Marketing Business Development Manager

Blend is a premier AI services provider, committed to co-creating meaningful impact for its clients through the power of data science, AI, technology, and people. With a mission to fuel bold visions, Blend tackles significant challenges by seamlessly aligning human expertise with artificial intelligence. The company is dedicated to unlocking value and fostering innovation for its clients by harnessing world-class people and data-driven strategy. We believe that the power of people and AI can have a meaningful impact on your world, creating more fulfilling work and projects for our people and clients. As part of the Regional Issuer Marketing Services team, the Marketing Business Development Manager will be responsible for deepening client relationships through the sell-in and delivery of marketing services for clients, including merchants, cobrand partners, and payment ecosystem stakeholders. The Marketing Business Development Manager will be a seasoned individual contributor supporting a variety of clients at various stages of relationship and engagement development. The individual will work with external and internal teams to deliver B2C and B2B marketing programs and advisory services that are designed to grow our client’s business and drive incremental revenue. The Details: - Location: Remote (must be able to work across multiple US time zones) - Duration: Approximately 6 months with a strong likelihood of extension - Benefits: We do offer benefits to our full-time consultants, including Health, Vision, Dental, 401K plan, Life Insurance, Pretax Commuter Benefits, and an incredibly supportive team cheering you on! What you’ll do: - Partner with Account Executives and U. S. Client Marketing team to identify business development opportunities for marketing services; deliver strategic thought leadership and proposals including agency and internal SME collaboration, scoping projects, timelines, and deliverables. - Ingest and synthesize past projects, performance and insights to lead development of standardized marketing materials, including creation of content within PowerPoint.

- Apply data-driven approach to marketing recommendations leveraging data and industry research tools to capture/communicate marketing best practices and customer insights and present to clients. - Lead input to and kick-off with Marketing’s Delivery team for marketing projects, staying abreast of project progression, performance and any deviations or challenges, as well as participate in final project delivery and results/performance monitoring to demonstrate ROI and value-add. - Manage the day-to day prioritization of work across multiple projects, deliverables, and stakeholders. Programs may utilize Proprietary Consumer Marketing platforms/initiatives and sponsorship assets, as appropriate. - Actively manage performance of third-party partners that may supplement creative, strategy, or go-to market activities. - Partner with peers and leaders in other functional areas (analytics, technology, sales, product, media, legal, finance, marketing and others) and across regions to execute projects in ways that leverage the breadth and depth of client resources. - Demonstrate innovation and creativity on a day-to-day basis through effective problem solving, recommending new ideas and solutions to drive better client engagements. - Manage ad hoc requests from key stakeholders, e. g. , clients, account executives, senior leadership, finance, audit, etc. - Support budget forecasting and contract development and management.