to independently travel as needed, without restriction, by all modes of transportation.

WHO WE ARE 

Dot Foods makes products more accessible and affordable to the food industry. We streamline the supply chain and build valuable partnerships with distributors, suppliers, and operators. Our company was created on a foundation of respect and dependability. People who are open to input, ask questions, embrace diversity, and seek innovative solutions thrive here. 

WHAT DOT CAN OFFER YOU

As a family-owned and -operated company since 1960, Dot Foods has created a strong family culture. We make everyone feel included and respected. In addition to an inclusive working environment, we will provide you with:

• Competitive compensation package, including bonuses for successful performance
• Extensive benefits including medical, dental, 401k, and profit-sharing
• Significant advancement opportunities

Safety: This position assumes responsibility for the workplace safety of self and co-workers, and for the safety conditions of the work locations, exercise and promotes safe behaviors and show unyielding support of programs, rules and policies regarding safety.

EOE/AA Employer: Dot believes all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunities. Dot will not discriminate against its employees or applicants for employment because of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status or other basic classes protected by applicable federal or state law provided they are qualified for employment or for existing positions.