Description:
The right candidate will have a record of accomplishment leading transformational efforts in high-performing marketing organizations or departments, with a focus on continuous improvement. The applicant should be a relentless advocate and problem solver for their teams – a leader who is passionate about clearing roadblocks, reducing complexity, solving stakeholder conflicts, creating value, and blowing performance targets out of the water.
What will you do?
- Support flawless delivery. Identify opportunities to accelerate and improve marketing processes, outputs, and digital marketing strategy through agile thinking
- Embed Agile delivery. Inspire the agile marketing team and stakeholders to embrace essential agile practices such as sprints, stand-ups, backlogs, etc. as well as agile values
- Project management, forecast capacity utilization, anticipate and navigate roadblocks. Drive or support definition of campaign goals, support the creation of client stories, building team backlogs, time-boxing deliverables, and supporting the team in campaign development and testing. Anticipate threats to team progress and engage stakeholders and leadership to address issues. Capture levels of effort, timelines, and resourcing and budgetary requirements of digital strategy portfolio initiatives, e.g., marketing technology POCs and implementations.
- Coach and manage. Coach team to optimize individual and group contributions and maximize campaign ROI. Manage 4 direct reports, support professional development and OKR’s.
What do you need to succeed?
- 5+ years’ experience in leading and coaching strong dynamic teams with proven results and deliverables
- 3+ years as part of a high-performance marketing organization (i.e. large consumer brand, cutting-edge advertising agency, leading financial services organization, or marketing/media practice of a top management consulting firm)
- Subject matter expert in agile practices (Scrum framework)
- High level of accountability
- Collaboration, leading through influence, relationship building across diverse groups and teams
- Able to gather and prioritize information for quick, informed decisions
- Direct and supervisory experience spanning ideation through development and execution
- Advocate for using capacity to optimize OKR and customer experience
- Strong negotiation skills and willingness to challenge and be challenged
- Experienced in backlog building, burndown tracking, etc.
- Adept at stakeholder engagement, political consensus-building, and conflict resolution; tireless in placing these skills at the service of her or his teams
- Superb communication skills, both verbal and written
- Proven success leading Agile transformations
- Strong analytic and creative thinker