Senior Marketing Specialist

Merchants Bank is seeking a versatile and detail-oriented Senior Marketing Specialist to join our growing marketing team. This multi-skilled role combines digital marketing, creative design, event coordination, and campaign analytics to support high-impact campaigns, sponsorship activations, and day-to-day marketing needs. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, has a strong creative eye, and is comfortable balancing multiple priorities—from designing a social post to coordinating a game-day event to analyzing campaign performance.

This role provides critical team support, including coverage during heavy workloads and vacations, and requires flexibility for occasional after-hours and weekend events, including travel for athletic sponsorship activations and mascot appearances.

As our Senior Marketing Specialist, you should be able to do the following confidently and independently...

Digital Marketing & Creative Production

• Design and produce marketing collateral, graphics, and digital content using Adobe Creative Suite and Canva.
• Manage social media channels, including content creation, scheduling (Sprout Social), monitoring, and reporting.
• Build and deploy email marketing campaigns through Mailchimp.
• Update and maintain multiple company websites (WordPress).
• Edit and produce video content for internal office displays and external communication platforms.
• Ensure all content aligns with brand standards and compliance requirements.

Event Planning & Sponsorship Activation

• Plan, coordinate, and execute athletic sponsorship activations with Indiana University and Butler University.
• Manage corporate mascot appearances, including scheduling, logistics, and on-site coordination.
• Attend and support after-hours and weekend events as needed, ensuring smooth execution and brand representation.
• Coordinate with external partners and vendors for event-related logistics.

Analytics & Reporting

• Track, analyze, and report on campaign performance across digital channels (social media, email, website, events).
• Create dashboards and reports highlighting key performance metrics to guide marketing strategy.
• Use data insights to recommend improvements and optimize future campaigns.

Team Support & Collaboration

• Provide coverage and project support during peak times or when teammates are out of office.
• Collaborate closely with marketing team members to deliver integrated campaigns.
• Maintain organization of shared marketing resources, including SharePoint sites and digital asset libraries.

Qualifications...

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Public Relations, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 3+ years of experience in marketing, communications, digital content, or event coordination.
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro).
• Experience with social media management platforms (Sprout Social preferred).
• Strong knowledge of WordPress for website content management.
• Experience in data analytics and creating campaign performance reports.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to travel and work occasional evenings/weekends for event coverage.

Strongly Preferred:

• Experience with SharePoint for managing shared files and resources.
• Prior experience in banking, financial services, or other regulated industries is strongly preferred.
• Advanced video editing and digital signage management experience.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.

What we are looking for...

• A utility teammate who can step into multiple roles and keep projects moving forward.
• A creative problem solver who thrives on variety and juggling different tasks.
• A data-driven marketer who can translate metrics into actionable insights.
• A brand ambassador who is comfortable representing Merchants Bank at events and sponsorship activations.
• A team player with a “jump in and help” mindset.

About Merchants

Ranked as a top performing U.S. public bank by S&P Global Market Intelligence, Merchants Bancorp is a diversified bank holding company headquartered in Carmel, Indiana operating multiple segments, including Multi-family Mortgage Banking that offers multi-family housing and healthcare facility financing and servicing; Mortgage Warehousing that offers mortgage warehouse financing; and Banking that offers retail and correspondent residential mortgage banking, agricultural lending, and traditional community banking. Merchants Bancorp, with $18.8 billion in assets and $11.9 billion in deposits as of December 31, 2024, conducts its business primarily through its direct and indirect subsidiaries, Merchants Bank of Indiana, Merchants Capital Corp., Merchants Capital Investments, LLC, Merchants Capital Servicing, LLC, Merchants Asset Management, LLC, and Merchants Mortgage, a division of Merchants Bank of Indiana.

Merchants Bank and Merchants Capital have recently been honored with the 2025 USA Today Top Workplaces recognition, ranking 22nd nationally within the 500-999 employee category. This is the second year that Merchants has been recognized with this award. These accolades build on our strong history of workplace recognition, including being named a Best Place to Work in Indiana for seven consecutive years (2016–2022). For more information read the entire article here.