Marketing Automation Manager REMOTE

Location: 100% Remote

Duration: 6 Months

Overview:

Our client needs a talented Marketing Automation Manager for a 6month long contract.

This position will be responsible for managing the endtoend system usage execution and adoption of Pardot as well as the technical campaign processes. This role will work crossfunctionally with marketing teams IT Sales Sales Operations and vendors around business analysis and discovery workflow and process design requirements definition project management and coordination instance configuration tasks data migration testing training & new feature launches.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drives strategy and optimizations in our Marketing Automation platform Pardot and the integrations to fully utilize its capability and align to our ongoing digital marketing strategy.
• Develops and drives the roadmap and programs needed to drive a bestinclass marketing automation platform that enables and supports customer engagement along the digital buying journey for a global marketing team.
• Manages marketing automation strategies and processes proactively researches and implements the latest best practices and industry standards.
• Develops strategic approach to scalable processes that ensure best practices in campaign tracking and lead flow/score management.
• Analyzes the flow of lead generation to the CRM and collaborates within Marketing Operations and Sales Operations to ensure leads are routed correctly and attributed to the correct campaigns.
• Works with management to define KPIs create reporting analyze campaign performance.
• Evaluates the campaign infrastructure and provides recommendations to continuously improve hierarchy and enable better reporting and ROI.
• Ensures standard QA functions and code reviews for campaigns automation workflows email assets and other customerfacing assets are complete
• Troubleshoot issues and assists the team however necessary to reach lead generation goals.
• Acts as a lead management champion to optimize our lead strategy and execution in partnership with our Marketing Sales Operations and Sales teams.
• Provides expert level knowledge and strategy inputs on the marketing automation platform (Pardot) to ensure the marketing automation platform is optimized to generate score route attribute and report on new qualified lead records.
• Shares best practices around segmentation AB testing targeting and personalization of emails communications to the marketing managers
• Oversees the teams current use of Pardot and Salesforce and identifies and help implement improvement opportunities.
• Acts as marketing automation SME and provides support and training to internal colleagues as needed.
• Oversees the implementation of landing pages to ensure the necessary technical requirements are met including tagging form posting integration with other 3rd party applications like ON24 etc.
• Establishes a strategy for a template/code library of reusable content for personalization a/b testing snippets and ensures usage and adoption across the function
• Creates strategy for custom email preference centers and unsubscribe pages with a general understanding of GDPR and CCPA compliance standards
• Enables the marketing team to build multistep communication journeys that include integrated email and SDR outreach
• Oversees the building and debugging of HTML/CSS for both forms responsive landing pages and email templates that render correctly across mobile and all major email clients and browsers
• Analyzes and interprets business requirements and translate it into actionable changes for optimization and utilization of the platform
• Identifies and manages process improvements including documentation updates end user training management of an annual action plan/roadmap
• Stays aware of all new product releases coming how it may impact our implementation and provides recommendation on when and how we want to adopt new feature/functionalities
• Manages and works closely with the external vendors and internal team to drive a holistic customer experience.
• Participates in projects and performs other duties as assigned.
• Occasional business travel may be required.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Deep understanding of marketing automation platforms (Pardot required) and ability to navigate Salesforce to build and pull reports on specific campaigns to measure ROI.
• Strong understanding of the campaign object in Salesforce and best practices around hierarchies to enable roll up reporting on annual programs and activities.
• Advanced user knowledge of marketing automation best practices including campaign organization design execution measurement.
• Strong understanding of funnel metrics and levers to move the needle on generating qualified leads and accelerating opportunity and pipeline velocity.
• Strong background in and the ability to support the execution of email marketing programs including segmentation testing deployment and continuous evaluation for improvement. Experience with the technical aspects of email marketing preferred.
• Strong project management and communications skills to effectively manage multiple projects with tight deadlines and drive alignment and execution across a global team.
• Able to work remotely and perform under pressure prioritize and deliver results in a demanding and fastpaced environment that requires fresh thinking and innovation.
• Solid understanding of content marketing drip marketing email marketing strategies and tactical best practices.
• Good understanding of how Salesforce works in conjunction with Pardot and background dealing with the campaign object and hierarchies.
• High aptitude to learn and adopt new applications to improve efficiency and generate results.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

• Bachelors Degree required
• Six (6) plus years of professional experience of which three (3) plus years in demand generation/marketing operations.
• Pardot experience required. Current Certified Pardot Specialist preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with B2B Marketing technologies strategic planning and implementation of those technologies and overall adoption and process optimization.
• Experience with HTML CSS to setup automated campaigns and debug pages forms and email content within Pardot when necessary.
• Or equivalent combination of education and/or experience.