Cooley LLP

Marketing Specialist - Life Sciences

Cooley LLP$68K — $99K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in marketing or business development
  • Demonstrated industry experience specifically in life sciences
  • Prior experience in professional services or B2B marketing
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, iManage, and other firm applications after training
  • Ability to work overtime as needed

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and update practice materials for 'Always Ready' availability
  • Ensure data integrity in CRM for effective campaign segmentation
  • Coordinate logistics for marketing kits and event materials
  • Track and report activities from various firm technologies to BU leadership
  • Enter matter details into the firm's experience database
  • Monitor sponsorships, deadlines, and deliverables for BU-specific initiatives
  • Facilitate updates to attorney biographies and legal directory profiles
  • Support large-scale BU projects and data collection efforts

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical coverage
  • Health savings account options with applicable medical plans
  • Dental and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending accounts for health and dependent care
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Life insurance and AD&D coverage
  • Long-term care coverage
  • Backup care support for children and adults
  • Generous parental leave and fertility benefits
  • 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) plus 10 paid holidays
  • Detailed benefit orientation for new employees
Full Job Description
Marketing Specialist - Life Sciences
Cooley is seeking a Marketing Specialist - Life Sciences to join the Marketing and Client Development team.

Position summary: This role is part of the Business Unit Marketing Team, which acts as the strategic consultant to, and primary bridge between, practice group leadership and the broader Marketing & Client Development organization. This team translates commercial objectives and competitive insight into marketing and client development plans. They work across Marketing & Client Development to activate these plans, offering the appropriate level of strategic and tactical support tailored to the needs of each business unit. Specific duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Position responsibilities:
  • Collateral Maintenance: Provide ongoing updates and maintenance for practice descriptions, brochures, and digital bios to ensure "Always Ready" availability.
  • CRM Data Hygiene: Maintain the integrity of practice-specific contact lists and relationship data within the CRM, ensuring accurate segmentation for campaign enablers.
  • Logistical Material Support: Coordinate the assembly and distribution of standard marketing kits and attendee materials for practice-led events and initiatives.
  • Standard Activity Reporting: Pull recurring reports from firm technologies to track practice group activities, pitch volume, and pipeline status for BU leadership.
  • Matter Experience Entry: Support the practice by inputting matter details and credentials into the firm's experience database.
  • Sponsorship Tracking: Maintain the tracker for all BU-specific sponsorships, deadlines, and required deliverables to ensure all benefits are realized.
  • Digital Profile Coordination: Liaise with attorneys to facilitate regular updates to partner biographies and external legal directory profiles.
  • Administrative Project Support: Provide tactical support for large-scale BU projects, such as the data collection phase of the Chambers submission process.
  • All other duties as assigned or required


Skills and experience:

Required:
  • After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications
  • Available to work overtime, as required
  • 3+ years applicable experience in the field (e.g., marketing or business development)
  • Prior professional services industry experience and/or B2B marketing experience
  • Must have demonstrated industry experience in life sciences

Preferred:
  • Bachelor's degree


Competencies:
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Approaches tasks through a lens of quality and consistency
  • Approaches tasks through a digital first lens
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to organize, prioritize and coordinate multiple activities
  • Works with team to set goals, drive projects, and achieve outcomes
  • Strong judgment
  • Team-player with collaborative spirit
  • Unwavering ability to handle and maintain confidentiality regarding firm information, projects, client data
  • High level of professionalism at all times


The expected hourly pay range for this position with a work schedule of 40 hours per week is $33.00 - $48.00 ($68,640.00 - $99,840.00 annually). Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience and skillset of the candidate.

We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as 20 days of Paid Time Off ("PTO") and 10 paid holidays each year. We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.

About Cooley LLP

Cooley LLP is an American international law firm, headquartered in Palo Alto, California with offices worldwide. The firm's practice areas include corporate, litigation, intellectual property, fund formation, public markets, employment, life sciences, clean tech, real estate, and tax. Cooley's clients include private and public companies, financial institutions, venture capital firms, and nonprofit organizations. Cooley has been recognized as one of the top law firms for technology and life sciences companies. The firm has also been recognized for its diversity and inclusion initiatives.
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