Senior Project Manager for Creative and Marketing Activation Operations

When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing...

Reporting to the Director of Marketing Planning and Governance (MPG), this role will be responsible for the strategic planning and execution of key programs and deliverables for the Marketing Activation and Creative (MAC) team. You will work across the entire Verizon enterprise and with external agencies to coordinate the timing and delivery of MAC team executive leadership presentations, status reports, and ad hoc requests.

The Manager will be responsible for developing and managing timelines, gathering content from cross-functional leads, and synthesizing information for executive audiences – understanding the nuances of distilling content for leadership is critical. This role will plan for both short-term and long-term deliverables while always being adaptable to ever-changing business needs and priorities.

This individual will help design and optimize processes and ensure cross-organizational adherence. The integration of technology platforms such as Workfront will be key in helping to develop processes for this newly-formed team to enable CMO and MAC to optimize workflow, improve ways of working, and speed to market.

• Leading the planning and project management for MAC and the broader CMO team presentations and deliverables.
• Owning, managing, and ensuring on-time delivery of agendas, presentations, and marketing materials that require stakeholder inputs from Director, VP and SVP levels.
• Developing and continually optimizing workflow processes across the team to drive greater efficiency and increased speed to market.
• Assisting in recurring senior executive updates across various initiatives
• Partnering with external agencies to align on key initiatives and project management.
• Ensuring projects are on time, within budget, and are evaluated for ROI.
• Making trade-offs to deliver effective solutions to business partners in a timely fashion.
• Utilizing creative thinking around technology trends and their effectiveness driving organizational change.
• Assisting in the implementation and adoption of Workfront across CMO and BUs.

Where you'll be working...

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

This role may be considered as part of the Department of Defense SkillBridge Program.

What we’re looking for...

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience.
• Six or more years of experience in Project Management, Program Management, or Marketing Operations.
• Experience managing communications and status reporting across multiple organizational levels and teams including C-suite.
• Willingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Passion for marketing and experience with agile ways of working and process improvements.
• Ability to leverage technology (ad/martech) to drive transformation.
• Experience in prioritizing and launching technology solutions on-time by partnering with cross-functional teams to achieve business goals.
• Experience in managing (external) Agency partnerships.
• Ability to give keen attention to detail and high degree of responsiveness.
• Ability to manage numerous projects concurrently with multiple stakeholders across a large enterprise.
• Experience of working with leadership both client-side and with external marketing agencies, exhibiting strong collaboration and project management skills.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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