Manager, Marketing Analytics & Partnerships - 196657

Responsibilities

• Coordinate cross-functional projects and strategic initiatives across University Relations, maintaining visibility into timelines, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, owners, and next steps.
• Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and action items for departmental and University-wide initiatives, including major institutional priorities and events.
• Drive consistent follow-through on active workstreams by coordinating stakeholders, tracking commitments, resolving routine blockers, and escalating risks, delays, or competing priorities to the Director and relevant leaders.
• Support the development and advancement of longer-term strategic initiatives, including space monetization and other projects identified by the Director of Strategy and Operations.
• Conduct research, gather internal and external inputs, analyze available data, and synthesize findings to support business cases, recommendations, implementation plans, and leadership decision-making.
• Identify areas of operational, financial, or process optimization and develop structured perspectives and recommendations for discussion with the Director of Strategy and Operations.
• Leverage marketing performance data and analytics to assess the impact of campaigns and activations, surface meaningful trends and performance uplifts, and identify opportunities to strengthen future marketing efforts.
• Work closely with leaders and teams across University Relations to translate strategic priorities into clear actions, owners, timelines, and measurable next steps.
• Maintain regular contact with the Director of Strategy and Operations on initiative progress, emerging needs, risks, decisions, and opportunities requiring leadership input.
• Serve as a connective point across stakeholders, helping ensure projects remain aligned, decisions are captured, and initiatives continue moving forward across functional boundaries.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• Experience in strategy, project management, operations, consulting, business analysis, marketing, higher education, or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, deadlines, and stakeholders simultaneously while maintaining strong follow-through.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Ability to develop and maintain project plans, timelines, trackers, business cases, operating models, documentation, and executive-ready status updates.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex information into clear findings, recommendations, and next steps.
• Demonstrated ability to proactively advance work, follow up on action items, identify what is needed next, and drive initiatives forward in a collaborative environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build effective working relationships across teams and levels of an organization.
• Ability to identify risks, dependencies, opportunities, and potential roadblocks and escalate or recommend actions appropriately.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving environment that requires movement between day-to-day execution and longer-term strategic thinking.

Benefits

• Medical, vision and dental insurance for preventive care or diagnostic and surgical procedures as well as an incentivized medical plan waiver option for those who choose not to participate (FT Employees).
• Income protection in the event an employee is not actively at work, due to illness (FT Employees).
• 403B investment opportunity to save toward financial security in retirement (PT and FT Employees).
• Programs and services that assist in balancing work and personal life (PT and FT Employees).
• Educational opportunities for the employee and eligible members of their family to pursue a degree at Pace or another higher education institution (PT and FT Employees).
• Opportunity for faculty and staff to participate in Pace’s award-winning health and wellness program, Pace Yourself to Wellness, which is designed to inspire employees to engage in healthy habits while optimizing health care resources (PT and FT Employees).
• Discount purchase plans for everything from entertainment, shopping and travel (PT and FT Employees).