Global Campaign Project Lead

GCS Recruitment; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment is seeking a Global Campaign Project Manager to plan, coordinate, track, and govern marketing initiatives across the SMB Marketing organization. This role acts as the operational backbone, ensuring projects are properly planned, resourced, tracked, and delivered on time.

The manager will collaborate with Campaign Activation, Marketing Automation, Lifecycle Marketing, and other teams, oversee Wrike governance, dashboards, RAID logs, and reporting, and drive transparency in work

Responsibilities

• Develop project plans for approved marketing initiatives and campaigns
• Create and maintain project schedules, timelines, milestones, and dependencies
• Coordinate activities across multiple teams to ensure work progresses according to plan
• Facilitate project kickoffs, planning meetings, status meetings, and stakeholder reviews
• Monitor project progress and communicate updates to stakeholders and leadership
• Ensure project documentation remains accurate and current throughout the project lifecycle
• Identify and manage dependencies across teams, systems, vendors, and stakeholders
• Coordinate handoffs between functional teams
• Proactively identify bottlenecks and risks that could impact project timelines
• Escalate issues and facilitate resolution when projects encounter obstacles
• Support leadership in making informed prioritization and resource decisions
• Maintain project status reports, dashboards, RAID logs, and executive updates
• Ensure projects follow established governance processes and approval workflows
• Monitor project health and provide visibility into schedule performance, risks, and resource impacts
• Support leadership reporting and portfolio reviews
• Establish consistency in project management standards, templates, and operating procedures
• Serve as the primary owner of project visibility and governance within Wrike
• Ensure all projects, initiatives, enhancements, operational activities, and campaign-related work are logged and maintained within Wrike
• Drive adoption and compliance with established work management processes
• Ensure project plans, timelines, statuses, and assignments remain accurate and current
• Maintain portfolio-level visibility into active work across SMB Marketing
• Support reporting and dashboard development to improve transparency and decision-making
• Monitor team capacity, workload distribution, and resource utilization across SMB Marketing
• Partner with team leaders to identify resource constraints and workload imbalances
• Ensure time tracking is completed accurately and consistently
• Analyze utilization and workload data to support planning and forecasting activities
• Provide leadership with visibility into team capacity, project demand, resource allocation, and delivery risks
• Recommend adjustments to priorities, timelines, and resource assignments when capacity challenges arise
• Support continuous improvement of project management processes and workflows
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, transparency, and collaboration across teams
• Promote disciplined project management practices and accountability
• Drive standardization of project intake, prioritization, planning, and reporting processes
• Partner with Corporate Affairs Project Management teams to align best practices where appropriate
• Role distinctions between Global Campaign Project Manager and Campaign Activation Manager

Job description

GCS Recruitment is seeking a Global Campaign Project Manager to plan, coordinate, track, and govern marketing initiatives across the SMB Marketing organization. This role acts as the operational backbone, ensuring projects are properly planned, resourced, tracked, and delivered on time.

The manager will collaborate with Campaign Activation, Marketing Automation, Lifecycle Marketing, and other teams, oversee Wrike governance, dashboards, RAID logs, and reporting, and drive transparency in work