Marketing Ops Leader: Strategy & Analytics

Modern Woodmen of America; Rock Island (IL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site office

Cafe 1883

401(k) matching

Health insurance covered for employee

Paid holidays

Career growth opportunities

Volunteering opportunities

Job summary

Modern Woodmen of America is seeking a Marketing Operations Manager to bring structure, visibility, and alignment to marketing priorities. You will lead project and program management, budgeting, vendor coordination, and analytics while partnering with leaders to translate strategy into actionable plans.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, collaborative, and capable of driving efficiency, improving processes, and supporting informed decision-making across the Marketing & Communications team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business administration, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Seven years of experience in marketing operations, project management, business support, or related function.
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and stakeholders.
• Advanced experience with reporting, analytics, budget tracking, vendor coordination, and process improvement.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, Workfront, and the ability to learn and use marketing, project management, and reporting tools effectively.
• Understanding of Google Analytics and/or other marketing and communications reporting tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, sound judgment, discretion, and a strong service orientation, with the ability to build trust and work effectively with leaders, team members, vendors, and internal stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage marketing projects, programs, timelines, deliverables and cross-functional coordination to ensure work is completed efficiently and on schedule.
• Organize department priorities, track progress, identify dependencies and help translate leadership decisions into clear action and accountability.
• Coordinate leadership meetings, priority reviews, decision tracking and follow-up activities to keep initiatives moving forward.
• Develop and improve operational processes that strengthen consistency, collaboration and teamwork effectiveness.
• Coordinate budgets, invoices, purchase orders, expenses and supporting documentation.
• Manage vendor communication, scheduling, documentation and follow-up.
• Oversee marketing systems, tools and workflows that support efficient operations and informed decision-making.
• Centralize analytics and reporting by preparing dashboards, recurring updates, summaries and actionable insights.
• Identify opportunities to improve systems, reporting practices, transparency and operational efficiency.
• Serve as a central communication and coordination resource for leaders, team members, vendors and internal stakeholders.
• Prepare agendas, meeting materials, notes, presentations, reports and follow-up items.
• Maintain confidentiality, professionalism, organization, discretion and sound judgment.

Skills

Project management

Reporting

Budgeting

Vendor coordination

Process improvement

Analytics

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, business administration

Tools

Microsoft Office

Workfront

Google Analytics

Job description

Modern Woodmen of America is seeking a Marketing Operations Manager to bring structure, visibility, and alignment to marketing priorities. You will lead project and program management, budgeting, vendor coordination, and analytics while partnering with leaders to translate strategy into actionable plans.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, collaborative, and capable of driving efficiency, improving processes, and supporting informed decision-making across the Marketing & Communications team.