Interested in Joining Our Team?

When we seek new team members at Dobies Health Marketing, we look for talented individuals with the skill sets and drive to excel in healthcare marketing. We are always interested in hearing from experienced healthcare marketers (freelancers included) who have what it takes to add strength and value to our outstanding team of professionals. If that describes you, view our job openings below and tell us why you make a great fit!

Marketing Manager

Our healthcare marketing, branding and advertising firm in downtown Kansas City is seeking an exceptional Marketing Manager for its healthcare and hospital accounts. This integral position is responsible for overall client engagement and account management including planning, coordinating and directing highly integrated marketing and advertising initiatives for clients. The Marketing Manager collaborates in and supports the development and implementation of strategic marketing plans for clients and ensures the professional and timely execution of those plans in collaboration with the firm’s communication and creative services teams.

This position is a member of the client services team reporting up to the Vice President of Client Services. Candidates should have 4-5 years’ experience facilitating integrated and multi-channel marketing campaigns in the health sector.

Primary areas of responsibility:

Advise clients of their strategic marketing opportunities.
Lead client relationships, serving as the subject matter expert within the firm on behalf of key clients.
Ensure deliverables meet and exceed client expectations and stated marketing metrics.
Develop and implement marketing and positioning strategies, communication plans and programs.
Establish competitive market position, brand differentiation and awareness of the organization among target audiences (B2B and B2C).
Manage timely and on-budget execution of client deliverables to ensure their strategic objectives and goals are met.
Execute and implement client marketing plans in collaboration with content, creative and media teams.
Develop and assess creative concepts, alignment to strategy, creative campaigns, campaign ROI, and measure/monitor client budgets, job profitability and defined key performance indicators.

Special Skills Required:

Strong critical thinking and complex problem-solving skills
Proven ability to develop effective marketing strategies and tactical marketing plans
Exceptional attention to detail
Ability to manage on time, on strategy and on budget deliverables
Well-organized, detail-oriented
Produces professional results within tight deadlines
Exceptional people skills, and the ability to contribute strategic ideas to and communicate effectively and professionally with clients
Confident and highly engaged with the fundamentals of marketing, branding and advertising in healthcare
Strong commitment to ensuring client success

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree required: related field
4-5 years of experience in a marketing division, firm, advertising agency or hospital marketing department
Healthcare experience strongly preferred
Naturally eager to learn, grow and engage
Optimistic and positive approach
Self-motivated, results-oriented, team player and problem-solver
Clear level of accountability to exceptional work effort and product

Professionalism:

Attention to detail and professionalism a must
Superior organizational skills
Manages multiple projects and meets deadlines
Drives assigned projects, from conception to execution
Resourceful and self–motivated; completes projects independently
A team-focused attitude
Extremely motivated and willing to work in a fast-paced, hard-working environment
Maintains curiosity about healthcare, marketing and advertising trends
Works well within a team
Professional presentation skills

The right candidate will bring an inherent commitment to marketing excellence, with the ability to deeply engage in each client’s success. They will be eager to thrive in a fast-paced, team-oriented and supportive environment. Grow with the Kansas City region’s leading strategy-first health marketing firm – please send a cover letter and resume to careers@dobies.com. Equal Opportunity Employer

Marketing Specialist

Our healthcare marketing, branding and advertising firm located at Crown Center in the heart of Hospital Hill is seeking a talented Marketing Specialist with a diverse set of skills. This position is responsible for multiple aspects of coordinating highly integrated marketing projects for our clients and our firm.

Success in this position requires proactive collaboration with creative, content, media, production and client services teams to support, manage and accelerate multiple concurrent projects. It requires strengths in critical thinking, project management, written and verbal communication, and attention to detail. The right candidate will show an enthusiastically positive attitude for making sure work is error-free, on time and on budget.

This position reports to the Strategic Marketing Manager/Director.

