Project Manager of Creative and Marketing Activation Planning and Governance

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What you’ll be doing...

Reporting to the Director of Marketing Planning and Governance (MPG), this role will assist in the project management of presentations and deliverables across the Marketing Activation and Creative (MAC) and CMO team, while owning process development and adherence for Workfront.

You will play a key role in developing and governing Workfront processes for this newly-created team within MAC. As the Workfront lead, you will become a subject matter expert in how to plan, track, and manage marketing presentations and initiatives while optimizing workflow, improving ways of working, and speed to market. This role will provide leadership with updates and results on how these new processes within Workfront are performing across many stakeholders.

The Consultant will also support the creation and execution of initiatives and deliverables for key MAC annual, quarterly, monthly and weekly meeting deliverables such as agendas and content for executive creative and operational reviews. You will work with a Manager and Director to ensure flawless project management including timeline development and adherence, content quality and accuracy, proofreading, and stakeholder alignment.

This is a perfect opportunity for project managers that are interested in utilizing technology to create and optimize processes that drive measurable business efficiencies.

• Leading the process development, implementation, and adherence of Workfront processes across the MAC team.
• Recommending process improvements across the team to drive greater efficiency and increased speed to market.
• Providing creative thinking around technology trends and their effectiveness driving organizational change.
• Assisting in strategic planning and project management for MAC and the broader CMO team presentations and deliverables.
• Partnering with business unit teams and multiple lines of business to gather input for presentations and deliverables.
• Tracking all relative deliverables/deadlines while holding stakeholders accountable and on track to hit dates.
• Ensuring projects are on time, within budget, and are evaluated for ROI

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 two years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in project management, program management, or marketing operations.
• Willingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time.

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

• Experience in Workfront.
• Experience in managing communications and status reporting across multiple organizational levels and teams.
• Knowledge of 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.
• Good attention to detail and high degree of responsiveness.
• Strong collaboration and project management skills across MAC, Business Unit Marketing teams, Customer Experience, CMO, GTS, Finance, and external agency partners.

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.

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