Campaign and Events Specialist (Emerging Careers) - 12-Months Contract | Hybrid | Cary, North Carolina

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About the job

The North America Field Marketing Team is looking for a contract Campaign and Events Specialist (Emerging Careers) who will handle the operational and administrative workload for key regional marketing activities. Our team serves a strategic marketing function focused on demand generation, campaign orchestration, and cross-functional alignment across the U.S. and Canada. We operate across industries, business units, and global initiatives, with a strong emphasis on measurable impact, collaboration, and agility.

As a Campaign and Events Specialist (Emerging Careers), you will:

• Utilize and master systems that enable marketing processes and campaign development.
• Maintain accurate and timely system operations by entering campaign codes and event setup in our CRM and marketing workflow tools.
• Facilitate contract approvals through evaluation and routing.
• Coordinate shipping and logistics for events.
• Manage promotional items.
• Upload marketing leads and process post-event.
• Initiate and nurture relationships with internal partners, stakeholders and third-party vendors to ensure successful event/activity/project completion.
• Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.

 Required qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in a marketing operations, events or similar role.
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in business, marketing or related field.
• Good understanding of business-to-business sales/marketing processes, operations, and initiatives.
• Strong customer service, organizational, and communication skills; ability to work in a fast- paced, customer-driven environment; ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage time effectively; strong decision-making, problem-solving, and project management skills.
• Ability to work under pressure with specific deadlines and attention to detail.
• Proficiency in key internal and external software applications.
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.

Additional competencies, knowledge and skills

• Building Partnerships - Developing and leveraging relationships within and across work groups to achieve results.
• Planning and Organizing - Establishing an action plan for self and others to complete work efficiently and on time by setting priorities, establishing timelines, and leveraging resources.
• Driving For Results - Setting high goals for personal and group accomplishment; using measurement methods to monitor progress toward goals; tenaciously working to meet or exceed goals while deriving satisfaction from that achievement and continuous improvement.

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Additional Information:

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