Sales and Marketing Associate

Job Description

The Sales & Marketing Assistant is a versatile role player in helping achieving sales and marketing objectives. The focus on the role is on understanding, performing, and optimizing processes that contribute to successful sales and marketing efforts.

The service we sell and market is Robotic Process Automation (“RPA”) delivered as a fully-managed service in mid-to-large sized organizations.

The successful candidate is aggressive, collaborative, intelligent, and has a demonstrated ability to think and articulate concepts in a systematic, detailed manner.

Essential Responsibilities

• Marketing Support
  • Event Support
    1. Manage the events calendar
    2. Ensure run-of-show logistics
    3. Submit and manage Global Event requisitions and approvals
  • Collateral Support
    1. Assist in creation of marketing materials such as white papers, case studies, and presentations
    2. Assist with sales presentations by gathering relevant resources including proposals, slide decks, videos, quotations, and other information as requested
    3. Preparing, formatting and editing a range of documents
  • Understand company product and brand
  • Create a variety of reports and aggregate supporting data
• Sales Support
  • Ensure compliance and data integrity within Customer Relationship Management system
  • Support creation of pipeline reporting and compliance from internal CRM system and Corporate SalesForce instance
• Client Relationship Support
  • Prepare customer survey contact lists with client relationship teams and ensure adequate coverage of accounts
  • Aggregate account-level data for certain reports
  • Ensure compliance and data integrity within Customer Relationship Management system
• Executive Support
  • Create and submit expense reports
  • Managing scheduling and coordination of key meetings
  • Provide detailed note-taking support for key meetings and proactively track agreed upon action items and follow up to on action item statuses periodically to ensure progress
  • Ad hoc administrative support across sales and marketing functions

• Bachelor’s degree required; Technical concentration preferred
• SQL, Excel, and Business Intelligence experience preferred
• Administration or sales and marketing assistant experience preferred
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• A high level of attention to detail
• Ability to work effectively within a team and independently
• Experience using computers for a variety of tasks
• Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Strong organization skills

Our strength is built on our ability to work together. Our diverse backgrounds offer different perspectives and new ways of thinking. It supports lively discussions, encourages thought leadership, and helps us build better solutions for our clients. We want someone who thrives in this setting and is encouraged to craft meaningful solutions through true collaboration.

If you’re comfortable with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you Cognizant is recognized as a Military Friendly Employer and is a coalition member of the Veteran Jobs Mission. Our Cognizant Veterans Network Welcomes Veterans in building and growing a career at Cognizant that allows them to demonstrate the leadership, loyalty, integrity, and dedication to excellence instilled in them through participation in military service.

Cognizant Technology Solutions is an Equal Opportunities Employer and encourages applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion, or belief or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

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