Marketing Planning, Prioritization, M&A Manager

Omaha, NE (Hybrid)

$82K/yr – $135K/yrManagerFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end M and A marketing integration, driving governance, playbooks, and cross-functional coordination to deliver a clean transition for customers and brands during acquisitions.

  • Marketing Infrastructure: Own the M and A integration playbook, dashboards, and executive status reporting to accelerate decision making.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Coordinate all marketing workstreams and partner with marketing leaders to ensure consistent execution across the transaction lifecycle.
  • Customer Experience: Ensure coordinated, customer-centric communications and branding during transition periods to protect experience and retention.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead and coordinate marketing integration activities associated with mergers and acquisitions to ensure a seamless transition for customers, employees, and stakeholders.
  • Serve as the overall marketing integration lead for acquisition-related initiatives and act as the primary point of contact between Marketing and the enterprise M&A program team.
  • Coordinate all marketing integration workstreams, ensuring alignment, accountability, and execution across marketing functions throughout the transaction lifecycle.
  • Facilitate weekly marketing integration meetings, maintain project plans, track milestones, manage risks and dependencies, and provide regular status updates to executive leadership and enterprise integration teams.
  • Own and maintain marketing integration governance, including project documentation, reporting, dashboards, action logs, decision tracking, and integration schedules utilizing project management tools such as Smartsheet.
  • Develop, maintain, and continuously improve a comprehensive M&A Marketing Integration Playbook that standardizes integration timelines, marketing workstreams, communication frameworks, brand transition processes, customer experience considerations, digital and collateral consolidation, governance and approval structures, reporting and escalation processes.
  • Serve as the coordinator and steward of the M&A Marketing Integration Playbook by partnering with functional marketing leaders who own and define their respective integration requirements and best practices.
  • Ensure all marketing disciplines contribute to, maintain, and continuously improve their portions of the playbook while driving consistency across the overall framework.
  • Create and continuously improve scalable frameworks that reduce integration complexity and improve speed-to-integration
  • Ensure acquired customers experience clear, coordinated, and customer-centric communications throughout transition periods
  • Coordinate marketing support plans for acquisition-related activity in FNBO growth markets
  • Portfolio Planning & Prioritization Practices - Improve marketing effectiveness through managing marketing planning and prioritization practices.
  • Manage planning and prioritization practices across marketing functions
  • Leverage best practices that improve planning consistency and reduce duplication of effort
  • Monitor and continuously improve marketing operational KPIs and success metrics.
  • Ensure measurable outcomes are central part of planning and prioritization practices that articulate choices and tradeoffs.
  • Help teams balance short-term execution needs with long-term strategic priorities
  • Support quarterly and annual planning processes by organizing inputs, tracking decisions, and maintaining accountability structures
  • Help teams critically evaluate priorities based on: Strategic alignment, Business impact, Customer impact, Capacity and resourcing, Risk and urgency
  • Provide centralized visibility into key marketing initiatives, dependencies, timelines, and resource demands

Requirements

  • Unrestricted work authorization and not require future sponsorship

Preferred

  • Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives or enterprise programs
  • Background in marketing operations, integrated marketing, project management, consulting, or business transformation
  • Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, or organizational integrations preferred
  • Strong understanding of marketing workflows across channels and disciplines
  • Experience with prioritization frameworks, workflow management, and operational reporting
  • Ability to influence without direct authority and navigate matrixed organizations
  • Strong communication and relationship-building skills across leadership levels

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
  • 401k, With Matching Contributions
  • Time Off Programs
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)/Dependent Care
  • Employee Banking
  • Growth Opportunities
  • Tuition Assistance
  • Short-Term/Long-Term Disability Insurance
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For more than 165 years, FNBO, a subsidiary of First National of Nebraska, has set the standard for outstanding customer service coupled with some of the most innovative financial products in the industry.When it opened in 1857, FNBO was a local bank that served only Omaha and the surrounding communities. Today, FNBO has locations in eight states and more than 6.6 million customers across the country. First National of Nebraska and its affiliates have nearly $30 billion in managed assets and 5,000 employee associates.We've come a long way in the last century and a half. As you browse through our site, we think you'll understand why we've been so successful – and why we're so excited about what the future holds for our customers and our organization.Check us out at www.fnbo.com.

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