Senior Program Manager

blue plate minds; Paoli (CO); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

blue plate minds is seeking an experienced in-house marketing professional to manage relationships between communications and marketing teams. This role requires at least 10 years of experience in a corporate creative setting, a Bachelor’s degree in a related field, and strong communication skills. Responsibilities include leading campaign strategies, building effective partnerships, and ensuring high-quality execution of marketing initiatives. Applicants must possess exceptional project management and client relationship skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience managing campaigns in a corporate creative setting.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in managing multiple clients and agency partners.
• Strong presentation and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned business units and marketing teams.
• Build, maintain, and strengthen effective working relationships.
• Ensure high-quality partnership experience by aligning expectations.
• Partner with creative leadership to shape campaign strategy.

Skills

Marketing acumen

Communication skills

Project management

Client relationship building

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, Graphic Design, or related field

Job description

Dynamic and highly talented in-house creative department is searching for an agency experienced, marketing professional. This position will be responsible for the relationship between communications, the in-house creative agency, and the marketing teams. In addition to building and maintaining cross-functional relationships this senior level professional will ensure that communication campaigns, projects, and creative initiatives are strategically aligned to business objectives. Day-to-day activities include shaping briefs, developing program strategy, aligning stakeholders, supporting campaign execution, and ensuring work is delivered on time, on budget, and meeting the company’s high-quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned business units and marketing teams.
• Build, maintain, and strengthen effective working relationships between Communications and marketing.
• Ensure a high-quality partnership experience by aligning expectations, fostering communications and proactively addressing issues.
• Develop a deep understanding of business objectives, markets, audiences, and challenges.
• Foster deep partnership and collaboration with creative leadership to shape campaign strategy and guide work from brief intake through execution ensuring continuity, quality, and strategic focus.
• Partner with the Communications Director to ensure business needs, campaign priorities, and program decisions align with departmental strategy and to support informed leadership decision making – escalating risks, competing priorities and significant stakeholder issues as needed.
• Partner with creative leadership and marketing to build, review, and strengthen project briefs at intake to define goals, audiences, scope, and deliverables.
• Lead the development and execution of communication campaigns across creative functional areas and outside agencies, ensuring they have the direction, context, and inputs needed to deliver effectively.
• Problem-solve with creative leadership and project teams to address project needs, evolution, and challenges to keep campaign development moving.
• Provide strategic guidance and mentorship for project managers managing complex work and cross-functional coordination to support on-time, on-budget, high-quality execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, Graphic Design, Visual Design, or related field.
• Minimum 10 years of experience managing campaigns in a corporate creative setting an agency required.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in managing multiple clients across an organization and agency partners.
• Marketing acumen and demonstrated experience in leading an integrated creative team in creative strategy, development and execution.
• Demonstrated success at developing valued relationships with senior level clients and building relationships across all client levels.
• Demonstrated success as strategic partner to clients.
• Demonstrated presentation, verbal, written and communication skills.