Marketing Career Opportunities
Smaller corporations may define a single marketing position to include everything from market research to after -sale service. In large firms one is apt to find entire departments with employees assigned to a wide variety of marketing functions, including strategy, plan development, brand management, integrated marketing communications, customer relationship management, new product development, advertising, sales promotions, web site development and management, and public relations. Changing markets require changes in marketing and numerous firms have found niches in providing specialized marketing functions such as advertising, market research, and public relations.
Numerous marketing executives in leading Fortune 500 companies owe their success to the marketing program at Lehigh University. Their careers may include the following:
- Retail management
- Sales management
- Marketing research
- Marketing strategy
- Database marketing
- E-commerce marketing
- Consumer Promotions and Special Events Marketing
- Brand/Product management
- Advertising and direct marketing
- Global marketing
- Purchasing and distribution management
- Services marketing
- Digital and Viral Marketing
Placement
Accenture
American ExpressAT&TBarnes & NobleBlack & DeckerBloomberg Financial ServicesCartierComedy CentralDDB WorldwideE! Entertainment ChannelExxonMobil CorporationFirst USA BankGeneral ElectricJohnson & JohnsonJP Morgan Chase Liz Claiborne, Inc.Mallinckrodt Baker, Inc.MasterCard InternationalMBNA American Bank N.A.Ogilvy & MatherPhiladelphia EaglesRenaissance Greeting CardsTangible MediaThane Distribution GroupThe Franklin MintTime Warner, Inc.U.S. NavyYoung & RubicamZenith Media Services
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