Marketing Specialist

Business Unit:Global Marketing

Reporting To:Associate Director, APAC Marketing

Shift:India Standard (India)

About Russell Investments, Mumbai: 

Russell Investments is a leading outsourced financial partner and global investment solutions firm providing a wide range of investment capabilities to institutional investors, financial intermediaries, and individual investors around the world. Building on an 89-year legacy of continuous innovation to deliver exceptional value to clients, Russell Investments works every day to improve the financial security of its clients. The firm is “Top 12 Ranked Consultant (2009-2024)” in P&I survey 2024 with $906 billion in assets under advisement (as of December 31, 2024) and $331.9 billion in assets under management (as of March 31, 2025) for clients in 30 countries. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington in the United States, Russell Investments has offices around the world, including London, New York, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai – and has opened a new office in Mumbai, India in June 2023.

Joining the Mumbai office is an incredible opportunity to work closely with global stakeholders to support the technology and infrastructure that drives the investment and trading processes of a globally recognized asset management firm. Be part of the team based out of Goregaon (East) and contribute to the foundation and culture of the firm’s growing operations in India. The Mumbai office operates with varying shifts to accommodate time zones around the world.

For more information, please visit https://www.russellinvestments.com.

Job Description:

Position summary

As Marketing Specialist, you'll work closely with our Asia Pacific Marketing, Compliance, Product, Investment, and Client Service teams to ensure our digital and print materials are on time, accurate, and engaging. This role will suit a proven team player with very strong attention to detail, high level organisational skills, and excellent communication skills. The position reports into the Asia Pacific Marketing Team and will require a large overlap (5 hours minimum) with AEST working hours.

You'll play a key role in delivering our marketing strategy to:

• Build awareness of Russell Investments’ expertise, experience, and solutions.

• Generate interest and engagement to help create opportunities for new business.

• Support go-to-market (GTM) teams to address their needs and enhance their experience efficiently.

Required skills and qualifications

• 3 – 5 years of experience in a similar role in the banking and financial services industry.

• Proven experience working in a fast-paced environment to deliver collateral and deliverables to tight turnaround times.

• Strong project management skills to handle multiple priorities and competing deadlines across different time zones, business units and languages.

• High-level organisational skills to maintain due diligence and version control requirements, as well as to follow design and digital processes.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate with stakeholders at different levels.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with local, regional and global teams, and build collaborative working relationships that lead to efficient outcomes.

• Ability to demonstrate very strong attention to detail – ensure accuracy in the work being produced and follow pre-defined processes to repeatedly get the same high-quality outcomes.

• Creativity combined with a solid understanding of what it means to follow brand, layout and typography guidelines, including the ability to reshape and resize communications effectively.

• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint, and Excel with a high aptitude for learning new applications, related to translations, content management systems, AI tools, podcasts, etc.

• Experience with database and content management systems such as SharePoint and Seismic would be beneficial.

Key responsibilities

• Supporting the production of monthly/quarterly newsletters, and daily/weekly blogs.

• Managing monthly/quarterly/annual market commentary and product updates, ensuring data is accurate, sources have been verified, and brand guidelines maintained.

• Working independently or with minimal supervision to adapt global collateral and content for regional use, working closely with different teams.

• Supporting client servicing and sustainable investing collateral reviews and distribution to GTM teams.

• Managing subject matter expert reviews, and compliance/legal reviews, sourcing imagery, managing content reviews, organising translations (via vendors or AI), showing initiative to fill information gaps, 

• Being the conduit between the APAC Marketing team and the design, digital and compliance teams.

• Oversee, update and maintain multiple Microsoft planner boards, due diligence documents, content libraries and publishing calendars.

Core values

• Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication and collaboration skills with all levels of management.

• Strong organizational skills including the ability to adapt to shifting priorities and meet frequent deadlines.

• Demonstrated proactive approach to problem-solving with strong judgment and decision-making capability.

• Highly resourceful and collaborative team-player, with the ability to also be independently effective and exude initiative and a sense of urgency.

• Exemplifies our customer-focused, action-oriented, results-driven culture.

• Forward looking thinker, who actively seeks opportunities, has a desire for continuous learning, and proposes solutions.

• Ability to act with discretion and maintain complete confidentiality.

• Dedicated to the firm’s values of non-negotiable integrity, valuing our people, exceeding client expectations, and embracing intellectual curiosity and rigor.

• Be proactive in taking end-to-end responsibility for tasks performed – with minimal supervision, prompts or follow ups.

• Show initiative in solving problems, asking questions and integrating into the APAC team’s everyday workflow.

• Ability to take part in occasional regional or global meetings that may fall outside agreed working hours.