Primary areas of responsibility:

Marketing Coordination

Support and coordinate project work – including complex and highly integrated campaign/communication materials – with the goal of completing milestones and deliverables on time, on strategy, and within budget and scope.
Coordinate and deliver integrated marketing tactics (print, media, organic and paid digital media, email campaigns, web development projects, etc.)
Maintain client and agency production, paid media, social media and/or creative calendars.
Assist in coordinating workflow and workload for the creative services team to efficiently meet client needs.
Monitor the tactical production process and adjust project coordination to optimize productivity.
Provide project support to senior leadership as needed.

Client Services Coordination

Take initiative in learning/understanding each client’s products and services, culture/ethos and strategic marketing and positioning strategy.
Support tactical work needed to achieve client goals and defined strategy.
Communicate status and next steps and solicit client approvals as directed by client lead.
Develop knowledge of client projects, timelines, budgets, strategy, etc., to serve as secondary support for assigned clients.
Provide client support to senior leadership as needed.

Skills and Success Factors:

Communication: Demonstrates clear, concise written and verbal skills.
Professionalism: Maintains a polished, professional approach to working with a wide range of clients and contacts.
Flexibility: Able to work extended hours when work volumes/tight deadlines apply.
Organized: Manages day-to-day coordination of multiple projects exceptionally well.
Creative: All members of our team think conceptually and recognize strong ideas. The ability to develop appealing visual graphics and support InDesign editing is a plus.
Tech savvy: Work efficiently and effectively with Microsoft (PowerPoint, Excel, Word), Adobe Creative Suite and web tools (e.g., WordPress).
Detail-oriented: Pays close attention to details.
Initiative: Shows desire to take charge and seize opportunities for growth.
Team player: Prefers and enjoys a fast-paced, energetic work environment.
Driven: Has a desire to accelerate within the company to independently manage client accounts

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree required: related field, Marketing Communications preferred
Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a marketing firm or advertising agency, corporate marketing environment or hospital marketing department.
Results-oriented, strategic and creative thinker, team player, problem-solver, self-motivated to learn, grow and engage.
Shows evidence of accuracy and attention to detail (through past work samples or similar projects).

Interested candidates please send us your resume and cover letter to careers@dobies.com for consideration. EOE

Senior Media Planner

Kansas City-based healthcare marketing firm is seeking a Senior Media Planner to oversee regional and national hospital and healthcare client media strategies. The Senior Media Planner is responsible for leading and managing workflow processes for paid advertising, including but not limited to programmatic digital, social media, PPC/print /radio/tv/out-of-home, and more. With deep expertise in healthcare, you can quickly grow into an Associate Director position.

The Senior Media Planner works closely with client services, creative services, accounting, and our national buying partners to deliver highly effective media plans for our clients. This position oversees media workflow – from media strategy and plan development to launching media plans, distributing approved media assets, providing ongoing media management and optimization, and tracking/reporting in conjunction with other data and digital marketing team members.

Success in this position requires a deep understanding of healthcare advertising and the ability to identify media opportunities to optimize targeting and reach across multiple channels to maximize awareness, sales, patient acquisition, and other KPIs. The right candidate will research trends in media, effective advertising design, and continually identify opportunities to stay ahead of regulatory changes related to privacy and HIPAA compliance.

This position reports to the Vice President of Media & Creative Services.

Primary areas of responsibility:

Collaborate with the media team and partners to plan, buy, and execute media strategies via multiple traditional, non-traditional, digital and programmatic media platforms.
Interpret client goals, needs and budgets
Establish and manage budgets for ad campaigns
Establish project timelines and enforce deadlines
Manage the delivery of creative assets to media partners on time, to specs provided, including the assignment of tracking tools (UTM codes, pixel placements, landing page URLs, et. al.), as needed.
Maintain all active media plans, media authorizations, calendars, insertion orders, change orders, and tracking/reporting documentation for all media clients.
Monitor media portals and reconcile weekly supporting approved/active media plans.
Oversee the accurate input current and approved media plans into agency software system while supporting media billing/invoicing of clients based on agreements, insertion orders.

