Marketing PMO Leader: Strategy, Delivery & Ops

Archer; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer is seeking a Strategist, Marketing PMO to lead planning, prioritization, and execution of marketing and shared services initiatives. You will oversee a three-member PMO team and partner with Integrated Marketing, Operations, Creative Services, and other functions to drive efficient execution and visibility across the organization.

The ideal candidate balances strategic planning with execution excellence, is highly collaborative, data-driven, and skilled at building processes, leading

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, Project Management, or a related field
• 7+ years of experience in project management, PMO leadership, marketing operations, business operations, or a related discipline
• 2+ years of people leadership experience, including managing and developing project managers or operational teams
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
• Strong understanding of project portfolio management, resource planning, and operational governance
• Experience establishing and improving workflows, project management methodologies, and business processes
• Advanced proficiency with work management platforms such as Workfront, Asana, Monday.com, Jira, or similar systems
• Strong analytical, reporting, and executive communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and drive execution without direct authority

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Project Managers responsible for coordinating marketing and shared services initiatives
• Establish team priorities, workload distribution, performance expectations, and professional development plans
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and customer service
• Provide coaching and guidance to project managers on project planning, stakeholder management, and execution best practices
• Build PMO capabilities, standards, and operating models that scale with organizational growth
• Own and lead the centralized intake process for marketing and shared services requests
• Partner with functional leaders to evaluate, prioritize, and sequence work based on business objectives, capacity, and strategic importance
• Ensure projects are properly scoped, documented, resourced, and aligned to organizational goals before work begins
• Establish governance processes for project intake, approval, prioritization, and execution
• Monitor portfolio health and proactively identify resource constraints, competing priorities, risks, and dependencies
• Oversee the successful delivery of marketing initiatives across multiple teams and workstreams
• Drive project planning, milestone management, and execution discipline through standardized project management methodologies
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with stakeholder expectations
• Escalate and resolve project roadblocks while facilitating decision-making across stakeholders
• Continuously improve project management practices, workflows, governance models, and service delivery processes
• Lead resource planning and workload management across marketing, creative services, and shared services teams
• Maintain visibility into team capacity, utilization, prioritization, and upcoming resource needs
• Partner with department leaders to balance demand against available resources and make recommendations on staffing, outsourcing, and prioritization
• Develop forecasting processes to support annual planning and operational decision-making
• Oversee operational relationships with agencies, contractors, and external partners
• Identify opportunities to improve vendor performance, efficiency, and value realization
• Monitor project budgets and vendor spend to ensure alignment with approved budgets and financial objectives
• Partner with marketing stakeholders and procurement to facilitate contracts, statements of work, invoices, and renewals
• Develop and oversee reporting frameworks that provide visibility into project demand, throughput, resource utilization, project status, and operational performance
• Establish KPIs and operational dashboards to measure PMO effectiveness and service delivery
• Deliver portfolio insights and recommendations to marketing leadership to support planning and prioritization decisions
• Prepare executive-ready updates, presentations, and operational reviews for senior leadership

Skills

PMO leadership

Stakeholder management

Data-driven

Cross-functional

Education

Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, Project Management, or related field

Tools

Workfront

Asana

Monday.com

Jira

Job description

Archer is seeking a Strategist, Marketing PMO to lead planning, prioritization, and execution of marketing and shared services initiatives. You will oversee a three-member PMO team and partner with Integrated Marketing, Operations, Creative Services, and other functions to drive efficient execution and visibility across the organization.

The ideal candidate balances strategic planning with execution excellence, is highly collaborative, data-driven, and skilled at building processes, leading