Marketing Director

Our client, a well-established and growing professional services firm in Hampton Roads, is looking for a Marketing Director to serve as the operational right hand to their CMO. You are stepping into a four-person team that runs multiple events per year, manages a database of 80,000 contacts, and works against a marketing budget projected to reach $3 million in 2027.
The CMO owns vision, brand, and major spend decisions. What she needs is someone who owns how that vision gets executed: the approvals, the timelines, the checklists, and the processes that keep a busy department moving without everything routing through one person. You will make real decisions aligned with the CMO's strategic vision.
What You Will Do Serve as final approver on press releases, graphics, and routine creative so campaigns move without bottlenecks
Own event execution end to end: build the checklist, assign the tasks, hold the team to the timeline, and run the debrief
Own departmental processes and improve them. If a workflow is broken or slow, you are expected to find it and fix it without being asked
Keep every project on timeline and flag risks early, not after deadlines slip
Dig into campaign and channel data, ask the second and third question, and bring recommendations rather than just the reports
Bring new ideas. Following the process and improving the process are both the job
Over time, represent the CMO in select vendor and internal meetings and return with informed recommendations
What We Are Looking For Must-Haves: 5+ years of marketing experience with demonstrated ownership of execution and process
Event management experience leading a small team through multiple events per year
Proven ability to lead projects and influence a team without formal direct reports
Nice-to-Haves: Legal, financial services, or other professional services marketing background
Working knowledge of email marketing infrastructure including DKIM, SPF, and database segmentation
Experience managing an email database in the tens of thousands of contacts
You Are the Right Fit If... You get satisfaction from making an operation run better
You have led events, not just staffed them
You look at a report and immediately have three questions about why the numbers look that way
You make decisions in your lane without waiting for permission
You would rather fix a process once than work around it fifty times

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