Marketing Operations Leader
We are seeking an organized, forward‑looking Marketing Operations leader to play a crucial role in leading a team dedicated to driving efficiency through standardized and consistent organizational processes.
Responsibilities
- Marketing Operations:
- Define the Marketing Operations vision and strategy that enables intelligent decisions through precise analysis.
- Own the marketing operations roadmap, ensuring marketing tools and technology are evaluated, selected, implemented and customized to meet the needs of the marketing department, driving both increased efficiency and effectiveness.
- Identify areas for process improvement within marketing operations, streamline workflows, and implement best practices to increase efficiency and productivity.
- Serve as the US marketing owner for guidelines and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to ensure consistency, compliance, scalability, and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to identify and implement enhancements to marketing systems and tools, maximizing their capabilities.
- Vendor Management:
- Develop dashboards for key marketing vendors and provide actionable insights to stakeholders on relationship enhancements.
- Lead quarterly business reviews for key marketing vendor partners.
- Financial Management:
- Develop and ensure adherence to the annual budget.
- Partner across categories and finance to ensure marketing budgets are tracked and reported correctly.
- Serve as marketing SME in financial planning and application to marketing timelines.
- Leads Digital Marketing Content Factory Team:
- Drive adoption of internal agency process across business units, generating savings and efficiencies.
- Stay current in in-housing agency trends and pilot/scale new capabilities to realize additional efficiency and excellence.
- Marketing Excellence:
- Partner with Marketing leaders to ensure strong execution of brand messaging, brand strategy, and communications through multiple channels, driving consistency in process and communications and supporting key growth areas.
- Ensure optimal cross‑functional alignment, identify opportunities for increased collaboration across business units.
- Drive marketing capability learning across the US marketing organization.
- Team Management:
- Manage, build, and lead a strong team by coaching and developing existing members and closing talent gaps.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience including 5+ years of management experience.
- Strong leadership presence.
- Excellent planning, organizational and project management skills.
- Proven experience with change management and organizational transformation.
- Early adopter of technology; embraces AI.
- Demonstrated ability in communication, conflict resolution, judgment and managing complexity.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects and project management tools.
- Demonstrated learning agility.
- Confidently deals with ambiguity.
- Digital experience and/or in‑agency experience.
- Balance of strategic vision and tactical execution.
- Extremely analytical and strategic.
- Adept at managing multiple projects and deadlines.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package focusing on financial, physical, and mental well‑being.
- Multiple relocation packages.
- Two weeklong shutdowns (mid‑summer and year‑end) in the US.
- 8‑week parental leave.
- 9 Employee Resource Groups.
- Annual bonus offering.
- Flexible work arrangements.
- Up to 6% 401(k) matching.
Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
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