Global Brand Experience Marketing Operations Lead

London, UK (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and drive The Kitchen governance and operational workflows, ensuring tight agency collaboration, effective briefing governance, and strong commercial stewardship across global and regional teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • The Kitchen (IAT) Governance Operational Leadership
  • Serve as the day-to-day operational lead forThe Kitchen (our Integrated Agency Team), building streamlined workflows, SOPs, and collaborative ways of working across internal teams and agency partners.
  • Direct the Agency Relationship Management program (including performance reviews) and partner with regional teams to deploy brand growth strategies that achieve commercial targets.
  • Briefing Governance Creative Project Orchestration
  • Act as the primary gatekeeper for all global briefs and manage the master Brand Experience calendar to align review gates and launch timelines across global and regional hubs.
  • Maintain rigorous project governance to proactively unblock operational bottlenecks and ensure all campaign assets are delivered on time, within scope, and in compliance with regulations.
  • Marketing Operations, Internal Comms Brand Content Delivery
  • Oversee the end-to-end production, maintenance, and deployment of global BX brand related playbooks, guidelines, and localized toolkits for regional teams.
  • Direct strategic and creative content for high-profile business milestones (e.g., Global Marketing Town Halls, Summits, Brand Days, GNFLT) and lead quarterlywalk the wall reviews to share learnings and drive brand consistency.
  • Commercial Financial Stewardship

Requirements

  • A strong relationship builder, the ability to stand alone, influence without authority, and work with cross functional and multi geographies
  • Significant experience in marketing operations, creative project management, or creative agency production
  • A proven track record of managing multi-discipline integrated agency teams (IAT models incl CMI, Media, PR, Design/Content. Commerce, RA), agency governance, SOW tracking, and workflow orchestration, across our hub and spoke model..
  • Deep understanding of integrated production pipelines across multi-channel brand experiences
  • Hands-on experience with marketing procurement tools and processes (e.g., SAP, Coupa, Ariba), budget tracking, PO creation, and vendor cost reconciliations.
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to align diverse, senior cross-functional teams and external agency leaders under tight timelines.
  • Proficiency with enterprise project management tools (e.g. Salsify, DAM platforms, Miro, Mural, Microsoft, Mac based applications) and collaborative suites.
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