Marketing Director, Planning & Operations

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Director Marketing Planning & Operations
San Mateo CA (hybrid)

The Director Marketing Planning and Operations is a strategic leader responsible for supporting the SVP of Marketing in driving alignment integration and transformation across the Global Marketing organization. This role provides stewardship over portfolio-wide marketing planning and operations translating strategic direction into coordinated action and enabling marketing leaders and their teams to operate as a cohesive high-impact engine for growth.

Operating at the intersection of marketing strategy operations and change leadership this role ensures clarity of priorities integration of plans and disciplined execution in a fast-moving global environment.

Key Responsibilities

Integrated Planning

• Partner closely with the SVP of Marketing to align leadership direction with executable plans roadmaps and outcome measures that drive sustained business impact.
• Provide leadership and stewardship over integrated planning across Global Marketing and product disciplines ensuring alignment with SIEs priorities and long-term growth objectives.
• Maintain an enterprise-level portfolio view of initiatives investments and capacity enabling thoughtful prioritization informed trade-offs and responsible resource allocation.
• Ensure dependencies across functions regions and product teams are proactively identified managed and resolved in service of organizational effectiveness.
• Balance global alignment with appropriate local and product-level flexibility reinforcing a one SIE mindset while respecting market and portfolio needs.

Portfolio Strategy

• Support the SVP of Marketing in shaping and reinforcing clear priorities narratives and expectations across the organization.
• Maintain a deep current understanding of Global Marketing capabilities performance and organizational health across all marketing disciplines.
• Brings together performance data dashboards and KPIs across the marketing portfolio to determine how to set organizational-wide objectives to drive transformational growth.
• Integrate financial discipline ROI considerations and long-term value creation into portfolio planning and leadership discussions.
• Support the Marketing Leadership Team on select high-impact strategic and operational priorities.

Business Management

• Leader within Global Marketing forums contributing perspective rigor and enterprise context to leadership discussions and decisions.
• Design and lead quarterly in-person leadership engagements that strengthen alignment collaboration and shared accountability across the global leadership team.
• Advance operational excellence by evolving planning rhythms global marketing decision frameworks and leadership governance.
• Establish and sustain a disciplined operating cadence that reinforces accountability follow-through and continuous improvement.

Transformation & Change Leadership

• Lead cross-marketing initiatives that drive operating transformation including new ways of working tools and capabilities.
• Champion change management efforts to ensure adoption clarity and sustained impact across teams.
• Identify friction points in processes and workflows and design scalable solutions that improve speed effectiveness and collaboration.
• Establish and manage the marketing organizations operating rhythm (QBRs leadership meetings performance reviews etc.).
• Track progress against priorities KPIs and commitments.
• Ensure clear governance decision rights and accountability across complex matrixed teams.

What You Bring

• 15 years of experience in operations strategy and team leadership ideally within complex matrixed organizations.
• Proven success leading cross-functional and multi-functional teams through transformation and change.
• Strong strategic and analytical capability with the ability to bring structure clarity and focus to complex problem spaces and executive decision-making.
• Exceptional executive communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and align diverse perspectives.
• Experience operating across multiple regions and broad portfolios.
• Background in management consulting combined with experience as an operating leader is required.
• MBA or equivalent advanced degree is required

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