Executive Director, Marketing & Campaign Effectiveness

North Wales, PA (On-site)

$256K/yr – $403K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own the strategy, governance, and operating model for Marketing & Campaign Effectiveness across the full concept-to-customer flow, lead the CDL chapters, and drive cross-functional, AI-enabled transformation to improve end-to-end marketing performance.

  • Own enterprise Marketing Operations governance and standards
  • Translate future AI-enabled engagement models into practical CDL workflows

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the strategy, governance, and operating model for Marketing & Campaign Effectiveness across the full concept-to-customer flow, including strategy translation, campaign development, content creation, promotional review, activation, measurement, optimization, and learning.
  • Manage the CDL chapters and establish the leadership model, operating standards, performance routines, and practice expectations for campaign development in the U.S. market.
  • Drive consistency across CDL chapters by defining shared ways of working, role clarity, campaign development standards, prioritization routines, escalation paths, capacity expectations, and handoff requirements.
  • Enable transformation in the practice of campaign development by translating the future-state AI-enabled customer engagement marketing model into practical CDL workflows, behaviors, tools, standards, and adoption routines.
  • Establish the enterprise management system for Marketing Operations, including governance forums, decision rights, escalation pathways, operating routines, role clarity, handoff standards, and performance expectations across functions and CDL chapters.
  • Define how CDLs, customer engagement architects, content teams, promotional review, activation teams, global systems, and measurement partners work together from campaign strategy through deployment, optimization, and learning.
  • Set the roadmap for improving end-to-end marketing and campaign flow, with accountability for reducing fragmentation, improving speed, strengthening quality, increasing launch readiness, and driving consistency across brands, therapeutic areas, alliances, and global / local dependencies.
  • Own the integrated performance agenda for Marketing & Campaign Effectiveness, including KPIs for end-to-end cycle time, campaign throughput, CDL capacity and utilization, campaign development quality, content readiness, review efficiency, rework, handoff quality, activation readiness, adoption, and transformation impact.
  • Lead the operational realization of the future-state AI-enabled customer engagement marketing model within Marketing Operations, ensuring future-state capabilities translate into repeatable workflows, standards, governance, CDL ways of working, and measurable performance improvement.
  • Resolve cross-functional system bottlenecks that sit between functions, including planning-to-campaign handoffs, campaign-to-content handoffs, content-to-review readiness, review-to-activation flow, activation-to-measurement feedback, and performance-to-optimization loops.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • 12+ years of experience in marketing operations, commercial transformation, customer engagement, campaign development, content operations, or enterprise operating model leadership in a regulated environment.
  • Executive-level systems leadership across complex, multi-function, matrixed organizations, including leadership of chapter-based or distributed teams.
  • Proven ability to manage campaign development chapters or comparable execution teams across brands, therapeutic areas, launches, alliances, and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive consistency across a distributed practice area, including standards, routines, governance, role clarity, resource allocation, and performance expectations.
  • Proven ability to transform how campaign development work is practiced in a live business environment, moving teams from fragmented ways of working to scalable, consistent, AI-enabled workflows.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional operating model change across senior stakeholders, with both direct and indirect leadership accountability.
  • Deep understanding of campaign development, content creation, promotional review, activation, measurement, omnichannel orchestration, and marketing transformation.
  • Strong capability in operating model design, including governance, decision rights, role clarity, standards, escalation models, process architecture, performance management, capacity routines, and chapter ways of working.
  • Ability to translate fragmented workflows and performance signals into executive decisions, system interventions, resource allocation choices, investment priorities, and measurable improvement.

Benefits

  • medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
  • retirement benefits, including 401(k)
  • paid holidays
  • vacation
  • compassionate and sick days
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