Senior Marketing Manager (Remote)

Location: 100% remote, hours PST or CST, must be local in the US
Job Type: Salaried contract through end of Q1 2024 with potential for renewal
Compensation Range: $130,000-$150,000
Our team is actively seeking a Senior Marketing Manager for our oil and energy client. The ideal candidate for this assignment is a hands-on marketing communications subject matter expert with creative strategy, agency management and stakeholder engagement best practices. They lead and influence cross-functional teams in the development, execution, and measurement of multi-media communications campaigns in collaboration with in-house and external agency partners.
Responsibilities:

• Serve as an initial / primary point of contact for all internal clients, partners and external agencies.
• Hold customers, partners, and agencies accountable and escalates issues when timing is not met.
• Gain alignment / drive decision-making across functions and organizational levels to drive progress.
• Creative Problem Solving: Proactively mitigate risk; when unprecedented challenges or issues arise, identify appropriate solutions, validate with the team, create transparency with stakeholders.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Engage stakeholders at all levels of the org to drive visibility and buy-in.
• Act as a marketing communications subject matter expert for the client, guiding them through all phases of campaign strategy and execution.
• Project-specific responsibilities / expectations:
  
  • Operate as an extension of the Corporate Affairs team, collaborating with internal customers and partners (i.e., brand, product, and legal) to support development and execution of integrated marketing campaigns.
  • Serve as an initial / primary point of contact for all internal clients, partners and external agencies.
  • Support clients in the development of business strategies that translate to actionable marketing objectives.
  • Act as a marketing communications subject matter expert for the client, guiding them through all phases of campaign strategy and execution.
  • Proactively work to deepen own understanding of customers' business and stakeholder landscape.
  • Gain alignment / drive decision-making across functions and organizational levels to drive progress.
  • Develop / manage integrated project plans with schedule / dependencies between teams clearly identified.
  • Make recommendations and ways-of-working to drive integration / collective success.
  • Proactively monitor project progress vs. plan; lead check-in meetings to align various workstreams.
  • Hold customers, partners, and agencies accountable and escalates issues when timing is not met.
  • Responsible for project management routines and tools (i.e., SharePoint, MS Teams, Adobe Workfront).
• Client Management: Partner with Account Director to nurture client relationships/drive service excellence.
• Scope Development: Lead development of SOWs that outline objectives, deliverables, budget, and timing.
• Make recommendations and ways-of-working to drive integration / collective success.
• Project Management: Own and manage individual projects as part of a program, or ad hoc needs.
• Thought leadership: Formulate points-of-view and recommendations founded in solid rationale.
• Team Integration: Collaborate and coordinate the integration of cross-functional teams and partner
• Managing Up: Use judgement to advise top management/provide ongoing updates on your work.
• Prioritization: Strategically evaluate/ prioritize work based on business priority and team capacity.
• Proactively monitor project progress vs. plan; lead check-in meetings to align various workstreams.
• Support clients in the development of business strategies that translate to actionable marketing objectives.
• Finance: Develop, monitor, and reconcile budgets to keep projects on time and budget.
• Long-term Planning: Collaborate with Account Director, Clients, and internal Strategy/Creative leads to proactively plan/develop forecasts for future work with projected timing and resources.
• Proactively work to deepen own understanding of customers' business and stakeholder landscape.
• Communication: Inform, influence, and negotiate; advanced presentation skills, MS PPT heavy user.
• Responsible for project management routines and tools (i.e., SharePoint, MS Teams, Adobe Workfront).
• Program Planning: Develop program plans that drive integrated strategy and creative execution.
• Develop / manage integrated project plans with schedule / dependencies between teams clearly identified.
• Operate as an extension of the Corporate Affairs team, collaborating with internal customers and partners (i.e., brand, product, and legal) to support development and execution of integrated marketing campaigns.
• Resourcing/Scheduling: Collaborate with functional leads and/or external agency partners to identify resource needs, develop integrated project schedules representing all workstreams.

Qualifications:

• Effective presenter comfortable leading meetings in a small or large setting.
• Leads by example, praises/recognizes team members and holds others accountable.
• Comfortable navigating uncertainty, reducing complexity and identifying 'fit-for-purpose' solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and engage appropriate team members as needed to drive accountability, provide subject matter expertise and inform collective recommendations.
• Proficient in developing integrated program plans, briefs, RASCI's, proposals (scope of work and budget), workback schedules and workflows in support of corporate communication deliverables.
• Experience in Energy Sector and/or HR Corporate Function.
• Collaboration and Leadership:
  
  • Leads by example, praises/recognizes team members and holds others accountable.
  • Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and engage appropriate team members as needed to drive accountability, provide subject matter expertise and inform collective recommendations.
  • Deftly navigates challenging situations, comfortable with difficult conversations.
  • Confident communicator with ability to persuade, influence and negotiate.
  • Effective presenter comfortable leading meetings in a small or large setting.
• Exposure to campaign measurement and optimization processes.
• Program / Project Management Acumen:
  
  • Proficient in developing integrated program plans, briefs, RASCI's, proposals (scope of work and budget), workback schedules and workflows in support of corporate communication deliverables.
  • Well-rounded executional experience spanning print/static media (PowerPoint, collateral, signage, print production), digital media (email, social, web), video production (film, animation, broadcast, digital/web use), photography (b-roll, asset capture, staged), and events (virtual and in-person).
  • Organized and detail oriented with ability to apply quality control practices to all processes.
  • Able to manage high-volume of tasks with strong sense of urgency.
• Hands-on experience managing creative campaign development, production fulfillment and deployment (i.e., traffic placements, rotations etc.) across paid, earned, owned and social media
• Marketing Communications Acumen:
  
  • Demonstrated experience managing full lifecycle marketing communications campaigns.
  • Familiarity with marcom strategy activities including market research, insights, KPIs, target audience identification / segmentation, communications / channel planning and creative briefs.
  • Hands-on experience managing creative campaign development, production fulfillment and deployment (i.e., traffic placements, rotations etc.) across paid, earned, owned and social media
  • Exposure to campaign measurement and optimization processes.
• Confident communicator with ability to persuade, influence and negotiate.
• Experience with project management software is required (familiarity with Workfront is a plus).
• Advanced Microsoft skills including PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Word and Excel.
• Demonstrated experience managing full lifecycle marketing communications campaigns.
• Proven experience translating business strategies into marketing objectives, communications strategy development, creative campaign fulfillment across all forms of media and campaign measurement.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Familiarity with marcom strategy activities including market research, insights, KPIs, target audience identification / segmentation, communications / channel planning and creative briefs.
• Well-rounded executional experience spanning print/static media (PowerPoint, collateral, signage, print production), digital media (email, social, web), video production (film, animation, broadcast, digital/web use), photography (b-roll, asset capture, staged), and events (virtual and in-person).
• Applies pragmatic thinking to proactively problem-solve, and influence positive outcomes.
• Deftly navigates challenging situations, comfortable with difficult conversations.
• Able to manage high-volume of tasks with strong sense of urgency.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in both advertising agency-side account management and client-side marketing management.
• Organized and detail oriented with ability to apply quality control practices to all processes.
• Excellent communication skills including writing, presentation development and oral presentation.
• Critical Thinking and Decision-making:
  
  • Applies pragmatic thinking to proactively problem-solve, and influence positive outcomes.
  • Comfortable navigating uncertainty, reducing complexity and identifying 'fit-for-purpose' solutions.
  • Demonstrates confidence in decision making to deliver quality service/work while mitigating risk.
• Demonstrates confidence in decision making to deliver quality service/work while mitigating risk.

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