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!

Ready to put your digital design skills to work making a difference in how people think about health? Dobies Health Marketing, a well-established, strategy-focused healthcare marketing and branding firm located at Crown Center in the heart of Hospital Hill, is seeking a Digital Graphic Designer to support web and digital design projects. This includes UX design in WordPress, development and production of client advertising campaigns (primarily digital, but could include some traditional design), and marketing materials. The Digital Graphic Designer collaborates with creative, content and client services teams to produce compelling integrated campaigns, websites and digital advertising. The Digital Graphic Designer reports to the VP, Creative Services.

Critical Success Factors:

  • Infuses creative energy into everything we do
  • Ability to design for both B2B and B2C audiences.
  • Designs primarily for web and digital media, with some traditional design as required
  • Manages company and client visual assets and brands
  • Partners well with other web specialists, including web developers and graphic designers and web content developers

Graphic Designer Tasks:

  • Executes and supervises numerous projects, activities and deadlines simultaneously
  • Contributes to concept/tactical ideation and collaborates well with others to develop fully integrated creative concepts
  •  Designs to meet website functionality and stability across devices i.e. desktop, mobile, tablet
  • Designing engaging and responsive landing pages for campaigns
  • Designs award-winning advertising and online materials
  • Completes design projects according to project specifications and creative briefs
  • Obtains detailed estimates from a variety of vendors and prepares project estimates
  • Employs industry and design best practice through website design process (including UX, ADA, etc.)
  • Maintains and develops strong vendor relationships

Qualifications:

  • BFA/BA/BS degree with 2-5 years creative shop experience; healthcare/medical experience preferred
  • Exceptional web and digital design, art direction and creative direction skills
  • Thrives in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment and has a proven ability to manage multiple projects while meeting budget and deadline expectations
  • Highly efficient with the latest Adobe Creative Suite software, especially InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop
  • Experience in WordPress design; development skills a plus

Experience in User Experience (UX):

  • Thorough familiarity and competency with presentation software
  • Highly organized, with strong attention to detail
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills with an ability to communicate clearly and concisely, as well as demonstrated willingness to share ideas with individuals and teams at all levels

An insightful cover letter and healthcare or medical design samples will rise to the top of the inbox. Please send your resume, cover letter and design samples (via PDF or your online portfolio) to careers@dobies.com. EOE.

If you are passionate about designing and implementing healthcare market strategies across entities big and small, this position is for you. Dobies Health Marketing, a well-established, strategy-focused healthcare marketing and branding firm located at Crown Center in the heart of Hospital Hill, is seeking a Marketing & Client Services Manager to plan, manage and direct highly integrated marketing and brand strategies for hospitals and health systems (and other healthcare clients).

The Marketing & Client Services Manager reports to the Vice President of Client Services and collaborates with senior strategists to ensure data-driven, strategy-first implementation of market strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

Leads and Manages Select Client Relationships

As the primary point of contact for assigned clients, serve as a healthcare marketing subject matter expert and collaborate with the firm’s strategists to advise clients on effective marketing and positioning strategies and supporting tactical plans.

Supports Marketing and Positioning Strategies (MAPS)

Support the development and implement strategic marketing and positioning plans for healthcare organizations. Collect and incorporate consumer research and competitive intelligence from health data analyst and analyze market data to guide differentiation and positioning strategies for the client.

Manages Timely and On-Budget Execution of Marketing Projects

Ensure client objectives and goals are effectively incorporated into the firm’s content and creative development process. Implement client marketing plans on a daily basis, collaborating with internal teams to develop and assess creative concepts, implement campaigns, track campaign ROI, and measure/monitor client budgets, job profitability and defined key performance indicators.

Professional Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree required: related field, Marketing Communications preferred
  • 4-5 years of experience in healthcare marketing, communications and strategy required, preferably hospital experience
  • Or, 4-5 years of experience in a marketing firm or advertising agency serving healthcare/hospital clients
  • Strong critical thinking, strategic planning, complex problem-solving skills
  • Extensive knowledge of the strategic marketing planning process
  • Well-organized, detail-oriented and capable of producing professional results within tight deadlines
  • Willingness to work collaboratively in a team environment while taking initiative to lead client relationships
  • Confident and highly engaged with the fundamentals of health marketing, branding and advertising 

Special Skills Required

  • Strong critical thinking, strategic planning, complex problem-solving skills
  • Proven ability to develop and execute effective marketing strategies and tactical plans for hospitals and healthcare clients
  • Extensive knowledge of the strategic marketing planning process
  • Ability to review and analyze a variety of data to develop marketing and positioning recommendations
  • Well-organized, detail-oriented and capable of producing professional results within tight deadlines
  • Strong 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 health marketing, branding and advertising
  • Comfortable with public speaking opportunities and leading client discussions

Thoughtful cover letters with documented healthcare experience will rise to the top of the inbox. Please send to careers@dobies.com. EOE

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

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

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:

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.

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