A Great Career Opportunity At One Of Our Clients:

Employer: TIAA-CREF Tuition Financing, Inc.
Role: Core Marketing Program Manager

Start date: ASAP
Location: Flexible (US based) – Role is and will remain remote
Contract employee for 30 – 40 hours per week

Interested candidates please send their resume and a brief cover letter to:
Talent@mabstrategic.com


JOB DESCRIPTION

TIAA-CREF Tuition Financing, Inc. (TFI) is a one of the nation’s leading managers of 529 college savings plans.  A subsidiary of financial service giant TIAA, we work with six states to manage direct-sold programs with assets of over $32 billion. 

We pride ourselves on helping families prepare to meet higher education expenses, helping our state partners meet their goals of inclusiveness and improved college access across diverse populations, while delivering strong business results to our organization.   We offer innovative outreach programs and ongoing consumer education initiatives -- all fueled by a data-driven, state-of-the-art core consumer marketing program.

Core Marketing Program Manager Role:  You will be responsible for the ongoing delivery and effectiveness of a shared marketing program that spans six 529 plans and is pivotal to our division’s success.  You will work with both the marketing managers of each 529 plan and as well as our lead marketing partner/agency.  This is a key leadership role and your success will be measured in real business results, effective stewardship of resources, and compelling merchandising of results to state partners via marketing colleagues. 

The Right Candidate:  You are a poised, smart, action-oriented strategic thinker.  You have a proven track record of getting things done – of building consensus while adding value.  You thrive working with a decentralized team.  You are adept at both hearing and shaping the opinions of those you work with.  You excel at working on complex products in a highly regulated industry. You get work done on time and on budget. 

You have 5+ years marketing experience, ideally in consumer investment services working at or with marketing/advertising agency with responsibility for creative, budget and business results.  You have an understanding of or interest in personal finance.     

Responsibilities:

Establish Category and Program Expertise

  • Become steeped in college savings consumer attitudes, habits, apprehensions, misconceptions, and product strengths

  • Become proficient in key reporting of Core Marketing Program

Over time, propose changes to the Core Marketing Program strategies and tactics, particularly the testing of new media options that engage younger prospects  

Communications and Process Facilitation

  • Serve as the central conduit between internal marketing professionals and agency team members, and facilitate the sharing of feedback on strategy documents and creative executions

  • Champion the strategic intent and anticipated results of Core Marketing Program initiatives

  • Provide oversite of logistics and implementation

  • Coordinate digital implementation and innovation with TFI Director of Digital Properties

Resource Management

  • Monitor consumption of agency hours and recommend adjustments as appropriate

  • Monitor state budget consumption to ensure overages do not occur

Propose resource reallocation to ensure projects are executed as planned

Interested candidates: Please Send your resume and brief cover letter to
Talent@mabstrategic.com