Marketing Project Manager

*** W2 Contract Only – No C2C – No 3rd Parties ***Position: Marketing Project Manager

Location: Remote, can be worked from anywhere within the United States

Contract Length: 5 months

Job Details:

Marketing Project Managers are responsible for ensuring program success, to our teams and internal and external stakeholders. As a Marketing Project Manager, you’ll be a vital part of the team responsible for the initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure of projects. This role will lead and empower your teams to be transparent and work collaboratively to meet their objectives.

The Marketing Project Manager is pivotal in leading initiatives, programs, and campaigns. We are seeking an individual who has a strong track record of excellent problem-solving skills with an eye towards meticulous planning and execution detail. Your social intelligence, enthusiasm, and ability to work with and across teams will be foundational to this critical function. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business priorities, a keen sense of ownership, drive, and resourcefulness to get things done. Lastly, flexibility and the ability to be two steps ahead of the game will be key in this role.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Cross-collaborate with key teams such as Product Management, Platform, Finance, Digital Experience, Revenue Marketing, and more.
• Work closely with the project sponsor and cross-functional teams to plan and develop scope, deliverables, required resources, work plan, budget, and timing for new initiatives.
• Strategize and build strategic project plans and play an active role in enhancing our project management and operations.
• Manage multiple projects from concept to completion
• Identify key requirements needed from cross-functional teams and potentially external vendors.
• Develop and manage the budget for projects and be accountable for delivering against established business goals/objectives.
• Work with stakeholders to identify risks and opportunities across a project’s multiple cross-functional workstreams.
• We can use our established processes to enhance team execution by setting workflows and identifying inefficiencies that can be improved.
• Prepare, maintain, and submit clear and concise activity/progress reports.
• Model and simulate improvements to existing business processes within the PMO, walking through 'what if' scenarios and dry runs to identify and resolve gaps before implementation
• Communicate well with coworkers and clients to ensure tight deadlines are always met.
• Multitask to quickly and seamlessly jump from one project to the next.
• Support Marketing PMO initiatives to refine and enhance overall process, governance, standards, and operating principles within Marketing.
• Understand core marketing principles and process - GTM strategy, campaign activation, etc.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or 7+ years of program management experience.
• Interest in managing multiple teams using creative problem-solving.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to be flexible, learn quickly, and be productive in a fast-paced environment with a positive attitude.
• Humility—willingness to ask questions when you don't know.
• Integrity—the courage to speak up when something doesn’t seem right for the business, our customers, or individuals.
• Experience being a "connector" across teams and managing projects and programs against timelines through to completion.
• Familiar with Project Management Software such as Wrike, Asana, and Smartsheet.