Marketing Operations Associate

Principal Financial Group; Des Moines (IA); Hybrid; USD 58,900 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Principal Financial Group in Des Moines is seeking a Marketing Operations Associate to support project management and traffic coordination for marketing campaigns. You will collaborate with stakeholders, organize requests in Salesforce Marketing Cloud, and maintain timelines.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of relevant experience, strong communication skills, and proficiency with Confluence, Teams, Wrike, and Jira. This position offers a hybrid work arrangement in Des Moines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in marketing, communications, advertising, or related field.
• 2+ years of proven work experience as a traffic coordinator, marketing analyst, marketing coordinator.
• Proven experience managing projects in matrixed organizations.
• Ability to juggle multiple projects with sharp attention to detail.
• Demonstrable ability to communicate, present, and influence stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal and decision-making skills.
• Customer service skills and ability to connect with diverse people.
• Ability to present ideas, negotiate, and solve problems.
• Excellent listening, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Experience using Confluence and Microsoft Teams, or similar tools.
• Experience with Wrike, JIRA, or other workflow systems.

Responsibilities

• Intake, organize, prep, and assign Salesforce Marketing Cloud design and deployment requests.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand needs and connection points.
• Establish and nurture a collaborative environment with multiple stakeholders.
• Help evolve our processes with an eye toward optimization, collaboration, and efficiency.
• Keep teammates and business partners aligned with clear, ongoing communication and timeline management.
• Uphold project management collaboration tool standards and best practices.

Skills

Strong communication

Project management

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Customer service skills

Verbal and written communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, advertising, or related field

Tools

Confluence

Microsoft Teams

Wrike

JIRA

Job description

What You'll Do

We are looking for a strong communicator who is organized, tech-savvy, and has strong project management skills to work on our Marketing Operations & Technology team as a Marketing Operations Associate, focusing on project management and traffic coordination for marketing campaigns. This is a highly collaborative and extremely detail-oriented role!

Here is how you'll spend your day:

• Intake, organize, prep, and assign Salesforce Marketing Cloud design and deployment requests.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand needs and connection points.
• Establish and nurture a collaborative environment with multiple stakeholders.
• Help evolve our processes with an eye toward optimization, collaboration, and efficiency.
• Keep teammates and business partners aligned with clear, ongoing communication and timeline management.
• Uphold project management collaboration tool standards and best practices.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in marketing, communications, advertising, or related field.
• 2+ years of proven work experience as a traffic coordinator, marketing analyst, marketing coordinator.
• Proven experience managing projects in matrixed organizations.
• Must be able to juggle multiple projects at a time while maintaining sharp attention to detail.
• Demonstrable ability to communicate, present, and influence key stakeholders.
• Must have strong interpersonal and decision-making skills.
• Need strong customer service skills as well as the ability to connect and interact with a wide variety of people.
• Ability to present ideas, negotiate, and solve problems.
• Great listening, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Experience using Confluence and Microsoft Teams, or similar tools.
• Experience using workflow management software, such as Wrike, JIRA, or other systems.

Salary Range Information

Salary ranges below reflect targeted base salaries. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.

Salary Range (Non-Exempt expressed as hourly; Exempt expressed as yearly)

$58900 - $70000 / year

Time Off Program

Flexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees and provides the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short-term illness. Employees don’t accrue a bank of time off under FTO and there is no set number of days provided.

Pension Eligible

Yes

Location

This role will be located at Principal World Headquarters in Des Moines IA and will benefit from a hybrid work arrangement with 3 days a week in the office in a typical work week.

Work Authorization/Sponsorship

At this time, we're not considering applicants that need any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but IS NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc. For additional information around work authorization needs please use the following links.

Nonimmigrant Workers (https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary-nonimmigrant-workers) and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants (https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-eligibility/green-card-for-employment-based-immigrants)

Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.