Associate, Global Marketing & Digital Wealth Retirement Marketing Team, U.S. Retirement Product Marketing (Defined Contributions)

BlackRock • Princeton, NY

7h • $90,000 - $135,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Team: The U.S. Retirement Marketing team is part of the Americas Marketing organization and is responsible for driving commercial impact for the defined contribution (DC) business while elevating the firm’s retirement brand through bold storytelling and strategic marketing initiatives across digital and traditional distribution channels. R ole and Impact: The U.S. Retirement Product Marketing Associate for BlackRock’s U.S. Retirement business will help solve critical distribution challenges for the world’s largest asset manager. This role will build and own a DC Product Marketing program focused on creating clear, compelling point-of-sale content that scales across digital channels and differentiates BlackRock’s DC solutions with U.S. institutional clients and retirement plan advisors. This is a new role within a growing business and offers the opportunity to create a high-impact marketing program that directly supports sales teams in client engagement. This role requires a unique combination of deep product expertise and creative strength, enabling the development of highly effective, differentiated marketing content. The position will begin as an individual contributor role, with strong opportunities for growth and expanded responsibility over time.

Requirements

• A passion for investing and willingness to learn more in this area.
• Expertise in content creation, design and a creative mindset that comes across in the deliverables produced.
• Strength in writing and communication. We want Marketers who make the complex simple, who can relate concepts with visuals and a minimum number of words.
• Strong project management skills and proven effectiveness at strategic relationship building across internal and external stakeholders.
• We seek a team player with strong interpersonal communication and presentation skills.
• Pro-active, self-starter with ability to organize, prioritize and execute multiple projects across multiple stakeholders simultaneously, in a deadline-driven environment.
• We seek someone who sweats the small stuff and has meticulous attention to the last 5% of the details.
• Strong experience in PowerPoint is a must.
• A positive attitude, willingness to get your hands dirty and a partnership over mission approach.
• Comfortable with some having some operational aspect to the role.
• Shared Analysts available to support.
• BS/BA degree in business administration, finance, marketing or economics preferable.
• 3–6 years of marketing experience in financial services preferred, with experience in retirement and a strong understanding of defined contribution (DC) products highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Expert messaging and content creator: Create commercial DC product narratives and content for distribution at point-of-sale with institutional clients and retirement plan advisors in addition to translating digitally to BlackRock websites.
• Develop deep understanding BlackRock’s DC products and financial markets with the goal of providing insights and ideas for products.
• Identify industry and client trends to create a differentiated and impactful BlackRock experience for investors.
• Bring a strong creative edge and design sensibility, with expert-level PowerPoint skills and the ability to produce visually compelling, client-ready materials independently.
• Optimize content by extracting insights from analytics and partnering with internal and external stakeholders to continuously improve.
• Be adept at writing clearly and effectively.
• Display extreme attention to detail in your work.
• Edit existing content to address needs within specific firms and channels.
• Develop deep understanding of partner firm’s home offices and BlackRock products and platforms with the goal of providing input and ideas on marketing plans.
• Relationship management/communication: Use a OneBlackRock approach to work effectively with partners in Marketing, Sales, Strategic Accounts, Product, Compliance and other areas.
• Listen to, understand and evaluate stakeholder input and use feedback to inform content and projects.
• Be comfortable pushing back on partners when needed but additionally be willing to go the extra mile to maintain and build great relationships.
• Communicate effectively with partners to ensure projects move forward in alignment with stakeholder expectations.
• Project management and operations: Expertly manage senior stakeholders and multiple team inputs to quickly and efficiently create content, gain appropriate legal and compliance approvals and identify appropriate distribution channels.
• Move an idea from concept through implementation and measurement.
• Work independently and proactively, demonstrating sound judgment with limited guidance.
• Track progress, identify risks and work with key stakeholders to successfully execute projects.
• Inventory, monitor and update various catalogs of content and organize them so they are easy to find and use by Sales teams.
• Leverage JIRA and SEO best practices to publish digital insights.
• Be open to taking on projects outside of core product marketing, including digital, social, and event support, as business needs evolve.

Benefits

• employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits.
• strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees