MERU
Director of Marketing
Atlanta, GA · Director
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 35 days ago
Data AnalysisData ScienceData VisualizationSEOSEMCRMBusiness DevelopmentLeadershipCommunicationPublic Speaking
About the role
- A values-driven, impact-oriented team dedicated to fixing companies.
- We bring deep turnaround experience, a group of veteran operators, and an incentive-aligned approach to any situation.
- Unlike most Firms, we actually focus on the achievement of those goals for each individual team member, providing opportunities that would not usually be offered.
Responsibilities
- Partner with clients during uncertain times to help stabilize operations and rapidly triage the causes of financial distress, charting a path back to long-term sustainability.
- Partner with private equity firms across the investment lifecycle, from due diligence to portfolio value creation and exit planning.
- Work with companies at all stages of their digital transformation journey to automate reporting processes, build scalable data platforms, and leverage predictive analytics to transform data from a liability into an asset.
Compensation
- We provide advisory services and data analytics support to middle-market companies ($50M - $2B in annual sales), and our clients include private equity firms, credit funds, investment banks, and law firms.
Company info
- We provide advisory services and data analytics support to middle-market companies ($50M - $2B in annual sales), and our clients include private equity firms, credit funds, investment banks, and law firms.
- MERU was founded by professionals from Alvarez & Marsal and McKinsey and has seen rapid growth in the eight-plus years since its founding.
- We are MERU.
- The MERU Way & Valuing Our Team: We're Partners, not consultants.
- When you join MERU, you will help our clients solve their most pressing problems, supported by a team of people who will challenge you, support you, and inspire you.
- In order to be Partners, we don't silo people into just one functional area of the business, instead advancing our team's capabilities by providing training for every service that MERU offers.
- Additionally, we don't just focus on technical skills but also leadership style and soft skills, so MERU team members not only know what it means to manage a client engagement but to lead a team to success.
- In training team members to be well-rounded individuals, we can deliver an overall higher impact to clients, allowing the ability to gain experience in diligence, turnarounds, interim management, data science, and more.
- To aid this career advancement and development, MERU provides an internal Coach to each team member in order to guide and maintain their professional development plan goals.
- Finally, MERU values personal time, only traveling when necessary in order to celebrate and respect your personal life.
- We believe that by encouraging and mandating balance, it will lead to happier and longer-tenured team members.
- When you come to MERU, you come to further your career and maintain your entrepreneurial spirit, never losing sight of the desire to provide meaningful impact, solutions, and value to clients.
- Learn more about our colleagues' core characteristics and culture here: https://wearemeru.com/meru-way.
- Role Responsibilities
- As the Director of Marketing at MERU, you will shape how our brand shows up in the market and how we deepen trusted relationships with clients and partners.
- Reporting directly to the COO, this is a senior role for someone who thrives at the intersection of marketing strategy, brand awareness and growth, business development enablement, and client relationship cultivation.
- You'll bring proven experience in high-touch, trust-based sales environments (professional services, private equity, or adjacent sectors) and a track record of building programs that generate measurable growth.
- You'll serve as both strategist and hands-on, participatory leader-elevating MERU's profile, guiding campaigns and activities, and equipping our team with the right tools, messages, and relationships to drive impact.
- Director of Marketing Job Responsibilities
- In partnership with leadership, the Marketing Council, the Relationship Cultivation Council, Director of Events and other stakeholders, help to define and execute an integrated marketing strategy that preserves and strengthens MERU's brand as a trusted partner in professional services
- Partner with firm leadership and the Marketing Council to develop thought leadership, campaigns, and brand assets that resonate with private equity and C suite audiences
- Ensure full and timely integration and marketing attention for all MERU service lines, current and future (see below list of service offerings)
- In coordination with other stakeholders, ensure consistency and excellence across all channels, materials and communications, from digital to events to client touchpoints
- Identify growth opportunities in target markets, industry sectors and with the firm's key relationships
- Lead efforts to map and strengthen key client, private equity, advisor relationships and other referral sources
- Develop and promote CRM, pipeline, and market intelligence practices that support firm-wide growth
- Partner with firm leadership and service line groups to drive client acquisition and retention of firm key accounts
Equal opportunity
- It is MERU's policy to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, pregnancy, marital status, family status, religion, national origin, age or disability or any other non-merit based factor in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.
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