Sr Project Manager Marketing

Bloomington, IL (Hybrid)

$94K/yr – $143K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the cross functional marketing execution engine and keep initiatives aligned with business priorities, budgets, and timelines across marketing, sales, finance, and technology.

  • Define intake, prioritization, and planning to keep campaigns on time and within scope.
  • Coordinate approvals, dependencies, and capacity across multiple teams to hit milestones.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • This position is responsible for driving the successful planning, coordination, and execution of marketing initiatives across the organization.
  • Serves as the operational hub of the marketing team, ensuring projects move efficiently from intake through completion while maintaining alignment with business priorities, timelines, budgets, and resource availability.
  • Oversees marketing workflows, project governance, and process improvement initiatives, while supporting cross-functional collaboration between marketing, sales, business technology, finance, and business unit stakeholders.
  • Plays a critical part in enabling marketing effectiveness by providing visibility into project status, team capacity, and operational performance.
  • Leads the intake, prioritization, planning, and execution of marketing projects and campaigns, ensuring initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with business and marketing objectives.
  • Manages multiple complex, cross-functional initiatives simultaneously, balancing competing priorities, dependencies, timelines, and resource constraints while maintaining focus on successful execution of strategic business objectives.
  • Owns and administers marketing work management processes and tools, driving adoption, governance, and continuous process improvement across the marketing function
  • Leads continuous improvement efforts by evaluating project outcomes, identifying opportunities to streamline processes, and implementing enhancements that improve team efficiency and delivery.
  • Proactively identifies risks, dependencies and delivery challenges, independently resolving complex issues with minimal supervision and escalating only the most critical challenges as needed.
  • Partners with marketing, sales, business, finance, and technology stakeholders to effectively coordinate cross-functional initiatives, approvals, and project execution, ensuring alignment throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Provides leadership visibility into project status, priorities, resource capacity, and workload while managing multiple workstreams and maintaining focus on broader organizational goals.
  • Supports marketing planning, budget administration, resource management, and operational reporting to improve efficiency, accountability, and strategic alignment across teams.
  • Mentors less tenured team members on project management methodologies, best practices, and tools order to promote consistency, accountability, collaboration, and effective project execution.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field.
  • Minimum 7 years of experience in project management, marketing operations, marketing coordination, or a related role supporting marketing teams and integrated marketing campaigns.
  • Experience managing budgets, invoices, or financial reporting processes.
  • Experience within financial services, agriculture, or other regulated industries preferred.
  • Proven knowledge of project management principles, methodologies, and best practices, including project planning, scheduling, risk management, and resource coordination.
  • Advanced knowledge of marketing operations, campaign planning, and cross-functional project coordination.
  • Strong organizational, planning, prioritization, and project management skills with demonstrated ability managing multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced environment.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Ability to influence stakeholders and drive projects forward without direct authority.
  • Proficiency with CRM, marketing technology, and work management platforms such as CoSchedule, Workfront, Asana, Monday.com, Jira, or similar tools.

Benefits

  • Hybrid model – up to 50% work from home
  • Flexible schedules including ample flexibility in the summer months
  • Up to 9% towards 401k (3% fixed Compeer contribution plus up to 6% match)
  • Benefits: medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, life & AD&D insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness program & EAP
  • Vacation, sick leave, holidays/floating holidays, parental leave, and volunteer paid time off
  • Learning and development programs
  • Mentorship programs
  • Cross-functional committee opportunities (i.e. Inclusion Council, emerging professional groups, etc.)
  • Professional membership/certification reimbursement and more!
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Compeer Financial

Compeer Financial is a member-owned, Farm Credit cooperative. We bring together team members with diverse backgrounds and experiences to help provide loans, leases, risk management and other financial services to support agriculture and rural communities throughout Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. We believe a fulfilling life and career go hand-in-hand. To encourage Compeer team members to feel ‘empowered to live, inspired to work’, we offer flexible schedules, robust benefits, opportunities for career growth and professional development, inclusivity and a hybrid work environment where they can split up to 50% of their time between working remotely and in one of our 40+ offices across our territory.At Compeer, our team members experience purposeful work that enriches agriculture and rural America, in an organization where everyone is empowered to thrive both personally and professionally!You don’t have to be an agriculture expert to join team Compeer. While some positions work directly with our clients on their farming operations, we also have career opportunities for diversified skillsets in marketing, finance, information technology and more. Interested in learning more about what it’s like to work at Compeer? Visit compeer.com/careers.

Founded in 2017
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, USA
1.1K employees (37 in marketing)