Account-Based Marketing Manager

TITLE:Account-Based Marketing Manager
LOCATION:Chicago, IL
REPORTS TO:SVP, Growth Marketing
DEPARTMENT:Growth Center of Excellence
TYPE:Full-time, Hybrid (In-office two to three days per week; travel required up to four times per year for team meetings and corporate events.)

CCS is unable to sponsor employment visas for this position, such as H-1B visas. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship. This may apply to individuals currently authorized under temporary student or practical training visas, who will require sponsorship from CCS to maintain work authorization long-term.

CCS Fundraising is a strategic fundraising firm that helps nonprofits achieve transformational change.

Since 1947, we have partnered with leading organizations across sectors to plan and deliver fundraising programs that advance their missions. Today, more than 600 CCS professionals across 18 offices support over 700 nonprofit organizations each year.

CCS is entering an exciting chapter of growth, with new investment in business intelligence, technology, and an enterprise-wide Growth Office. This role offers the opportunity to help shape how a highly respected, mission-driven firm brings modern growth capabilities to its regions and clients.

Turn enterprise and regional growth priorities into targeted marketing programs that create engagement, opportunities, and pipeline.

This is a high-impact growth enablement role at the center of CCS's regional and enterprise marketing and business development efforts. You will partner with regional leaders, business development, sellers, and the central Marketing team to translate agreed market, sector, account, and pipeline priorities into focused campaigns, seller-ready tools, and high-quality opportunities within. Each Account-Based Marketing Manager will support one of CCS’s four revenue regions and serve as the primary Growth COE liaison for that region.

You will not be expected to do it alone. You will bring together marketing, business intelligence, events, regional operations, sector and market subject-matter experts, and external production resources to help sellers create more conversations and win more business.

Your work will help CCS create incremental demand and position our regional salesforce for more effective efforts. Success will be visible in:

• More marketing-attributed high-quality appointments and opportunities secured with priority contacts at target organizations.
• Stronger regional adoption of centralized campaigns, insights, and sales tools.
• Clearer alignment between regional growth plans and central marketing investment.
• Repeatable campaigns that improve pipeline and contribute to regional revenue growth.

• Regional growth activation. Build trusted relationships with regional executives, sellers, and regional strategy, marketing, operations, and business development teams; understand agreed market, sector, account, and pipeline priorities and translate them into focused marketing activation. Partner with appropriate practitioners and subject-matter experts to ensure activation reflects CCS’s expertise and right to win.
• Annual Business Planning. Work with regional teams to inform annual marketing and business development plans, including market priorities, ROI-aligned resource allocation, and budgeting.
• Targeted demand generation. Design and guide 1:few account-based marketing and lead-nurture programs against agreed priority prospects, sectors, and markets, coordinating the appropriate intelligence, expertise, content, channels, and seller engagement.
• Sales enablement. Equip sellers with relevant intelligence, executive briefings,…