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MARKETING PROGRAM MANAGER

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 Job Snapshot
Location : 
Schaumburg, IL (map it!Map it!)
Employee Type : 
Contractor
Industry : 
Wireless
Telecommunications
Manages Others : 
Not Specified
Job Type : 
General Business
Experience : 
At least 8 year(s)
Post Date : 
4/25/2013
Contact Information
Contact :
Olivia Enriquez
Ref ID :
oeATR82974
 Description

We are seeking a candidate for a MARKETING PROGRAM MANAGER position.

Scope of Responsibilities/Expectations

Throughout the year, the Marketing Digital Strategy and Operations Team runs multiple programs in parallel to maintain our leadership position in our market. Strong program management and facilitation across our customer groups is key to our overall success.

Specifically, this position is responsible for:

• Delivering business value across multiple projects that combine into a program executed against a specific platform or around a business process using industry best practices for project management

• Driving overall schedule and budget alignment to program commitments

• Coordinating interdependencies across project related activities

• Defining and managing a program plan/roadmap

• Overseeing Project Managers that are driving project to baselined schedules and approved budgets

• Initiating/kicking off individual projects with the Project Manager

• Driving customer requirements and project scope definition

• Driving new request quoting process

• Providing appropriate scope oversight and leveraging change controls on the project

• Instilling a change management philosophy to project deployment and adoption

• Recognizing potential risks and developing and tracking mitigation plans across projects

• Owning the relationship between internal and external development teams and internal business partners/customers

• Owning project vendor relationship related to the execution of the project

• Overseeing consistent, thorough and concise project communication appropriately targeted to audiences from the project team to the Senior Leadership Team

• Delivering Program level status and support regular Senior Leadership Team reviews

• Supporting a continuous improvement mindset within the team

 

 Requirements

The ideal candidate will possess:

Required Skills and Experience

• 8+ years project management including multiple successful execution of large projects.

• Ability to understand and navigate complex business organizations that are involved in project execution.

• Proven ability to manage complex projects and deliver results in a fast-paced, deadline oriented environment.

• Demonstrate strong decision-making skills and good judgment in the face of ambiguous obligations and requirements

• Specific experience with marketing/web based projects or marketing lead management and process improvements

• Experience with Change Management methodologies such as LaMarsh

• Experience mentoring and guiding Project Managers

• Experience with roadmap management and program governance

• Strong facilitation skills

• Demonstrate exceptional organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects and works streams simultaneously

• Exceptional verbal and written communications skills.

• Experience with MS Project or other comparable tools

• Academic background in marketing, business, technology or related field. Undergraduate college degree or equivalent experience minimum, MBA a plus.

• PMI certification a plus

Behavioral Characteristics

• Strong team player with the ability to infuse positive energy into a team and facilitate team accomplishments and execution

• Project management excellence, attention to detail; ability to keep commitments

• Strategic thinker who proactively identifies and resolves issues

• Relationship builder who can establish partnerships with internal and external team and vendors

• Comfortable interacting with different levels of management and leading cross-functional, cross-regional teams

• Strong leader with the ability to transition effortlessly from program planner to hands-on executor as situations demand it

• Adaptable to changing business needs

• Ability to synthesize complex requirements into simple business practices

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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