Marketing Specialist – Life Sciences
Cooley Open · verified Sep 24, 2026 At a glance
Mid-level General Marketing role at Cooley. 12 Locations · full-time · $68,640–$99,840 base.
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What you'll do
- Keep practice descriptions, brochures, and digital bios current so materials stay ready for use
- Clean CRM contact and relationship records to support accurate campaign segmentation
- Coordinate marketing kits and attendee materials for practice events and initiatives
- Pull recurring reports on activities, pitch volume, and pipeline status for business-unit leaders
- Enter matter credentials, track sponsorship commitments, and coordinate attorney profile updates
What you bring
- At least three years of applicable marketing or business development experience
- Life sciences industry experience plus a professional services or B2B marketing background
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, iManage, and other firm applications after orientation
- Availability for overtime when the role requires it
- Careful organization, clear communication, sound judgment, and discretion with confidential information
Who this fits
You’ll suit a collaborative, detail-focused role that supports practice leadership through both planning and hands-on marketing work. You’ll need to coordinate multiple activities, maintain consistent quality, and handle firm and client information confidentially. The listing places the position in the United States but does not provide a specific location. A bachelor’s degree is preferred.
From the employer
Cooley is seeking a Marketing Specialist – Life Sciences to join the Marketing and Client Development team.
Position summary: This role is part of the Business Unit Marketing Team, which acts as the strategic consultant to, and primary bridge between, practice group leadership and the broader Marketing & Client Development organization. This team translates commercial objectives and competitive insight into marketing and client development plans. They work across Marketing & Client Development to activate these plans, offering the appropriate level of strategic and tactical support tailored to the needs of each business unit. Specific duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
Position responsibilities:
- Collateral Maintenance: Provide ongoing updates and maintenance for practice descriptions, brochures, and digital bios to ensure "Always Ready" availability.
- CRM Data Hygiene: Maintain the integrity of practice-specific contact lists and relationship data within the CRM, ensuring accurate segmentation for campaign enablers.
- Logistical Material Support: Coordinate the assembly and distribution of standard marketing kits and attendee materials for practice-led events and initiatives.
- Standard Activity Reporting: Pull recurring reports from firm technologies to track practice group activities, pitch volume, and pipeline status for BU leadership.
- Matter Experience Entry: Support the practice by inputting matter details and credentials into the firm’s experience database.
- Sponsorship Tracking: Maintain the tracker for all BU-specific sponsorships, deadlines, and required deliverables to ensure all benefits are realized.
- Digital Profile Coordination: Liaise with attorneys to facilitate regular updates to partner biographies and external legal directory profiles.
- Administrative Project Support: Provide tactical support for large-scale BU projects, such as the data collection phase of the Chambers submission process.
- All other duties as assigned or required
Skills and experience:
Required:
- After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications
- Available to work overtime, as required
- 3+ years applicable experience in the field (e.g., marketing or business development)
- Prior professional services industry experience and/or B2B marketing experience
- Must have demonstrated industry experience in life sciences
Preferred:
- Bachelor’s degree
Competencies:
- Excellent attention to detail
- Approaches tasks through a lens of quality and consistency
- Approaches tasks through a digital first lens
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to organize, prioritize and coordinate multiple activities
- Works with team to set goals, drive projects, and achieve outcomes
- Strong judgment
- Team-player with collaborative spirit
- Unwavering ability to handle and maintain confidentiality regarding firm information, projects, client data
- High level of professionalism at all times
Cooley offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits package and is committed to fair and equitable employment practices. EOE.
The expected hourly pay range for this position with a work schedule of 40 hours per week is $33.00 - $48.00 ($68,640.00 - $99,840.00 annually). Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience and skillset of the candidate.
We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as 20 days of Paid Time Off (“PTO”) and 10 paid holidays each year. We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.
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