Client Marketing Manager

Reports to: COO Employment Type: Part-Time Location: Remote within the United States; East Coast preferred Travel: Expected travel to client content visits in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast Atlantic Experience: 5+ years of marketing experience; agency experience strongly preferred About Bellrae Marketing Bellrae Marketing is a strategy-led marketing agency helping growing businesses create clear direction, stronger marketing systems, and meaningful results. We work across social media, email marketing, SEO, paid media, content, and websites, serving clients across industries including home and design, aesthetics, destinations, and professional services. Our clients don't hire us to simply complete marketing tasks. They trust us to understand their businesses, think proactively, connect marketing activity to business goals, and help move their companies forward. Our team values strong communication, ownership, high-quality work, follow-through, and results. About the Role Bellrae Marketing is looking for an experienced, well-rounded marketer to own the day-to-day marketing leadership of a portfolio of client accounts. You’ll deeply understand each client’s business, translate strategy into priorities for the implementation team, review work through a strategic lens, monitor performance, and proactively identify what should happen next. This is not a traditional account management or project management role. You need enough hands-on marketing experience to evaluate social media, email, content, SEO, websites, campaigns, and reporting; give useful feedback; and confidently connect the work back to the client’s broader business goals. Because this person owns active client relationships, working hours should be distributed across Monday–Friday, with regular availability and responsiveness during Bellrae’s core business hours of 9:00 AM–5:00 PM ET. What You'll Do Serve as the primary day-to-day marketing partner for assigned clients, building strong relationships and a deep understanding of their businesses, goals, customers, and priorities Lead monthly client marketing meetings and ongoing strategic conversations Stay close to what’s happening inside each client’s business and recognize what should influence their marketing Translate strategy and recommendations into clear priorities for the implementation team and ensure they make their way into execution Review social media, email, content, websites, campaigns, and other deliverables with strong marketing judgment Provide thoughtful, actionable feedback that improves the work without creating unnecessary bottlenecks Review marketing performance, identify what the data is telling us, and confidently communicate insights and recommendations to clients Proactively identify opportunities, challenges, and potential problems before they become client concerns Collaborate with social media managers, SEO specialists, writers, paid media partners, and other implementation specialists Partner with Bellrae's Senior Marketing Strategist on complex challenges, significant strategic decisions, and shifts in direction Manage client communication, approvals, feedback, and active priorities so nothing falls through the cracks Participate in on-site content capture when appropriate for assigned clients You May Be a Great Fit If You have 5+ years of hands-on marketing experience You're ready to spend less of your time physically creating every deliverable and more of your time leading the marketing vision You've worked across multiple marketing channels rather than specializing exclusively in one area You have agency experience or experience managing multiple brands/accounts simultaneously You've personally created marketing deliverables earlier in your career and understand what strong execution looks like You love building relationships with clients You're confident communicating recommendations and explaining the "why" behind marketing decisions You're curious about your clients' businesses, not just their marketing tasks You can look at performance data and turn it into a useful observation or recommendation You're proactive and naturally notice what needs attention You take ownership and follow through without needing constant reminders You're comfortable making decisions while also knowing when something should be escalated to a senior strategist or specialist You're organized enough to manage multiple client relationships and priorities simultaneously You genuinely care about client outcomes and want to understand whether the marketing is working You are proficient with Slack, Basecamp, ClickUp, Canva, Google Suite This Role Probably Isn't for You If Your experience is primarily administrative account management or project management You prefer receiving tasks rather than identifying what needs to happen next You aren't comfortable reviewing or giving feedback on marketing work You need someone else to interpret performance data for you You want to specialize exclusively in one marketing channel You prefer execution without client interaction You struggle to manage competing priorities or close loops You believe your job ends once something has been assigned to someone else What Success Looks Like Clients trust you as a knowledgeable marketing partner and extension of their team You understand each client's business well enough to anticipate needs rather than waiting for direction Strategy consistently translates into strong, aligned execution The implementation team receives clear direction, context, and useful feedback You can confidently explain performance, what Bellrae recommends, and what should happen next Clients feel informed and supported without having to manage Bellrae, and problems rarely surprise them Pay: $30.00 - $35.00 per hour Benefits: Flexible schedule Application Question(s): How many years of agency experience do you have? Tell us about one client account you personally helped improve. What was happening, what did you notice, what did you recommend or change, and what happened as a result? Imagine a client says, “We’re posting consistently, but I don’t think social media is doing anything for us.” How would you respond, and what would you look at next? What marketing metrics do you typically look at when evaluating whether a client’s marketing is working, and how do you decide which metrics actually matter? Do you have experience with ClickUp, Slack, or Basecamp? Work Location: Hybrid remote in Virginia Beach, VA 23462