Marketing Project Coordinator

About the Company

Marriner Marketing is a long-established, award-recognized agency focused on the food and beverage, hospitality, and tourism sectors. For close to 40 years, the team has helped brands grow through curiosity, bold thinking, collaborative teamwork, trust, and a giving culture.

Role Overview

The agency is looking for a detail-oriented and self-directed Marketing Project Coordinator to assist the Project Management team with planning, coordinating, and monitoring marketing and creative work from the initial kickoff stage through final delivery.

This position suits someone who performs well in a busy environment, can juggle several priorities at once, and is committed to keeping work moving smoothly and on schedule. The coordinator will partner with teams across Account Services, Creative, Digital, Media, and Production to keep timelines organized, resources aligned, and deliverables accurate and timely.

To do well in this role, you should bring strong organization, a sharp eye for detail, clear and professional communication, and the confidence to follow up consistently so projects stay on track.

Key Responsibilities

• Attend kickoff meetings and capture project needs, timelines, and immediate next steps.
• Create and update project schedules and task ownership in the agency’s project management platform.
• Track progress across projects and flag timing risks, workflow slowdowns, or staffing conflicts early.
• Check in with internal teams to help ensure commitments and deadlines are met.
• Raise scheduling concerns or project risks to senior project managers when needed.
• Assist project managers with integrated campaigns and creative assignments.
• Support production coordination, vendor communication, and estimating while building knowledge of agency operations.
• Learn production processes for print, direct mail, promotional products, and related workstreams.
• Coordinate workflow across Creative, Digital, Content, and Account Services teams.
• Review incoming requests against briefs to confirm completeness before they move forward.
• Route work through review, revision, approval, and production stages.
• Keep project files, schedules, and status information current and accurate.
• Help with resource planning and workload tracking across departments.
• Act as a central communication link between internal teams.
• Share project updates, upcoming deadlines, and action items in a clear and professional manner.
• Facilitate routine check-ins and status meetings as assigned.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree or an equivalent mix of education and professional experience.
• 1 to 3 years of experience in project coordination, marketing coordination, account coordination, administrative coordination, or a similar position.
• Strong ability to organize work and manage time effectively.
• Comfort handling many active projects and changing priorities at once.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and dependable follow-through.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and collaborative workplace tools.

Preferred Experience

• Background in an agency, marketing, advertising, creative, or digital environment.
• Exposure to project management platforms such as Workamajig.
• Familiarity with creative production, digital marketing, web development, or content-related workflows.

Success in This Role

• Project schedules and task assignments remain accurate and up to date.
• Multiple projects are handled at the same time with limited supervision.
• Strong relationships are built across departments.
• Potential scheduling issues are identified before they cause delays.
• Team efficiency improves through strong organization and consistent follow-through.
• Projects keep moving through effective coordination and accountability around deadlines.

Compensation

The position pays $45,000 to $60,000 per year.

Additional Information

This is a full-time, onsite role based in Columbia, MD.

Training will include gaining familiarity with print, direct mail, promotional product, and production workflows.