Marketing Operations Project Manager

HireTalent - Staffing & Recruiting Firm; Morrisville (NC); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

HireTalent - Staffing & Recruiting Firm is seeking a Marketing Operations Program Manager in Morrisville, NC. The role coordinates strategy, program management, and functional teams to deliver measurable business outcomes quickly and at scale.

You will drive intake, prioritization, resource alignment, and execution tracking while maintaining an integrated view of all team commitments and ensuring a one-team mindset across marketing functions.

Qualifications

• 4–7+ years of experience in marketing operations, project/program management, or business operations.
• Experience working across cross-functional, matrixed teams.
• Experience building or improving operating models, processes, or governance structures.
• Strong organizational, prioritization, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with reporting, dashboards, and performance tracking.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Responsibilities

• Establish and run team operating cadence (weekly/monthly, QBRs, reviews).
• Design meeting structures, agendas, and decision frameworks.
• Lead planning for team events, offsites, and sessions.
• Ensure governance across initiatives with clear roles and escalation paths.
• Oversee intake, prioritization, and planning to align work with missions.
• Track progress, milestones, risks, and ownership across teams.
• Consolidate reporting for leadership updates and QBRs.
• Promote cross-team integration and a unified operating model.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional teams

Operating models

Governance & cadence

Reporting & dashboards

Time management

Communication

Organization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Marketing

Job description

The Marketing Operations Program Manager is responsible for running the operating system of the Marketing Business Partner team. This role ensures the team functions as a single, integrated unit aligned to shared business missions.

There are four new marketing organizations within the client. This person will help keep this team in sync with overall goals and how those connect. This person will look across the other teams in marketing to support digital marketing, event marketing, and content marketing teams and work to keep collaboration high and bring more structure and communication with this team. (US Industrial Automation business marketing)

You will orchestrate how work flows across strategy, program management, and functional teams. This includes driving intake, prioritization, resource alignment, execution tracking, and performance visibility team wide. This role sits at the center of a cross-functional marketing team and ensures the group operates as one aligned unit, focused on delivering measurable business outcomes with speed and at scale.

Key Responsibilities

1. Team Operating Rhythm & Governance

• Establish and run the team-level operating cadence (weekly / monthly, QBRs, and mission reviews)
• Design and manage meeting structures, agendas, and decision frameworks
• Lead planning for team events, offsites, and F2F sessions
• Ensure clear governance across all initiatives, including roles, decision rights, and escalation paths
• Outcome: A consistent, predictable, and high-functioning team rhythm

2. Mission Intake, Prioritization, and Planning

• Oversee the central intake process for marketing requests and initiatives within the Marketing Business Partner team
• Facilitate prioritization in partnership with Marketing Business Partner Leader and Strategic Marketers
• Ensure all work aligns to defined missions and business priorities
• Identify gaps, overlaps, and constraints across missions
• Partner with functional teams to optimize resource deployment
• Maintain a single, integrated view of all team commitments
• Outcome: Work is focused on the highest-value priorities, with clear trade-offs and alignment

3. Execution Tracking & Delivery Management

• Track progress across all active missions and initiatives
• Ensure milestones, dependencies, and risks are identified and managed
• Drive accountability across cross-functional teams
• Outcome: Work moves forward on time, with clear ownership and transparency

4. Performance Tracking & Reporting

• Consolidate input from Program Managers and functional teams into cohesive, team-level reporting
• Provide leadership visibility into progress, performance, and impact
• Support QBRs and executive updates with clear insights
• Outcome: Leadership has a clear, real-time view of team performance

5. Cross-Team Integration

• Ensure alignment across strategy, program management, and functional execution teams
• Connect work across missions to avoid duplication and fragmentation
• Drive a \"one team\" mindset, removing silos and handoffs
• Reinforce standard ways of working across Marketing Business Partner teams
• Outcome: The team operates as a unified system, not a collection of functions

Qualifications

• 4–7+ years of experience in marketing operations, project/program management, or business operations
• Proven ability to work across cross-functional, matrixed teams
• Experience building or improving operating models, processes, or governance structures
• Strong organizational, prioritization, and problem-solving skills
• Experience with reporting, dashboards, and performance tracking
• Bachelor's degree required

What Success Looks Like

• The Marketing Business Partner team operates with clear priorities, structured cadences, and full alignment across the extended team
• Leadership has clear visibility into performance and progress
• Teams spend less time coordinating work and more time delivering impact
• Missions are executed faster, with fewer dependencies and better outcomes

Must Have Skills

• 4-7 Years of experience (can be a mix of experience between sales and marketing) do not submit someone super senior-this is junior/mid-level
• Bachelors Degree (Marketing)
• strong mathematical skills for pricing/revenue analysis.
• Experience with time management (managing projects where people and timelines required a lot of oversight)
• Personable, good communication, detail oriented
• Strong written, verbal skills, and organization skills