Description
Company Overview:
We are Global IT Recruitment specialists that provide support to clients across the UK and Europe.
Location:
Shoreditch (Hybrid – 2 to 3 days per week onsite)
Duration:
12 months contract
The Challenge:
We're looking for an experienced Marketing Operations Project Manager to join the Strategy and Operations Team in London. In this role, you will collaborate with colleagues across regions and teams to project manage customer zero initiatives within the Global Marketing Organisation (GMO). You will help coordinate and manage key workstreams, streamline documentation and reporting, and promote best practices across the team. We are seeking a strong communicator with solid experience in global project management and stakeholder coordination. The Marketing Operations Project Manager will also support Media Operations on the EMEA Growth Marketing Team working closely with our media agencies. This exciting role requires someone who is excellent at creating structure from ambiguity and thrives in solving tough problems with creative solutions. If you are a focused and collaborative project management professional with an operational mindset, proactive approach, and not afraid of challenging the status quo, we'd love to hear from you!
What you’ll do:
Marketing Operations Project Manager (International)
- Collaborate closely with core teams across customer zero workstreams to understand and monitor status, progress, and identify potential blockers.
- Lead overall project management for GMO International’s customer zero efforts, including scheduling meetings, taking notes, and following up on actions.
- Manage regular reporting from all workstreams, highlighting project details, blockers, next steps; assist in consolidating monthly leadership reports and ad-hoc requests.
- Oversee/support product feedback process for priority workstreams by updating/consolidating information with Corporate/regional teams.
- Regularly update presentations, Teams channels; newsletters while supporting internal communications as relevant.
Media Planning & Operations (EMEA)
- Budget management/automation of operations: Assist in planning/monitoring regional media budgets.
- Experienced in developing/delivering robust processes/ways of working; managing risks/issues; reporting/evaluating effectiveness.
- Operational & strategic thinking: Tackle problems independently/quickly iterate solutions; document them clearly for wider teams.
- Create quarterly purchase orders working closely with finance/media agency.
- Work with regional & Corporate media teams/local media agency for reconciliation/reporting of budget spend.
- Support quarterly marketing forecasting for upper funnel/mid-funnel media campaigns.
- Help coordinate Growth Marketing T&E/team offsites.
- Troubleshoot/problem solve ad hoc as needed.
What you need to succeed:
- 5+ years of project management experience; a project management qualification e.g., PRINCE2 would be beneficial.
- Educated to university degree level or equivalent in engineering/business/technology or relevant field.
- Strong analytical skills; ability to use data for informed decisions/improving processes/practices.
- Fast learner/high attention to detail but able to operate quickly.
- Highly organized/autonomous worker capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously/leads projects end-to-end.
- A growth mindset/self-motivation/resilience for proactively tackling challenges.
- Excellent written/verbal communication skills in English (other EMEA languages beneficial).
- Experience working cross-functionally with various internal teams including Finance/Strategy/Product Teams.
- Proven track record with creative/digital marketing technologies such as Microsoft Power BI/Excel/SharePoint/PowerPoint/Teams & Slack is essential.