Strategic Growth Manager

Company Overview:

BlueByrd Strategic Sales & Marketing, LLC, is a dynamic and rapidly growing strategic marketing agency based in Houston. We specialize in providing comprehensive and innovative marketing and communications strategies that drive measurable results for large and medium-sized companies across various industries, including but not limited to energy, life sciences, industrial, and technology. Our dedication to excellence and unparalleled client service has positioned us as a leader in the industry.

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Job Summary:

We are seeking a Strategic Growth Manager (Marketing Consultant) with 10+ years of marketing consulting experience, including 5-10 years in an agency setting, to join our team. The ideal candidate is a strategic, business-savvy problem-solver with a passion for driving growth. You will be responsible for building and nurturing client relationships, translating complex business challenges into targeted marketing and communication strategies, and overseeing their successful execution.

This role requires a high level of discernment and strong business acumen. You should be able to guide clients and internal teams with confidence and humility, balancing high-level strategy with hands-on implementation. Your main goal is to help clients grow revenue by aligning sales and marketing teams, improving their marketing efforts, and delivering measurable business results.

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Key Responsibilities:

• Client Advocacy: Act as the client’s voice within BlueByrd, advocating for their perspective and providing clear, relevant feedback to ensure all deliverables align with strategy and branding—while offering guidance on branding, positioning, communications, and broader marketing initiatives. Take ownership of driving client business goals and objectives, clearly communicating them to the team, and ensuring they remain top of mind throughout project execution. 
•  Client Management: Develop and maintain strong, long-term relationships with existing clients. Serve as the primary point of contact for clients and act as their trusted advisor, ensuring clients have the information, context, and insights they need to make informed decisions throughout their journey with BlueByrd. 
• Workshop Leadership: Serve as project lead for workshop engagements, holding ultimate accountability for market research and the delivery and presentation of playbooks and other key outputs—ensuring all deliverables are completed on time, accurate, and actionable.
• Strategic Planning & Agency Support: Partner with clients to understand their business objectives, challenges, and market dynamics, then help shape comprehensive marketing and communications plans that drive results. Work alongside project managers to ensure these strategies are executed effectively, measured against goals, and refined as needed for maximum impact.
• Marketing Strategy Development & Oversight: Create and implement marketing strategies and plans that align with client objectives and budgets. Provide direction on marketing efforts and tools to ensure strategies are both actionable and results-driven.
• Account Growth: Identify strategic opportunities to expand our services within existing client accounts. Work closely with the sales and marketing teams to upsell and cross-sell relevant offerings, ultimately contributing to the company's revenue growth.
• Problem Solving: Approach complex business and marketing challenges with a solutions-oriented mindset, leveraging data, market insights, and cross-functional expertise to deliver innovative recommendations that will deliver high-impact outcomes.
• Budget & Financial Oversight: Develop and manage annual account budgets or large scopes of work with precision, including creating accurate estimates, tracking expenses, and ensuring invoices align with agreed scopes.
• Market Research: Stay up-to-date with industry trends, competitive landscape, and best practices. Leverage this knowledge to proactively identify new opportunities and propose innovative strategies to clients.
• Performance Measurement: Establish metrics and KPIs for all initiatives to evaluate the success of marketing campaigns and communications initiatives. Provide clients with regular reports and insights on their campaigns' performance.
• Team Enablement: Work closely with and empower cross-functional teams, including sales, marketing, creative, and data analytics, by providing all pertinent information, strategic context, and client insights up front, allowing them to deliver cohesive and effective client solutions.
•  Strategic Collaboration: Leverage team expertise to proactively identify opportunities, anticipate challenges, and ensure all efforts support the client’s broader business and marketing objectives.
• Project Management: Oversee the execution of marketing campaigns and communication initiatives while coordinating with numerous vendors and our internal team. Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and meet or exceed client expectations.

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Requirements:

• Experience: 10+ years of marketing consulting experience, including 5–10 years in an agency or consulting firm, successfully leading multiple clients and projects in fast-paced environments.
• Strategic Mindset: Proven ability to think critically and analytically, with the skill to develop high-level marketing and communication strategies aligned with business goals that deliver measurable results. This individual will remain tactic agnostic, focusing solely on client goals and objectives and doing whatever it takes to make an impact in revenue growth. 
• Business Acumen: Strong understanding of business strategy, revenue drivers, and market positioning.
• Discernment: Ability to assess situations quickly, make sound judgments, and provide confident, well-informed recommendations.
• Client Service Excellence: A passion for delivering unparalleled client service and consistently exceeding expectations.
• Ownership Mindset: Fully owns assigned client accounts, relationships, strategic plans, and execution—ensuring accountability, follow-through, and high-quality delivery at every stage.
• Communication Skills: Exceptional written and verbal communication, with the ability to clearly and persuasively present ideas, solutions, and proposals.
• Curiosity & Continuous Learning: Naturally inquisitive, asks thoughtful, informed questions, and consistently seeks to expand knowledge of client industries, challenges, and opportunities.
• Industry Knowledge: Familiarity with the energy, life sciences, industrial, and/or technology industries, with a deep understanding of their unique challenges and opportunities.
• Growth Mindset: Passion for driving growth and maintaining alignment between business goals, strategy, and marketing execution, with a bias to action.
• Technical Skills: Expertise in leveraging marketing technology to drive measurable results and improve ROI. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in evaluating, implementing, and optimizing platforms like HubSpot, Mailchimp, and Sprout Social. A strong command of analytics is essential to inform data-driven strategies and recommend effective tactics that directly address client needs and generate clear business impact.
• Collaborative: The ability to work effectively with both internal and external teams to achieve shared goals. Being open to new ideas and adopting a question-first approach in collaborative, team environments. 
• Results-Driven Approach: Committed to achieving measurable results and driving continuous improvement, with a strong working knowledge of analytics and reporting practices, policies, and tools. Able to provide clients with clear, regular reporting on marketing activities to demonstrate both progress and the effectiveness of the strategy.

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Must exhibit BlueByrd’s core values: 

• Do the right thing, always, and with no exceptions
• Hustle for our clients, partners, and the company
• Relentlessly drive revenue growth
• Make smart decisions based on the information you have