Growth Services Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Iowa.

📋 Description

• Assist organizations across Iowa in recognizing growth prospects, addressing marketing and sales issues, and enhancing, expanding, and preserving revenue.

• Collaborate directly with leaders of small- to mid-sized businesses to comprehend market dynamics and objectives, identify underlying problems, and steer practical strategies and solutions.

• Direct client engagements that encompass marketing strategy, digital marketing, customer discovery, competitive analysis, market research, sales process optimization, positioning, value proposition formulation, and exploring new product or market possibilities.

• Cultivate client opportunities through professional networking, educational initiatives, referrals, existing client relationships, and collaboration with CIRAS colleagues.

• Implement marketing, sales, digital marketing, and growth strategies to drive business outcomes.

• Consult with clients to clarify underlying issues, suggest solutions, and foster alignment for actionable steps.

• Convert client requirements into project scopes, proposals, budgets, anticipated results, and execution expectations.

• Identify, select, and engage specialized CIRAS or external resources, incorporating their recommendations into client solutions.

• Present recommendations and proposals, articulate business value, address concerns, and facilitate client decision-making.

• Manage complex client engagements through implementation while overseeing stakeholders, strategies, scope, timelines, budgets, and outcomes.

• Establish and nurture relationships with clients, third-party resources, colleagues, and stakeholders.

• Organize and lead workshops, webinars, training sessions, and client discussions.

• Oversee project deliverables, communications, documentation, invoicing, administrative tasks, evaluations, and project closeout.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 5 years of relevant experience.

• 5–10 years of progressive experience in marketing, business development, consulting, or a related field, including leadership of initiatives with multiple stakeholders.

• Proficient understanding of marketing strategy, including segmentation and targeting, positioning and value propositions, customer and market research, marketing planning, lead generation, digital marketing, and the interplay between marketing and sales.

• Experience collaborating directly with business leaders to assess needs, differentiate core business challenges from proposed solutions, formulate recommendations, and translate strategies into actionable plans.

• Capability to lead projects and initiatives through others, including organizing tasks, engaging subject-matter experts, resolving challenges, maintaining accountability, and ensuring task completion.

• Proven track record in developing business opportunities through relationships, networking, referrals, educational engagements, or consultative selling.

• Preferred experience working with small- to mid-sized businesses and/or manufacturers.

• Must reside in Iowa prior to the first day of employment.

• Must have legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely without sponsorship.

• Submission of a Resume/Curriculum Vitae and a Letter of Application/Cover Letter is required for consideration.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.

• Retirement benefits, including both defined benefit and defined contribution plans.

• Generous vacation, holiday, sick time, and leave policies.

• Onsite childcare available (Ames, Iowa).

• Life insurance and long-term disability coverage.

• Flexible Spending Accounts.

• A variety of voluntary benefits and discounts.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Wellbeing program.

• WorkFlex options for flexibility in when, where, and how work is conducted for certain positions.