Marketing Project Manager

Socket.dev; Town of Brookfield (WI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Best Version Media is seeking a Marketing Project Manager to act as the ultimate air traffic controller for the marketing department, owning intake, scoping, resource allocation, and final delivery.

By setting clear priorities, defending brief quality, and managing team capacity, you will ensure high-value initiatives move forward smoothly and on time.

Qualifications

• 5+ years managing marketing projects in an agency or fast-paced in-house environment.
• Experience building intake workflows and capacity views in monday.com, Asana, Workfront, or Wrike.
• Ability to defend priorities with senior leaders while remaining constructive.

Responsibilities

• Serve as gatekeeper for all marketing requests using monday.com.
• Enforce brief standards—clear objectives, target audiences, business needs, and approval paths.
• Develop and manage a quarterly priority scoring model, maintaining a visible parking lot and stop list.
• Maintain a live dashboard of team workloads, dependencies, and capacity to set realistic deadlines.
• Lead weekly traffic meetings, drive follow-through on decisions, and resolve blockers from kickoff to delivery.
• Facilitate clear project communication across field sales, recruiting, executive leadership, and creative teams.
• Track and report key metrics including brief compliance, revision rounds, on-time delivery rates, and workload vs capacity.

Skills

Marketing PM

monday.com proficiency

Cross-functional collaboration

Resource planning

Stakeholder management

Tools

monday.com

Asana

Workfront

Wrike

Job description

Description

Overview:

Best Version Media was founded in 2007 and now serves over 1,300 communities across the U.S. and Canada. We connect local businesses to customers with a suite of innovative print and digital solutions. Our print magazines, powered by our advertisers and readers, are tailored to the communities we serve by showcasing local families, nonprofits, events, and more. Our digital advertising works with our print campaigns to build brand awareness and help businesses expand their online reach with local customers. We also offer convenient tools to help businesses manage their online presence and enhance searchability.

Our vision is to unite the hearts and minds of communities – one person, one home, one business at a time. We value family, teamwork, and an open exchange of ideas as we strive to become the best versions of ourselves. Our award-winning culture has been recognized countless times by organizations like Fortune, Glassdoor, Great Place to Work, and more.

Summary:

Best Version Media (BVM) is looking for a Marketing Project Manager to serve as the ultimate air traffic controller for our marketing department. In this role, you will own the end-to-end process for all marketing work—from intake and scoping to resource allocation and final delivery. By establishing clear priorities, defending brief quality, and managing team capacity, you will ensure our highest-value business initiatives move forward smoothly.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the sole gatekeeper for all marketing requests using monday.com to capture, evaluate, and organize work across the company.
• Enforce strict brief standards—requiring clear objectives, target audiences, business needs, and approval paths with the authority to return incomplete requests.
• Develop and manage a quarterly priority scoring model, maintaining a visible parking lot and stop list to keep low-priority work from consuming resources.
• Maintain a live dashboard of team workloads, dependencies, and capacity to set realistic deadlines.
• Lead weekly traffic meetings, drive clear follow-through on decisions, and proactively resolve project blockers from kickoff to delivery.
• Facilitate clear project communication across field sales, recruiting, executive leadership, and creative teams.
• Track and report key metrics including brief compliance, revision rounds, on-time delivery rates, and overall workload versus capacity.

Requirements

Skills and Requirements:

• 5+ years managing creative or marketing projects within an agency or fast-paced in-house environment.
• Hands-on experience building intake workflows, schedules, and capacity views in monday.com, Asana, Workfront, or Wrike.
• Proven ability to score, negotiate, and defend priorities with senior leaders while remaining helpful and firm.
• Solid working understanding of creative workflows across print, digital, video, and event assets.

What will make you stand out:

• Experience supporting a distributed sales force, franchising, multi-location, publishing, or local media business.
• Specific background in agency traffic management, resource allocation, or creative operations.
• Demonstrated track record of establishing scalable intake frameworks and clear team SLAs.
• Ability to leverage project metrics to reduce revision rounds and eliminate bottlenecked processes.

Ready to bring order to creativity, empower our team, and drive BVM's marketing vision forward.