Global Programs Activation Manager (Marketing)

An Exciting Opportunity for a Program Manager with one of the Leading Tech Companies.

Title: Program Manager - Global Programs Activation (Marketing)

Location: London, UK (Remote)

Job Description:

• We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Program Manager to join our dynamic Program's team.
• The Program Manager will play a critical role in planning, executing, and monitoring various projects related to programs being designed and implemented by the Global Programs Team.
• The ideal candidate possesses exceptional leadership, communication, and organizational skills, along with a proven track record of successfully managing complex projects from inception to completion.
• The position requires strong critical-thinking and organizational skills, a strong understanding of the ad industry and cross-functional management experience.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with various cross-functional leads across Marketing, Sales, Partnerships, Legal, Policy, and Communications to ensure alignment and collaborative thought partnership in development and execution of partner programs
• Directly lead cross-functional initiatives, work with broad cross-functional internal teams to ensure tracking of dependent stakeholder readiness plans including: reporting key milestones status, risks and contingency planning and issue escalation as necessary
• Anticipate bottlenecks, balance business objectives and needs versus technical and operational constraints and adjudicate between internal stakeholder groups to resolve blocking issues
• Build organizational maturity by setting best practices, knowledge sharing and continuous learning across the Business Ecosystem Partnerships organization
• Manage information cadences and processes, including status updates to executive leaders, escalations and mitigations and overall documentation management
• Partner with internal stakeholders to inspire and educate on available advertising partner programs, opportunities and materials
• Work closely with Data Science and Analytics teams to determine return on investment and measure efficacy of programs, developing insights driven processes
• Effectively manage complex projects across multiple program management, engineering, product and marketing organizations

Skills:

• Self-starter, comfortable prioritizing work streams and communicating these priorities to leadership and stakeholders
• Strong operational background - bringing teams and functions together to increase efficiency
• Comfortable working with a global team and an understanding of regional nuances; previous experience with global activations a plus
• Experience with east-west coordination, and relationship management across levels
• Ability to handle the pace and ambiguity that comes with working in a start-up environment
• Experience managing budgets both for individual activations and on a larger scale
• Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, attention to detail and interpersonal skills.
• Strong knowledge of computer software, such as MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, Visio etc.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Communications, Marketing, or related field