Description:
Hiring Marketing Strategy Manager
Job Purpose
Drive the progress of marketing projects throughout the organization from initiation through delivery – effectively coordinate resources, schedules and project deliverables all while ensuring alignment with cross-functional team and all relevant stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Play a key role in shaping projects, including project definitions and collation of business case – project scope, ownership, project sponsors, and alignment with other programmers.
- Develop and maintain realistic project plans, GANTT charts, and define RASCI matrix while identifying key stakeholders, deadlines, dependencies and budgets.
- Enable on-time and within-budget planning and execution of marketing initiatives
- Drive cross-functional alignment on marketing initiatives
- Align go-live for multi-channel campaigns
- Manage stakeholder expectations
- Establish and communicate project strategy, deliverables and priorities to cross –functional stakeholders (internal, external and global) to gain their support and required resources
- Oversee a variety of tasks with cross-functional teams
- Maintain continuous dialogue with stakeholders to keep them updated with overall project status and resource requirements
- Advance the project by identifying project blockers and enabling resolution, including approvals
- Proactively develop, implement, monitor and socialise new and/or existing processes to improve cross functional alignment, effectiveness and decision making
- Ensure best practices are followed in delivering the project
- Maintain an updated, live project tracker with access to all team members
Job Description:
- Be responsible for involving cross-functional team members or senior management at adequate times during the project management lifecycle
- Manage procurement of required resources
- Operate measures and controls to report project progress
- Think creatively to provide innovative solutions
- Post launch, clearly define post sustained activities and responsibilities
- Work flexibly to achieve results, taking a very hands-on approach, providing the impetus and focus for each project.
- Produce documentation, milestone reports for governance, and closure reports
- Report business benefits and project ROI