Project Manager, Online Marketing

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We are seeking a Project Manager, Online Marketing to fill a key position within our commercialization marketing team. Our team is responsible for ensuring a smooth and timely launch schedule for various campaigns and the ongoing continuous improvement in processes to drive efficiency and speed-to-market. The ideal candidate will bring strong communication, organizational, and technical skills to the role, as well as a passion for delivering on-time and accurate campaigns. The successful candidate will be a self-starter, able to work independently and collaborate across various team members within CRM/email, onsite/e-commerce, martech, web analytics, and other cross-functional teams to ensure effective delivery of marketing programs, with a focus on online marketing platforms

What you will do…

• Manage the process and project management tool specifically for an online marketing team, responsible for various offers, emails or landing page initiatives in order to achieve deadlines/launch dates.

• Run [daily/weekly] scrum meetings in order to identify blockers or risks; take follow-up action items related to unblocking dependencies or communicating risks and send clear notes to all relevant cross-functional teams

• Manage the intake and flow of marketing initiatives from backlog to completion/closed state. 

• Create work tickets and tracking codes as needed for marketing projects

• Schedule and facilitate meetings with stakeholders to initiate new projects, manage priorities of projects, set timeline expectations, manage asset handoff and general tracking of each marketing request

• Be accountable for driving longer-term  projects to on-time completion, or communicating changes to project timelines/scope/budget as appropriate

• Develop and maintain documentation related to any of the program initiatives.

• Fill in for certain online coordination tasks, as needed; Recommend improvements based on current process.

Who you are…

• 3+ years of project management experience, ideally in a product-based, or Direct-to-Consumer/e-commerce business

• Proficient working with project management tools like Jira/Workfront, and other tracking tools like Google Docs, Tableau, Excel, etc.

• Demonstrated experience and success managing multiple projects at once

• Ability to quickly dive into project requests and retract details to help answer questions

• Strong written, presentation, and oral communication skills to utilize in informal follow-up emails to project updates to more senior marketing leads

•  Ideal experience in marketing suites such as Adobe, Salesforce Marketing, Hubspot

• Team player comfortable with interacting with different functional areas across an organization

• Ability to multi-task and work efficiently in a dynamic, demanding environment

• Ability to adapt to a fluid and rapidly changing environment

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