Manager, Brand Marketing Operations & Strategy

The Sage Group; United States; On-site; USD 320,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

The Sage Group is seeking a strategic Manager, Brand Marketing Operations & Strategy to join our growing Marketing team in the United States. This contractor role focuses on building the operating structure that enables scalable brand initiatives and cross-functional collaboration.

You will manage budgets, procurement, and culture programs while supporting monthly reporting and high-impact brand projects. This full-time contract engagement (~6–12 months) offers flexibility to travel and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in program management, marketing operations, or related roles.
• Experience building marketing/ business operations in complex, high-velocity environments.
• Experience designing scalable campaign strategies across creative, product marketing, and external partners.
• Experience creating cross-functional alignment programs connecting marketing with product and sales.
• Experience designing culture or learning and development programs for distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic budget management and purchase order support across the full brand team, keeping spend visible and moving.
• Own brand marketing budget controlling and reporting; partner with Finance to surface reinvestment opportunities.
• Support marketing procurement systems, including vendor onboarding and processes to keep purchasing predictable.
• Provide program management execution and strategy support for strategic brand programs.
• Coordinate marketing business reviews and provide strategic inputs, timelines, materials, and follow-ups.
• Build lightweight, flexible org processes and central resources.
• Contribute to culture and community programming for the marketing organization.

Skills

Budget management

Program management

Cross-functional coordination

Strategy development

Vendor onboarding

Job description

Manager, Brand Marketing Operations & Strategy

Duration: 12 months

Compensation: $160/Hour

Summary

We're seeking a strategic and operationally-minded Manager, Brand Marketing Strategy & Operations to join our rapidly growing Marketing team.

Marketing Strategy & Operations is the connective tissue of the organization. As we scale, you'll be key in helping us build the operating structure that keeps them moving.

In this contractor role, you'll support marketing budget management and procurement, culture programs, monthly reporting, alongside supporting the strategy and execution of a portfolio of high-touch strategic projects — the work that needs real program management, cross-functional coordination, and leadership visibility.

You'll report to the Brand Marketing Strategy & Operations Lead. This is a high-impact opportunity for someone who thrives in ambiguity and complexity, who is energized by working across many teams, and who would rather build the system than run the same play twice.

This contractor role is also perfect for someone who meets the requirements below, and who is passionate about enabling teams to do their best work in service of our mission to develop safe and beneficial AI. This is a full-time contract engagement of approximately 6 months with the possibility of extension, with some flexibility to travel needed.

Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic budget management and purchase order support across the full brand team, keeping spend visible, accurate, and moving
• Own brand marketing budget controlling and reporting, and partner with Finance to proactively surface opportunities for reinvestment
• Support marketing procurement systems, including vendor onboarding and the processes that keep purchasing predictable
• Provide program management execution and strategy support for our strategic brand programs
• Coordinate marketing business reviews and provide strategic support to it, including inputs, timelines, materials, and follow-ups
• Build lightweight, simple, and flexible org processes and central resources
• Contribute to culture and community programming for the marketing organization, such as offsites, recognition, and learning and development

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in program management, marketing operations, brand marketing operations, business operations, strategy, chief of staff, or related roles
• Experience building a marketing operations or business operations function from the ground up in a complex, high-velocity and multi-stakeholder environment
• Experience designing campaign strategies that scale across creative, product marketing, and external partners
• Experience building cross-functional alignment programs and systems that connect marketing with product, sales, and other teams
• Experience designing culture, community, or learning and development programs for a distributed team