Responsibilities

• Identifies, evaluates, and executes methods and procedures to improve effectiveness and drive efficiencies across an integrated Marketing and Communications organization.
• Owns key strategic initiatives that advance the mission and goals of the marketing and communications organization as well as cross-disciplinary initiatives that serve the growth needs.
• Works with the leadership to develop, implement, and track project portfolios, statuses and resource planning for delivering on strategic business objectives.
• Ensures department objectives are accomplished within prescribed time-frames and funding parameters.
• Leads a Marketing group by communication with and developing staff members, and building consensus for programs and goals that support a business, function or geographic area.
• Develops and articulates a short-term strategic vision for areas of responsibility.
• Supports the leadership in the development, communication, and execution of the department’s strategy and objectives; ensures strategic alignment across departmental projects.
• Provides analytics and logistics support, as necessary, to further the goals of marketing and communications; facilitates cross functional working groups to resolve Department or organization marketing and communications related challenges.
• Leads execution of department strategy; performs project planning and management for the department; consults with designated project leads on project management methods and updates.
• Leads process improvement for the department; identifies areas of opportunity to gain efficiency, improve quality or reduce cost; coordinates department responses to corporate surveys, data calls, studies, and requests.
• Sets the priorities and devises and leads complex projects, based on strategic intent and change-management considerations; delivers best practices for use across department and organization areas; utilizes metrics and data to anticipate and educate others on customer needs.
• Develops and maintains professional relationships with organization leadership; collaborates with peers on system-wide initiatives on behalf of the leadership.
• Builds and maintains productive inter/intra departmental and vendor work relationships to optimize operations; evaluates and implements new technologies, methods, processes and procedures to support short and long term department goals.
• Manages resources including operating budget, vendors, and facilities.
• Ensures stakeholder alignment, effective partnership, and role clarity within the department.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• 8-12 years of relevant experience and 7+ years of leadership / management experience, required.