Marketing Operations Specialist

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$55K/yr – $65K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own cross-functional marketing operations by governing budgets, processes, and supplier interactions to ensure efficient project delivery and alignment with strategic priorities.

  • Budget governance across pillars: tracking, reporting, and optimization opportunities.
  • Operational workflow and agile-planning enablement: standardized processes and cross-team collaboration.
  • Supplier and project coordination: onboarding, contracts, performance feedback, and KPI monitoring.

Job Description

  • Collaborate with the leads across Commercial, Attendee and Content & Audience to track and manage budgets across marketing pillars, ensuring accurate reporting and alignment with strategic priorities.
  • Contribute to the strategy cycle planning process by coordinating timelines, deliverables, and cross-team collaboration to align with organizational goals.
  • Provide regular updates on budget tracking and highlight opportunities for optimization.
  • Work with the marketing team to safeguard marketing processes by ensuring adherence to established workflows and frameworks.
  • Support the embedding of agile ways of working by contributing to iterative planning, adaptability, and collaboration across teams.
  • Identify and recommend process improvements to enhance efficiency and enable teams to deliver high-quality outputs.
  • Coordinate supplier management tasks, including onboarding, contract management, and adherence to procurement processes, in collaboration with the Marketing Operations Manager.
  • Act as a point of contact between Group Marketing Procurement, suppliers, and marketing teams, ensuring alignment with project needs and timelines.
  • Monitor supplier performance and provide feedback or recommendations to the Marketing Operations Manager for further action.
  • Work with digital operations and operations teams to enable key projects, including registration briefing and management, app setup, and signage coordination.
  • Foundational experience in marketing operations or a similar role, with knowledge of budget tracking, process enablement, and cross-team coordination.
  • Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities effectively.
  • Familiarity with supplier management processes, including onboarding and contract management.
  • A data-driven mindset with the ability to track and report on operational performance metrics.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with experience working closely with cross-functional teams.
  • Adaptability and comfort working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with shifting priorities.
  • A proactive and detail-oriented approach to contributing to team success.
  • - Freedom & flexibility: colleagues rate us highly for the flexibility and trust they receive, and we support a range of working patterns
  • - Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
  • - Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too
  • - Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves
  • - Time out: 15 days PTO, rising to 20 after three years and 25 after six years, plus 10 national holidays, a birthday leave day, and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
  • - Competitive benefits, including a 401k match, parental leave, and an ESPP offering company shares at a minimum 15% discount
  • - Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, free access to a wellness app, and more
  • - Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programs
  • - As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world

Informa Markets

Informa Markets creates platforms for industries and specialist markets to trade, innovate and grow. Our portfolio is comprised of more than 450 international B2B events and brands in markets including Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals, Infrastructure, Construction & Real Estate, Fashion & Apparel, Hospitality, Food & Beverage, and Health & Nutrition, among others. We provide customers and partners around the globe with opportunities to engage, experience and do business through face-to-face exhibitions, specialist digital content and actionable data solutions. As the world’s leading exhibitions organiser, we bring a diverse range of specialist markets to life, unlocking opportunities and helping them to thrive 365 days of the year.Informa Markets is a division of Informa PLC.

Founded in 2006
London, England, GBR
3.2K employees (811 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
83.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
46.2%
Direct
41.1%
Referral
9.6%
Social
1.9%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~3.2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
685 (22% of company)
Median Career Experience
40 years
Median Tenure
16.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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