The Role
The Marketing Coordinator will support digital campaigns, content development, events, and internal marketing efforts while managing timelines and collaborating with teams and vendors.
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Meet the Company:
We are MERU. A values-driven, impact-oriented team dedicated to fixing companies. 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. We bring deep turnaround experience, a group of veteran operators, and an incentive-aligned approach to any situation. MERU was founded by professionals from Alvarez & Marsal and McKinsey and has seen rapid growth in the eight-plus years since its founding.
We’re seeking a part-time Marketing Coordinator with 3–5 years of experience to support the execution of marketing initiatives across digital campaigns, content development, events, and internal marketing efforts. This role is ideal for a highly organized, proactive individual who enjoys keeping projects moving, collaborating with vendors and internal teams, and supporting a variety of initiatives without full-time hours.
You’ll work closely with the Marketing Director to coordinate campaigns, manage timelines, develop content, and support both external brand marketing and internal personnel-focused efforts. You will have ownership over some areas of the marketing function and be responsible for running initiatives on-own with direction and support from the Marketing Director and in collaboration with key stakeholders and internal teams.
Coordinator, Marketing Job Responsibilities
- Support the Marketing Director across digital marketing campaigns, website projects, events, and personnel marketing initiatives
- Coordinate and execute marketing campaigns across email, LinkedIn, digital, and event channels
- Manage marketing calendars, timelines, and deliverables to ensure projects stay on track
- Assist with content development and copywriting for emails, social media posts, presentations, and marketing materials
- Create and edit marketing assets using Canva, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines
- Manage and publish content on LinkedIn when needed, including scheduling posts and tracking basic performance metrics
- Execute and manage email marketing campaigns in Mailchimp, including list management and reporting
- Assist with events, including vendor communication, logistics, timelines, and follow-up
- Support gifting initiatives for clients and internal stakeholders, including coordination and fulfillment
- Maintain marketing trackers, budgets, and reporting using Excel and Google Sheets
- Develop polished, on-brand presentations using PowerPoint
- Track campaign performance and prepare basic reports and insights
- Collaborate with internal teams and external vendors to ensure smooth execution across initiatives
Coordinator, Marketing Job Qualifications
- 3–5 years of experience in marketing, communications, or a related role
- Proficiency in Canva for creating and editing marketing assets
- Strong working knowledge of Excel and Google Sheets for tracking and reporting
- Microsoft Office 365: Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, Word
- Self-starter, proactive and positive mindset
- Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint
- Experience with content development and copywriting, with the ability to adapt messaging across platforms
- Hands-on experience managing LinkedIn content and engagement
- Experience using Mailchimp for email marketing and list management
- Experience coordinating event logistics and vendor relationships
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities independently
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Detail-oriented with a collaborative, proactive working style
- Experience with CRM systems
- Event or field marketing experience
- B2B or professional services marketing experience
Nice to Have
Why You’ll Love This Role:
- Flexible, part-time schedule
- Opportunity to make a meaningful impact across a wide range of marketing initiatives
- Collaborative team environment with room to grow
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. 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.
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/
Overview of MERU Service Offerings:
Performance Improvement:
Help companies identify and achieve their full potential by leveraging a value-focused approach to driving sustainable margin expansion impact. Services include MERU 360° Assessment, Transformation Plan Development, Chief Transformation Officer placement, Cash Cycle and Working Capital Optimization, and Implementation Performance Management.
Turnaround & Restructuring:
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. Services include Interim Management, Turnaround Plan Development and Execution, Liquidity Management, Stakeholder Negotiations, Strategic Alternatives Assessment, Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Case Management.
Transaction Services:
Partner with private equity firms across the investment lifecycle, from due diligence to portfolio value creation and exit planning. Services include Due Diligence, Pre-Close Planning, Post-Close Implementation, and Exit Planning.
Data Insights:
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. Services include Data Discovery and Analysis, Data Prep and Integration, Self-Service Analytics, Data Visualization and Reporting, Data Science and Advanced Analytics, and Strategy Enablement.
Voluntary Inclusion
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.
Unsolicited Resumes from Third-Party Recruiters
Please note that we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any employment agency, person, or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that MERU will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person, or entity.
Top Skills
Canva
Excel
Google Sheets
LinkedIn
Mailchimp
Microsoft Office 365
PowerPoint
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The Company
What We Do
We are MERU. An operationally focused professional services firm with a different point of view.
We are a values-driven, impact-oriented team dedicated to helping companies. We work collaboratively with management and sponsors, use subject matter experts throughout the process, and structure our fees around successful outcomes. We believe our focused and agile approach, along with our experience working in complex situations, allows us to deliver superior results for our clients.
VALUE PROPOSITION
Experience: Senior leaders from the world’s top professional services organizations who know how to deliver successful outcomes in highly complex situations
Deep bench: 150+ specialized subject matter experts with operator backgrounds who uncover hidden value and get things done
Alignment: Highly flexible performance-based fee model that is aligned with successful outcomes
Operator Mindset: Deep experience serving in interim executive roles and working hand-in-hand with management teams to get things done
SERVICE OFFERING
Transaction Services:
Operational diligence
Finance function assessment (processes, systems)
Reporting package development (dashboards, KPIs)
Initiative identification and implementation
First 100-day planning
Performance Improvement:
360 Assessment - EBITDA & balance sheet potential
Transformation plan development
Chief Transformation Officer
Cash cycle and working capital optimization
Implementation performance management
Turnaround and Restructuring:
Liquidity & liability management
Diligence strategic options
Turnaround plan development
Capital Advisory
Stakeholder comms / negotiations
Chief Restructuring Officer
Contingency planning
Chapter 11 administration
Debt restructuring
Data Insights:
Data Discovery and Analysis
Data Strategy and Enablement
Solution Development: Data integration, Data visualization, Predictive analytics (AI/ML)
CLIENT BASE
Middle market ($100M-$2B Revenue)
