Senior Manager of Marketing Operations

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading global technology company at the forefront of digital innovation, partnering with Aquent to find exceptional talent. As a pivotal leader, you will be instrumental in shaping the future of marketing operations, driving a groundbreaking shift towards AI-enabled transformation. Your work will directly impact how marketing strategies are brought to life, ensuring global teams are equipped with cutting-edge processes and tools to deliver outstanding results and redefine industry standards. Get ready to make a significant and lasting mark on a dynamic, high-growth organization! We are seeking a visionary and results-driven Senior Manager of Marketing Operations to elevate our marketing capabilities.

In this role, you will lead the charge in operational excellence, overseeing global marketing operations from strategic planning and process optimization to financial management and performance reporting. You'll collaborate closely with senior marketing leadership and cross-functional teams, translating ambitious marketing strategies into actionable plans and ensuring resources are allocated effectively. This is your chance to build, implement, and scale innovative, AI-first solutions that empower teams across multiple regions to achieve unparalleled success.

**What you'll do:** *

**Lead Marketing Operations & Execution:*

• Design, plan, and execute marketing operations processes, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery across global teams.
• Distill marketing strategies into clear plans, workflows, and execution frameworks.
• Build and optimize operational workflows and lead the integration of AI into marketing operations, moving from strategic pilots to scalable implementation.
• Re-engineer key marketing workflows (planning, campaign execution, reporting) to be AI-first and modular, while ensuring human creativity and strategic judgment remain central.
• Design and implement AI-enabled processes and operating models that increase speed, consistency, and performance.

**Strategic Planning & Resource Allocation:**

• Drive annual and quarterly marketing planning processes, ensuring alignment with global priorities and regional needs.
• Partner with marketing leadership to ensure effective resource allocation across initiatives, regions, and teams.
• Support leadership with long-term planning, scenario modeling, and strategic decision support.

**Oversee Budget & Financial Management:**

• Manage the global marketing budget, ensuring disciplined and effective financial oversight.
• Serve as the primary point of contact with Finance for marketing financial reporting, forecasting, and management. Develop and maintain financial controls and reporting mechanisms to ensure compliance.

**Champion Process Improvement & Operational Excellence:**

• Identify and implement opportunities to enhance efficiency and effectiveness across marketing operations, with a particular focus on AI-enabled automation.
• Build scalable, repeatable processes that support rapid growth and evolving organizational needs.

**Provide Leadership & Foster Collaboration:**

• Foster a collaborative, results-driven environment that encourages open communication, knowledge sharing, and experimentation with new AI-enabled approaches.
• Influence and align stakeholders across a highly matrixed, global organization.
• Provide guidance and operational leadership to marketing teams on both traditional operations and AI adoption.

**Must-Have Qualifications:**

• 7-10+ years of experience in marketing operations, marketing strategy, business operations, or related roles.
• Hands-on experience applying generative AI to marketing processes, workflows, or content operations.
• Proven experience supporting global, multi-region marketing organizations.
• Strong background in marketing planning, operational execution, and performance reporting.
• Demonstrated expertise in budget management and financial forecasting with close partnership with Finance.
• Experience building, scaling, and optimizing processes, workflows, and governance models in complex, matrixed environments, particularly through AI enablement and process transformation.
• Proven ability to manage and influence senior stakeholders, including VP-level leaders, with confidence and credibility.
• Experience translating high-level strategy into clear, actionable operational plans and decision-ready materials.
• Strong executive communication skills, including deck creation, narrative development, and presenting in senior leadership forums.
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with Finance, Analytics, Legal, Procurement, IT, Brand, and external vendors.
• Familiarity with marketing operations tools, workflow/project management systems, marketing finance platforms, and AI/automation tools.
• Deep understanding of brand governance, legal/compliance requirements, and how to operationalize them in AI-enabled systems.
• Ability to lead through influence, fostering alignment across global teams and time zones.
• Comfortable testing, iterating, and learning quickly in pilot environments.

**Nice-to-Have Qualifications:**

• Experience building or working with AI agents, prompt libraries, or marketing automation tools.
• Background in change enablement and transformation programs related to AI or technology adoption.
• Experience in regulated industries.
• Familiarity with enterprise AI governance and responsible AI frameworks.

**About Aquent Talent:** Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. More information on our awesome benefits! Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $78 to $87. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

About Aquent Talent:

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.

Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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