Marketing Operations & Program Manager

Bedford, MA (Remote)

$125K/yr – $180K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and standardize marketing planning and governance to align priorities and execution across teams.

  • Must-have: 7+ years in marketing operations, program management, or strategy in B2B
  • Standout: Experience leading cross-functional programs and driving adoption of standardized frameworks

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead and continuously improve marketing planning processes, including timelines, templates, and governance to ensure consistency and alignment.
  • Drive the evolution and adoption of integrated marketing frameworks and standardized ways of working, connecting business priorities to execution.
  • Develop and maintain tools, templates, and guidance that enable teams to plan and execute effectively with clarity and consistency.
  • Drive cross-functional projects and key initiatives (e.g., planning cycles, Marketing Day, marketing program budget review) ensuring alignment, coordination, and delivery.
  • Bring structure and transparency to priorities, workflows, and interdependencies across teams.
  • Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and improve how marketing operates; embed a test-and-learn, optimization mindset.
  • Define and embed marketing excellence standards and best practices that elevate the quality, consistency, and impact of marketing.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in marketing, business, communications or a related field
  • 7+ years of experience in marketing operations, program management, or marketing strategy related roles in B2B environments

Preferred

  • Demonstrated experience building and improving marketing planning processes, frameworks, or operating models
  • Experience developing scalable tools, templates, and playbooks that improve consistency and effectiveness
  • Experience identifying and driving process improvement, simplification, and operational efficiency
  • Ability to influence stakeholders and drive adoption without direct authority
  • Familiarity with integrated marketing, campaign planning, or go-to-market processes
  • Skilled in prioritization, project management, and stakeholder management
  • Preference given to candidates with life science industry experience

Benefits

  • health insurance
  • paid time off (PTO)
  • retirement contributions
  • other perquisites
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MilliporeSigma

Together with our colleagues, customers and stakeholders, we impact life and health with science. Before researchers can make scientific breakthroughs, they must have access to state-of-the-art tools, services and expertise to perform experiments and engineer new products. That’s where we come in. We offer one of the broadest portfolios in the industry for scientists, best-in-class products for pharmaceutical development and manufacturing, and a fully integrated service organization to support CDMO and contract testing across traditional and novel modalities. Our vision is a world where our innovative products, services and digital offerings help create solutions for people globally and a sustainable future for generations to come.The life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, operates as MilliporeSigma in the US and Canada. Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany is a global science and technology company with around 60,000 employees in more than 66 countries. Intended only for US/CA visitors.

Founded in 1951
Burlington, Massachusetts, USA
11K employees (286 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.1M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$358.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
72.6%
Direct
22.4%
Referral
3.8%
Social
0.2%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~10.5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
228 (2% of company)
Median Career Experience
16 years
Median Tenure
8.8 years

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