Marketing Program Manager

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Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

• Partner with program managers and cross-functional division marketing team comprised of creative services, digital marketing, events, and analytics to ensure team is delivering against business unit programs consistently and in a timely fashion.
• Manage resources along with MPM, traffic and functional leaders to ensure a balanced workload, faster delivery and appropriate resource/skillset utilization for most effective outcomes.
• Consistently communicate status of programs/projects to BUs and DM leadership on a weekly basis, creating 100% transparency of prioritization, project status, expectations, next steps and final delivery.
• Anticipate potential roadblocks and proactively works to avoid them through active collaboration with peers and efficiency reviews.
• Acts as a leader within Marketing Program Management team to drive more consistency across team members and Business Units.
• Manage work in a project management tool (Workfront) to ensure tactics are moving through marketing operations and provide input to Operations team to improve our efficiency to supporting key partners.
• Deep understanding of the business unit’s business strategy and objectives and ability to translate it effectively to divisional marketing teams
• Manage relationships through open and consistent communication to establish and maintain Business Partner's trust including setting clear expectations.
• Identify process improvements and collaborate with operations to implement changes.
  
  

How will you get here?

Education

• Bachelor’s degree preferred (or applicable work experience)
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• 3-5 years working in a marketing program manager role, in a fast-paced highly matrixed organization and working with a global organization
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to understand business strategies and prioritize activities appropriately
• Experience with project management tool, preferably Workfront
• Experience with distinct program management methodologies including Agile
• Ability to lead multiple projects and shifting priorities within a fast-paced environment
• Experience working in a highly matrixed environment and effectively navigating systems/processes
• Ability to interpret business needs and identify key stakeholders to provide direction as needed
• Experience in diplomatic resolutions to meet both external and internal demands
• Problem-solver who is able to take challenges and convert them into solutions
• Strong understanding/experience in digital marketing best practices, execution & measurement.
  
  

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