The Relationship Management Sr. Associate plays a critical role in bridging marketing strategy and execution within the Card Marketing Activation and Transformation (CMAT) organization. As part of the Activation team, you will serve as the day-to-day relationship owner for a defined area of marketing strategy, ensuring seamless alignment between strategic priorities and execution readiness.
Job responsibilities
- Serve as day-to-day point of contact for a specific marketing team (e.g. customer marketing, brand, cobrand, acquisition), ensuring alignment across strategy, CMAT (Card Marketing Activation and Transformation), and downstream partners
- Build strong relationships with strategy marketing stakeholders while collaborating closely with internal execution and transformation teams
- Partner with data and analytics teams to establish partnership health dashboards and metrics, providing clear narrative insights and recommendations
- Identify bottlenecks and risks that impact campaign activation and work across teams to develop solutions and communicate impacts
- Contribute to cross-area initiatives (e.g. automation tools, new processes, reporting improvements) that strengthen execution across the organization
- Proactively identify and recommend process improvements that enhance effectiveness across marketing execution
- Stay current on new capabilities, tools, and processes, helping educate partners on their implications for campaign planning and execution
- Communicate effectively with senior leaders, distilling complex issues into clear, concise updates and recommendations
- Learn and support across other business units as needed, developing a broad understanding of how marketing strategy partnerships operate and flexing into adjacent workstreams with priority shifts
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 5+ years of business experience, minimum 2 years of relationship management
- Thrives in ambiguity and able to create structure and process from blank space
- Excellent communication skills with strong interpersonal skills in both verbal and written communication
- Experience in marketing operations, marketing strategy, project/program management, or consulting
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders in both written and verbal formats
- Comfort working in fast-paced environment with flexibility to navigate ebbs and flows of workload
- Proven self-starter with the ability to operate independently, adapt to ambiguity, and ramp up quickly
- Creative and proactive mindset for identifying process improvements and driving adoption
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Strong collaboration skills with the ability to influence across teams without direct authority
- High degree of self-awareness, resilience, and a proactive, solution-oriented approach
- Experience creating and presenting in PowerPoint and Tableau
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priority initiatives concurrently