Senior Marketing Ops Leader: Creative Process & Efficiency

The Kraft Heinz Company; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 142,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary range $141,500–$176,900

Performance bonus

Benefits program

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

The Kraft Heinz Company is seeking a Senior Brand Manager of Marketing Operations to lead the Creative Process and its rituals for Kraft Heinz North America. You will drive efficiency and alignment across brand teams, central marketing, and agencies, shaping the creative vision and ensuring timely decisions and ownership.

Responsibilities include evolving the Creative Process, guiding rituals, and improving IAT processes with brand partners.

Qualifications

• A curious, courageous, collaborative leader focused on creative process.
• Hands-on experience via client or agency side to understand marketer and agency goals.
• Fluency in developing, implementing and managing creative processes.
• Excellent communication, organization and relationship-building skills; strong narrative decks and consensus-building.
• Ability to influence broad teams without direct authority through trust and ownership.
• Resiliency in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with simultaneous project management.
• Excellence mindset and ability to drive agenda in ambiguous situations.

Responsibilities

• Evolve the Kraft Heinz Creative Process, identifying gaps and building plans to improve efficiency.
• Support the Creative Rituals and Routines; ensure meetings lead to decisions and ownership.
• Guide IAT processes with brand teams to maximize efficiency and impact.
• Share Creative Process best practices across the business unit brand teams.
• Support the budget management by ensuring production efficiencies where needed.

Skills

Creative process leadership

Agency/client experience

Communication skills

Influence without authority

Strategic thinking

Resilience

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

The Kraft Heinz Company is seeking a Senior Brand Manager of Marketing Operations to lead the Creative Process and its rituals for Kraft Heinz North America. You will drive efficiency and alignment across brand teams, central marketing, and agencies, shaping the creative vision and ensuring timely decisions and ownership.

Responsibilities include evolving the Creative Process, guiding rituals, and improving IAT processes with brand partners.