Orchestrate the team’s business planning functions and milestones, managing project execution and budget to ensure we’re properly deploying resources and facilitating internal collaboration and communication to key stakeholders on various marketing programs
Create a vision for Marketing PMO at Cisco, maintain an agile operating model, and maintain the change management process
Must have a strong understanding of marketing roles, and what’s needed to support marketing campaigns, asset and communications creation, event coordination, product launches, field enablement, reporting, and more
Build and develop and coach a of program and project managers
Identify and plan to improve areas needing process optimization to contribute to growth solutions that help us scale our business value
Align key internal stakeholders on marketing project timelines and dependencies via proactive internal communication, alignment, accountability, and enforcement of processes
Own and facilitate strategy, marketing plan and blueprinting processes. Instill discipline and consistency across the marketing team through clear operational methodologies and documentation
Oversee team in delivering excellence on key duties like:
Managing our sprint methodology to execute against our marketing plan and priorities
Owning weekly Steering Committee meetings with our senior leadership team, in close partnership with the Chief of Staff to the SVP of Customer Solutions Marketing
Creating and optimizing execution processes and documentation in highly matrixed organization
Training and communication of change management plans
Be a key influencer for all processes for business operations, product operations, and obtaining business value from strategic initiatives
Instill discipline and consistency across the marketing team through clear operational methodologies and documentation
Who You Are
You have 10+ years Marketing project management and strong communication, organization and leadership skills
You have a clear vision of what a PMO Center of Excellence looks like and have created a PMO in the past
Experience running Steering Committees and implementing agile marketing methodologies in a highly matrixed Marketing team
PMP, CSM, or Certificate of Project Management preferred
Experience working within or closely with a B2B marketing organization; technology industry, software/SaaS, security or networking industry experience a plus
Good communication, diplomatic problem-solving, and facilitation skills
Experience working with highly distributed and matrixed teams and remote working environments
Comfortable executing and leading through periods of ambiguity and change
Excel at rapid decision-making, consensus building and conflict resolution, all within the context of a fast paced, dynamic environment and the need to deliver results
Extract energy from everything mentioned above, and in the drive to succeed in a collaborative, fast-paced, and high-growth environment with dedicated, mission-oriented people
You will love this job if you are:
An influential Leader, who can set a vision for how our Marketing organization can be run efficiently and effectively, break it down into a phased plan, and bring others along as you help us execute
A Planner, who has incredible organizational skills and the ability to adapt to the unexpected (from your email inbox habits, to your time management, to the information you juggle ranging from people to projects);
A Self-Starter, who has enormous attention to detail and commitment to accuracy, coupled with the ability to think creatively and out of the box, with the long-term goals in mind, while focusing on the day-to-day;
A Problem-Solver, who uses rockstar multi-tasking and project management skills to respond proactively to challenges both in and out of your control;
A Facilitator, whose resourceful ability to respond to changes without missing a beat, positive “roll up your sleeves” attitude, and process-oriented nature makes you a great fit