Partners with units, faculty, and staff across the college to understand business goals, develop marketing strategies to help reach those goals, and ensure that marketing budgets and spending are optimized.

This Marketing Strategy Team is focused on non-extension departments and units, including teaching, research, and the Penn State Berkey Creamery. Marketing strategy specialists partner with faculty and staff across the college to understand business goals, develop marketing strategies to help reach those goals, and ensure that marketing budgets and spending are optimized. The team manages all internal stakeholder relationships and collaborates with internal marketing teams to develop integrated strategies.

Team Responsibilities

  • Develop and/or consult on goal-driven marketing strategies.
  • Manage the planning, implementation, and oversight of strategic marketing campaigns.
  • Build, manage, evaluate, and report on campaign performance.
  • Lead/guide cross-functional teams to create and maintain consumer-driven print and digital campaigns.
  • Lead market research and analysis.
  • Develop and maintain how-to resources, training, and best practices.

Team Skills

  • Market research
  • Audience and industry trends
  • Omnichannel marketing strategy
  • Value propositions, messaging, and creative insights
  • Working group facilitation
  • Project management
  • Client and stakeholder relationship management
  • Analysis and reporting

Marketing Strategy Team: Non-Extension

  • Assistant Director of Marketing Strategy
  • College Marketing Coordinator, Undergraduate Education
  • Marketing Strategy Specialist, Berkey Creamery and College units

Marketing Strategy Team: Extension

  • Assistant Director of Marketing Strategy

Agronomy and Natural Resources

Teams: Farm Safety, Field and Forage Crops, Forestry and Wildlife, Master Watershed Steward, Pesticide Education, Urban Forestry, Water Quality and Quantity; Center for Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training

  • Marketing Strategy Specialist
  • Team Marketing Coordinator
  • Team Marketing Coordinator

Animal Systems Unit and Other Teams

Teams: Dairy, Equine, Livestock, Poultry; Business, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development; Energy; Leadership and Community Vitality; New and Beginning Farmers

  • Marketing Strategy Specialist
  • Team Marketing Coordinator

Food, Families, and Communities

Teams: Family Well-being, Health and Wellness, Industrial Food Safety and Quality, Retail, Food Service, and Consumer Food Safety, Vector Borne Diseases, Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)

  • Marketing Strategy Specialist
  • Team Marketing Coordinator

Horticulture

Teams: Grape and Enology, Green Industry, Master Gardener, Mushroom, Tree Fruit, Vegetable, Small Fruit, and Pollinator

  • Marketing Strategy Specialist
  • Team Marketing Coordinator

Pennsylvania 4-H

Teams: All 4-H programs and teams, including Positive Youth Development, Science, Volunteer Management and Development

  • Marketing Strategy Specialist
  • Team Marketing Coordinator