Senior Manager, Marketing Operations

Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid)

$111K/yr – $194K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Own enterprise demand planning, capacity management, and portfolio governance for Central Marketing, driving project management excellence and data-driven staffing decisions across Creative and Digital teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Demand Planning & Capacity Management: Establish and maintain enterprise demand planning and capacity management practices across Creative and Digital functions.
  • Develop forecasting and reporting models that provide visibility into demand, capacity, workload, utilization, throughput, backlog, and resource constraints.
  • Partner with Creative and Digital leadership to understand team capacity, delivery risks, and resource requirements.
  • Identify operational bottlenecks and recommend solutions that improve efficiency, scalability, and service delivery performance.
  • Evaluate business demand against available resources and communicate associated risks, tradeoffs, and service implications.
  • Provide leadership with fact-based insights that support staffing, outsourcing, resource planning, and investment decisions.
  • Support long-term workforce planning and organizational scalability.
  • Portfolio Governance & Business Impact: Lead portfolio planning and governance processes that align Central Marketing resources with business priorities.
  • Partner closely with Marketing Business Partners to transition approved business needs into executable programs and projects.
  • Ensure work entering Central Marketing is properly scoped, prioritized, and aligned with organizational objectives.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or a related field; an MBA or equivalent advanced degree is preferred.
  • 8+ years of experience in marketing operations, PMO leadership, portfolio management, creative operations, agency operations, or related operation disciplins.
  • Excellent leadership skills; 5+ years of people leadership experience preferred, with demonstrated success building and leading high-performing teams.
  • Proven experience managing enterprise portfolios, demand planning, capacity management, workflow governance, and operational reporting.
  • Demonstrated experience establishing project management standards, governance frameworks, and delivery methodologies. Strong analytical, financial, and business acumen with the ability to translate operational data into actionable business recommendations.
  • Ability to work through ambiguity and drive strategic operational effectiveness.
  • Strong skills in KPI development and tracking, performance reporting, and data analysis.
  • Excellent collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills, with experience working with cross-functional teams in a matrixed or federated organization model.
  • Ability to travel approximately 10% of time, both domestic and international

Preferred

  • Global industrial manufacturing experience and knowledge
  • Project management and six sigma/black belt training or certification
  • Experience influencing senior leaders and driving organizational change within matrixed or federated organizations.
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Graco

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Founded in 1926, Graco (NYSE:GGG) is a world leader in fluid handling systems and components. Graco Inc. supplies technology and expertise for the management of fluids in both industrial and commercial applications. It designs, manufactures and markets systems and equipment to move, measure, control, dispense and spray fluid materials. Graco maintains an aggressive strategy to design and develop new products and systems and distributes through a worldwide network of distributors and other channels. Graco is focused on expanding into new markets through product development and acquisitions.

Founded in 1926
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
4.7K employees (304 in marketing)
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Senior Manager, Marketing Operations

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