Marketing Specialist

The successful candidate will be comfortable managing multiple projects, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, tracking timelines and budgets, and coordinating campaigns from planning through execution. Candidates whose experience is primarily limited to social media, public relations, content creation, or digital marketing-and who lack broader campaign and project management experience-may not be the right fit.

Marketing Specialist

Industry: Healthcare
Location: Boston, MA Hybrid
Schedule: Monday Friday, 8:30 a.m. 5:00 p.m.
Hybrid Schedule: Three days onsite and two days remote per week
Contract Length: Six months to start

Position Overview

A nationally recognized pediatric healthcare organization is seeking two Marketing Specialists to support integrated marketing initiatives across clinical service lines and internal departments.

This role is ideal for an early-career marketing professional with broad campaign coordination and project management experience. The Marketing Specialist will help plan and execute multi-channel campaigns designed to increase patient volume, strengthen referral relationships, and build brand awareness.

The successful candidate will be comfortable managing multiple projects, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, tracking timelines and budgets, and coordinating campaigns from planning through execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist with the planning and execution of integrated, multi-channel marketing campaigns that support patient volume, referrals, and brand awareness.
• Partner with Digital Marketing, Communications, clinical service lines, and other internal teams to develop and launch marketing campaigns and initiatives.
• Attend stakeholder meetings to understand departmental goals, identify marketing needs, and coordinate campaign execution.
• Create and maintain project plans, timelines, tracking tools, reporting dashboards, and status updates.
• Coordinate requests for marketing materials across internal departments and cross-functional teams.
• Conduct market research, competitive analysis, and customer segmentation to support marketing strategies.
• Track campaign budgets, deliverables, timelines, and performance metrics.
• Measure campaign effectiveness and help evaluate marketing results.
• Ensure consistency in brand messaging, tone, and visual identity across marketing materials.
• Support the testing and implementation of new marketing opportunities and initiatives.
• Organize research findings and prepare reports or presentations for internal stakeholders.
• Stay current on marketing trends, tools, and best practices.
• Manage multiple priorities while maintaining strong attention to detail and follow-through.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• One to five years of relevant marketing experience.
• Meaningful and directly relevant internship experience may be considered.
• Experience coordinating marketing campaigns from planning through execution.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, stakeholders, deadlines, and priorities.
• Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder-management abilities.
• Comfortable tracking budgets, timelines, campaign activities, and performance.
• Proficiency with project tracking, reporting, and standard business productivity tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare, hospital, life sciences, or healthcare services marketing experience.
• Experience conducting market research or competitive analysis.
• Experience developing campaign reports or performance dashboards.
• Exposure to account management, service-line marketing, or internal client support.

Key Skills

• Project management
• Campaign management
• Account and stakeholder management
• Marketing coordination
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Budget and timeline tracking
• Market research
• Reporting and performance measurement
• Written and verbal communication
• Organization and attention to detail

Target Candidate Backgrounds

Candidates may currently hold titles such as:

• Marketing Coordinator
• Marketing Specialist
• Marketing Associate
• Account Coordinator
• Campaign Coordinator
• Junior Marketing Project Manager

Candidate Profile

The strongest candidates will have broad marketing coordination experience rather than experience limited to one specific channel. They should understand how multiple marketing functions work together and be able to guide projects through planning, development, approval, execution, and measurement.

Candidates whose experience is primarily limited to social media, public relations, content creation, or digital marketing-and who lack broader campaign and project management experience-may not be the right fit.

Interview Process

• First Round: Approximately 45 minutes with the hiring team.
• Final Round: Interview with an additional leader or cross-functional panel.