Jr Brand Strategist - B2B (Remote / Hybrid)

At Viral Nation, we specialize in building social-first ecosystems for brands to connect with the modern consumer journey. Our integrated solutions align strategy, talent, media, and technology with culturally relevant creativity to scale the world’s fastest-growing digital brands. Viral Nation offers a fluid, creative, and growth-oriented environment that will support your ambitions to apply your talents in an open, collaborative, and fast-paced culture. Our ability to stay at the forefront of the industry has fueled our success and will guide us in paving the path forward. We’re driven to push boundaries and think beyond today to deliver strategies, and we’re just getting started.
While we continuously exceed our goals, we need your help – our success is only as great as our people. Strong performance leads to high expectations, and we must keep raising the bar!
About The Role
Viral Nation is hiring a jr Brand Strategist - B2B who will report to the Senior Strategist (Business Development). As part of the Business Development team, the successful candidate will use their superior writing, editing, and analytical skills to assist the team with producing winning proposals in response to Request for Proposals (RFPs), Request for Information (RFIs) and with the generation of marketing material for bid submissions. We seek a motivated, confident person who will work closely with a tight knit team actively participating in the proposal management process and developing killer presentations that will blow clients away.
Who you are:

• You thrive in a dynamic and fast-growing environment where deadlines are tight, priorities are constantly changing, and high standards are to be met
• A background/understanding of earned media in a digital and social media context
• You know your way around social listening tools
• You are the type of person who loves going down a research rabbit hole to find insightful nuggets
• You get excited about multi-channel funnel building for lead generation
• Self-driven, results-oriented, and a team player
• As a self-starter, you’re able to work independently in a remote/work-from-home environment
• Challenges and competing priorities don’t phase you
• You are high-energy and strive for personal and organizational improvement
• You use a data-driven approach to develop strategies and choose tactics
• You keep up to date with the B2B marketing landscape
• You understand the difference between brand and performance marketing
• You understand the difference between top-of-funnel marketing and bottom- funnel
• An understanding of performance / paid media marketing across social and digital

What you'll do here:

• Coordinate with internal stakeholders to schedule any required kick-off, qualification, information gathering, scope, or proposal review meetings.
• Independently and confidently manage the writing, editing, preparation, and submission of all proposal response documents to ensure they are compliant, clear, consistent, are error-free, and impactful.
• Provide general administrative support within the Business Development department where needed
• Simultaneously manage multiple RFP response projects within tight timelines.
• Stay up to date on current trends and best practices in the field of B2B marketing (social, digital and out-of-home)
• Update our knowledge base in an always-on manner to support future responses.
• Under the direction of the Senior Strategist, create and distribute project outlines and assign RFP requirements to relevant project team members for completion, supporting on tasks independently where needed
• Support all activities related to the assembly, production, and delivery of a fully-compliant proposal on time and in the format as specified by the Senior Strategist & greater Business Development team.
• Support the Strategy & Business Development teams with the development of a full proposal response lifecycle, from opportunity research, RFI/ RFP intake, strategy development, creative ideation through to submission.
• Ideate and strategize winning concepts for ongoing proposals and bids, as per client briefs in the B2B category

What you need to have:

• You can work under pressure to deliver excellent quality work on quick deadlines
• You have excellent interpersonal, team, and written and verbal communication skills
• You are proficient with Google Drive software (Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides)
• You are proactive, have pristine organization skills and pay close attention to detail
• Bonus - comfortable with Adobe Creative Suite.
• You have 2-3 years of work experience in the B2B digital/social marketing field (agency experience preferred)
• Graduated from an accredited college or university within the field of business administration with a specialization in marketing
• You have analytical, strategic and data visualization skills
• An individual who is comfortable in creating innovative cross channel marketing strategies that exceed the rudimentary B2B methodology
• You have been exposed to influencer marketing and paid social campaigns

Viral Nation is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in our agency. Viral Nation welcomes applications from people with visible and non-visible disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruiting and selection process.