Marketing Specialist – Life Sciences

Cooley • San Diego, CA

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About The Position

Cooley is seeking a Marketing Specialist – Life Sciences to join the Marketing and Client Development team. 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.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree
• 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

Responsibilities

• Provide ongoing updates and maintenance for practice descriptions, brochures, and digital bios to ensure "Always Ready" availability.
• Maintain the integrity of practice-specific contact lists and relationship data within the CRM, ensuring accurate segmentation for campaign enablers.
• Coordinate the assembly and distribution of standard marketing kits and attendee materials for practice-led events and initiatives.
• Pull recurring reports from firm technologies to track practice group activities, pitch volume, and pipeline status for BU leadership.
• Support the practice by inputting matter details and credentials into the firm’s experience database.
• Maintain the tracker for all BU-specific sponsorships, deadlines, and required deliverables to ensure all benefits are realized.
• Liaise with attorneys to facilitate regular updates to partner biographies and external legal directory profiles.
• 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

Benefits

• 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
• other parental support benefits
• firm-paid life insurance
• firm-paid AD&D
• firm-paid LTD
• short term medical benefits
• 20 days of Paid Time Off (“PTO”)
• 10 paid holidays
• generous parental leave
• fertility benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level