Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Molex is a company focused on creating connections for life and is part of Koch. The Program Manager, Strategic Marketing will lead complex, cross-functional marketing initiatives, translating strategic objectives into executable plans and coordinating stakeholders across Marketing, Information Technology, and business leadership. The role will manage risks, dependencies, reporting, accountability, and executive visibility across initiatives such as acquisition integration, digital transformation, and marketing technology implementations.
Responsibilities
- Lead large-scale, highly visible marketing initiatives from initiation through completion
- Represent Marketing in enterprise-wide initiatives, advocating for marketing priorities, identifying impacts to marketing teams, and ensuring marketing requirements are incorporated into cross-functional decisions and program plans
- Serve as the primary representative and advocate for Marketing within enterprise programs, ensuring marketing priorities, requirements, and deliverables are effectively integrated into broader business initiatives
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, milestones, dependency maps, decision logs, and risk registers
- Partner closely with non-Marketing stakeholder teams to develop implementation strategies and execution plans
- Translate strategic objectives into clear execution plans and actionable workstreams
- Coordinate work across multiple functional teams to ensure interdependent activities remain aligned and sequenced appropriately
- Align resources, timelines, communications, and stakeholder expectations across technical and business teams
- Monitor progress against key milestones and escalate critical issues when appropriate
- Drive accountability across teams to ensure commitments are met and issues are resolved quickly
- Identify program risks early and implement mitigation strategies before they impact project outcomes
- Facilitate decision-making by bringing the right stakeholders together with the information needed to move forward
- Create executive-ready dashboards, presentations, status reports, and meeting materials
- Provide visibility into project performance, budget considerations, resource constraints, risks, and dependencies
- Deliver concise and actionable updates to senior leadership
- Regularly engage with senior marketing leaders, enterprise program leaders, and integration governance teams to drive decisions, align priorities, and communicate program status
- Build strong working relationships across functions and leadership levels
- Drive consistency in planning, reporting, risk management, and stakeholder engagement
- Identify opportunities to improve planning efficiency, communication, and program execution
- Provide leadership and guidance to project management resources supporting strategic marketing initiatives
Skills
- • 5+ years of project or program management experience
- • Experience managing multiple concurrent workstreams involving numerous stakeholders and competing priorities
- • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, Project Management, or a related field
- • PMP, PgMP, Scrum, Agile, or equivalent project management certification preferred
- • Experience with Smartsheet, Wrike, or similar enterprise project management platforms
- • Demonstrated experience supporting or leading complex marketing initiatives like acquisitions or digital transformation projects
- • E xperience leading multiple acquisition integration programs and enterprise transformation initiatives involving Marketing, IT, and commercial stakeholders
- • Experience working with executive leadership and steering committees
- • Strong understanding of marketing organizations, marketing operations, and cross-functional business processes
- • Exceptional verbal, written, facilitation, and presentation skills
- • Proven ability to influence outcomes without direct authority
- • Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- • Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments and create structure where it does not exist
Benefits
- Variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Flexible spending and health savings accounts
- Life insurance
- ADD
- Disability
- Retirement
- Paid vacation/time off
- Educational assistance
- May also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance
- Open to remote
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