Skills and Success Factors:

Analytical Skills: monitor KPIs and use data to refine media plans
Leadership: Effectively guide the team in creating and delivering effective media campaigns
Communication: Demonstrates clear, concise written and verbal skills.
Professionalism: Maintains a polished, professional approach to working with a wide range of clients and contacts.
Flexibility: Able to work extended hours when work volumes/tight deadlines apply.
Organized: Manages day-to-day coordination of multiple projects exceptionally well.
Detail-oriented: Attention to details is of paramount importance.
Initiative: Shows desire to take charge and seize opportunities for growth.
Team player: Prefers and enjoys a fast-paced, energetic work environment.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree required: related field
Located in Kansas City
5-8 years of experience in paid media management within a marketing firm or advertising agency, corporate marketing environment, hospital marketing department; demonstrated experience related to media buying, planning and management.
Results-oriented, team player, problem-solver, self-motivated to learn, grow and engage.
Shows evidence of accuracy and attention to detail (through past work samples or similar projects).

To be considered, please send your resume, cover letter and work samples to careers@dobies.com. EOE

Website Specialist

Dobies Health Marketing, a strategy-focused healthcare marketing and branding firm located at Crown Center in the heart of Hospital Hill, is seeking a Website Specialist with a passion for website management, design, maintenance and creating properties that drives traffic, leads and conversions. This position is responsible for overall project management, as well as building, formatting, updating and optimizing web pages in WordPress for our clients and our firm.

The Website Specialist works with our internal teams to manage the Discovery, Design and Develop phases of website creation to assure they align with client requirements. A critical component, the position creates pages within established WordPress templates and assorted visual/content elements to make design and copy come to life for the best user experience. The ideal candidate will be creative, efficient, and detail oriented – a natural problem-solver and someone with wide-ranging skill sets that support UX excellence.

Responsibilities:

Project management oversight, with an emphasis on the Discovery, Design and Develop phases
Building web pages to align with design and content direction
Proactively collaborating with design, content and account team members as needed to troubleshoot issues, flow, appearance and readability of web content (including but not limited to copy, images, calls-to-action, navigation and formatting)
Ensure web pages display optimally on all screen sizes
Actively participate in web team status meetings
Effectively manage multiple projects concurrently
Identify and use the correct tools, resources and team members to answer questions and find solutions
Demonstrate self-sufficiency as needed to ensure quality work is delivered on time and on budget
Review all work, checking links, metadata, etc. for quality assurance
Other tasks as required for page/post creation and upkeep

Essential Skills Required:

Proven experience working in WordPress for page builds
Ability to work with graphic design and excel at technical implementation
Experience with cross-browser/platform responsiveness and mobile web UX
Understanding good design aesthetics and functionality for web platforms
Experience using Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator
Proficient in website and image optimization techniques
Strong knowledge of best practices for responsive websites with adaptive design
Tracking and managing time in accordance with project hours requirements

Our Ideal Candidate Will Have:

A bachelor’s degree
A minimum of 3 years’ experience managing multiple websites simultaneously
Advanced knowledge of WordPress and HTML; experience and familiarity with the WordPress Enfold theme is a plus
Experience partnering/collaborating with web designers and writers for clear, cohesive final page content
Proficiency in the Google Docs Suite and other Workspace tools, as well as select Adobe Creative Suite applications (see above) and Microsoft Office
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Strong organization, time management, troubleshooting and decision-making skills
Knowledge of other web content management systems preferred but not required
Proven experience applying best practices for UX excellence
Experience with tracking code installation (Google Tag Manager, placing pixels, setting up UTM codes, etc.)

To be considered, please send your resume, cover letter and work samples to careers@dobies.com. EOE

We employ full-time, part-time and contract positions. Full-time benefits include medical insurance, retirement benefits and paid vacation. We specialize in:

Strategic healthcare marketing plans, from development to implementation
Healthcare brand development, from audits to new brand roll-outs
Creative healthcare advertising campaigns, from concept to execution
Digital marketing in healthcare, from web content to site development, SEO and social media

Qualified professionals, please send your resume, cover letter and work samples (if applicable) to careers@dobies.com.

We are located in the Library District of downtown Kansas City. View a map of our location.

Dobies Health Marketing is an equal opportunity employer.