Director, Marketing Ops

Primary Purpose:
- Executes rollout and adherence of brand marketing process and marketing tech stack
- Manages annual/seasonal calendar (pmo tracker) for all creative projects
- Includes dates for strategy, briefing, creative development and campaign activation
- Incorporates key milestones, timelines, pencil down moments, and owners into seasonal calendar
- Partner with peers in merch and creative ops to ensure calendars and process maps align
- Develops effective communication processes to inform the cross-functional teams about project progress, roadmaps and key deliverables
- Provides visibility to milestones, enforces adherence through timely reporting and SLAs
- Shares weekly updates on timelines at risk
- Liaise with key stakeholders to understand and resolve bottlenecks
- Communicates key dates and milestones to our global partners
- Calendarizes key-interlock meetings- pre and post shoot
- Leads seasonal creative needs, capacity assessment
- Work with Brand Marketing to strengthen process and governance around prioritization and allocation of Creative resources based on consumer insights and alignment to marketing strategic pillars
- Supports VP to analyze resources and make recommendations for monthly workload prioritization
- Partner with Brand Marketing to buildout/enhancement of toolkit (annual game plan calendar, integrated briefing template, quarterly marketing plan)

Experience

- 10+ years of relevant professional marketing experience - project management, strategy
- Managerial experience within a marketing function in Fashion Retail
- Experience in leading process redesign
- Change management experience

Skills

- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build effective partnerships
- Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization
- Ability to interact successfully with diverse individuals at all levels
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Drive for results and action.
- Ability to operate with high levels of ambiguity and to deal with significant change
- Excellent attention to detail, superior communication, customer service and follow-up skills

Our Competencies for All Employees
- Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
- Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
- Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
- Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
- Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish; seldom gives up before finishing, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks.
- Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
Our Competencies for All People Managers
- Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
- Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong moraleand spirit in theirteam; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
- Managerial Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.

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