Job Details
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- Employee orientation
- Marketing automation
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Power BI
Job Description
You are excited to play a crucial role in driving member growth and helping to ensure a seamless transition into our member community. You are committed to delivering exceptional customer experiences and fostering lasting partnerships. You will collaborate closely with various internal stakeholders, including marketing, sales, and customer success teams. You want to be part of a dynamic and innovative marketing team and have a direct impact on the growth of our organization.
If this sounds like you, please read on!
The Marketing Specialist, Member Acquisition and Onboarding will be expected to help execute a wide variety of marketing initiatives, including direct response acquisition and new member onboarding communications in all key segments. This entails coordination of key membership acquisition and onboarding campaigns, execution of internal marketing platforms for email and social, as well as supporting development and updating of key membership personas, managing digital/social strategies for both paid and organic media, internal communications, and more.
This position will help execute a consistent brand voice and will support strategic initiatives to acquire and welcome new members into the Academy, including building lead generation initiatives, list purchases, nurture streams, etc. The ideal candidate is a motivated marketing professional with attention to detail. It is critical that the individual in this role can effectively manage high visibility projects, has a solid grasp on general marketing principles and tools, maintains the pulse of membership counts and budgets, and is a superb written and oral communicator. Critical analysis skills, experience with Microsoft excel, and other reporting software such as Power BI are a requirement. This person must have the ability to work with senior stakeholders, including the AAOS Membership Council that oversees the Membership department, collaborate with multiple departments within the organization, manage many projects simultaneously, and be able to organize and simplify information. This position will report to the Manager, Acquisition and Onboarding (Member Experience), and is part of the Marketing, Communications, and Membership Department.
Deploys marketing campaigns and owns their implementation from ideation to execution.
Experiments with a variety of organic and paid acquisition channels like content creation, content curation, pay per click campaigns, social media, lead generation campaigns.
Ensures continued A/B testing incurs on all marketing channels to boost conversion rates and improve open, click, click to open, and direct response rates where applicable.
Supports Manager, Acquisition and Onboarding, in work towards Academy solutions for tracking of conversion rates in all marketing and CMS platforms.
Executes the development and production of marketing material, from digital and print advertisements to hard copy brochures and telemarketing scripts.
Collaborates with Membership Operations team to create, target and execute appropriate campaigns for acquiring and onboarding members.
Creates and ensures consistent, effective messaging, and adapts messaging to reach multiple target audiences, presenting content in appealing, intuitive ways across various segments and demographics.
Builds and maintains monthly ROI reports to measure key metrics, success points, and areas of opportunity for both acquisition and onboarding campaigns.
Supports the entire membership application process, from start to finish, including aaos.org website pages, application system (MAAP), submission process, review, approval, and notification to members throughout the year.
Partners with Membership Marketing Engagement and Retention team to ensure seamless hand-off of members as they travel from acquisition to onboarding and engagement and renewal.
Measures and reports on the performance of marketing campaigns and assess against goals, including but not limited to deployment of member surveys and focus groups, google analytics, and campaign monitoring using PowerBI.
Analyzes consumer behavior and evaluates analytics to draw key conclusions and drive strategic recommendations for marketing campaign improvements, evaluation of member retention based on qualitative and quantitative measurable attributes.
Supports Manager, Membership in building reports, identifying key metrics and deliverables to both the Membership Council and the Board of Directors, where applicable.
Assists in annual updating of Membership Policy and Procedure document to ensure that all changes to operational requirements are captured and that Customer Service teams are trained and abreast of any modifications.
Builds strategic relationships and partners with agencies and vendors, where applicable.
Monitors the marketing budget on an on-going basis and allocates funds wisely.
Supports the strategy and execution of all acquisition and onboarding operations and communications for key audience personas.
Assists in the development of marketing materials, including email, postcards, telemarketing scripts, social media, web edits/updates, and promotional videos.
Leads strategy to identify and establish acquisition lists and lead generation funnels to acquire new members.
Supports the new member experience from key transition points, including transitions of key member groups (resident to fellowship, resident to candidate, fellowship to candidate, candidate to fellow, fellow to emeritus, etc.).
Supports and executes win back strategies for members who have dropped their membership (recent and long-term), including residents who do not respond to transition communications.
Assists with the preparation of ROI analysis, process improvements, and analytics for all marketing initiatives related to member acquisition and onboarding.
Collaborates with Customer Service and Membership Operations team in follow up for all tracking of applications, both board-approved, and non-board approved, including application fee collection, as well as support oversight for all resident dashboards and transition categories to ensure optimal experience and immediate onboarding of new and transitioning members.
Supports launch of new membership categories, once available, including but not limited to Medical Students, Affiliated Orthopaedic Surgeons, and Allied Health Orthopaedic Team Members.
Exemplifies the following essential values of the Academy:
Teamwork: Effective collaboration and team-focus to solve complex problems and drive innovation.
Empowerment: The authority, information, and skills to make decisions and drive results.
Accountability: Ownership of process and results that drive decisions and ensure implementation.
Mindset of Growth/Continuous Learning: Focused on and invested in self and staff development to become more adaptable, making the Academy more agile, innovative, and sustainable.
Travel:
Up to 10 days per year
Qualifications:
Required:
Bachelor’s Degree
Past work experience in direct response marketing with knowledge of digital marketing and content marketing
Experience with paid media, including Google and social media platforms, Google Analytics, and experience with SEO
Experience with marketing automation tools such as Marketo, Eloqua, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Hubspot
Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Illustrator, and/or Adobe Creative Suite
Desired:
3-5 years’ experience in Marketing, Communications/PR or Advertising, or Association
Basic skill with HTML and/or web development software
Bilingual in Spanish a plus but not required.
If this describes YOU, please apply by sharing the following:
- Clearly communicate why you are the ideal candidate for this role, providing specific examples and experiences as proof points.
- Resumes must be accompanied by a cover letter with salary expectations to be considered.
This hybrid position is based in Rosemont, Illinois and is open to applicants who are able to commute weekly to this office.
Applicants must already be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of work visas.