Marketing Program Manager - Corporate Marketing (Kansas City)

Kansas City, MO (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

Job Summary

Drive enterprise pursuit marketing programs and enablement across a matrix organization to boost speed, consistency and adoption.

  • Must-have: 8+ years in program management, project management, or marketing operations.
  • Standout: Proven ability to build scalable programs and drive cross-functional adoption.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development and execution of enterprise marketing programs that improve consistency, efficiency and effectiveness across pursuit and go-to-market activities.
  • Build and scale pursuit marketing enablement programs, including frameworks, templates, tools and best practices that support high-quality, repeatable execution.
  • Translate pursuit marketing experience into structured, usable resources that teams can adopt in real-world scenarios.
  • Drive adoption and utilization of marketing programs and enablement platforms by aligning stakeholders, simplifying workflows and reducing friction.
  • Partner with marketing, sales and business development leaders to identify gaps, inefficiencies and opportunities across the pursuit and marketing lifecycle.
  • Define program goals, success metrics and adoption targets; track performance and continuously refine programs based on insights and feedback.
  • Establish and maintain program roadmaps, governance models and workflows that support scalability and consistency.
  • Collaborate across brand, content, digital and go-to-market teams to align outputs with program objectives and business priorities.
  • Lead change management efforts tied to new processes, tools and ways of working—driving clarity, communication and sustained adoption.
  • Identify and implement process improvements that increase speed-to-market, content reuse and overall marketing effectiveness.
  • Develop and maintain playbooks, standards and documentation that elevate marketing and pursuit maturity across the organization.
  • Provide regular updates and actionable insights to stakeholders on program performance, adoption and impact.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, business, or a related field required.
  • 8 years of experience in program management, project management, or marketing operations.

Preferred

  • Experience working in a complex, matrix organization is strongly preferred.
  • Direct experience in pursuit marketing, proposal development or business development environments is strongly preferred.
  • Proven ability to build and scale programs, frameworks or enablement resources — not just execute within them is strongly preferred.
  • Experience driving adoption of new processes, tools or platforms across cross-functional teams is strongly preferred.
  • Strong understanding of how marketing supports sales, pursuits and pipeline growth is strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify inefficiencies and implement process improvements that drive measurable impact is strongly preferred.
  • Strong program and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple, concurrent initiative is strongly preferred.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to think strategically while executing tactically.
  • Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills.
  • Ability to adapt to change and support continuous improvement.
  • Experience working in a corporate marketing environment, preferred.
  • Familiarity with marketing processes, workflows and integrated campaign execution, preferred.
  • Experience supporting cross-functional or enterprise-level initiatives, preferred.
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