Senior Manager, Marketing Operations Fultime

Under Armour has one mission: to make you better. We have a commitment to innovation that lies at the heart of everything we do, not just for our athletes but also for our teammates. As a global organization, our teams around the world push boundaries and think beyond what is expected. Together our teammates are unified by our values and are grounded in our vision to inspire you with performance solutions you never knew you needed but can’t imagine living without.

SUMMARY: Under Armour is looking for a Senior Manager, Marketing Operations EMEA based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The position reports directly to the Sr. Director Marketing for EMEA. The ideal candidate will have a track-record of stakeholder leadership, operational excellence, change management, and brand planning, with strong organizational and communication skills.

The position is responsible for managing the marketing production & go-to-market process to ensure the timely delivery of brand & retail marketing assets. All while working closely with the cross-functional teams, both global & regional, internal, and external to both establish and optimize production processes and effective working across the EMEA regional marketing function.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Marketing Planning & Project management

• Manage marketing processes across the regional marketing organization, across all functions, but in particular: Creative, Category Marketing, Consumer Engagement, Retail Marketing, & E-commerce.

• Own the seasonal marketing calendar and partner with leadership to communicate and manage accountability for campaigns, dates, & deliverables across marketing team

• Project manage the region-specific briefing & approval process, campaign planning & specific creative work-streams

• Forecast Regional Creative workload and recommend in-house / agency allocation for each brief

• Highlight risks to projects ahead of time and take a pro-active, problem solving approach with the team to avoid delays

• Manage the Regional Marketing Ops team, freelancers and creative team from briefing stage to delivery through effective project management to ensure on-time delivery of regional assets.

Go to Market Process

• Lead the go-to-market process from a regional marketing perspective, making sure timely alignment of Merchandising, Channel Marketing and Sales, on key campaigns, looks and athletes

• Drive improvements of the go-to-market process, outlining key meetings, deliverables and milestones.

• Ensure marketing teammates are aware of their responsibilities and deliverables for timely and effective go to market process. Manage dates and gates.

Global Communication

• Partner with global marketing operations team to tie into global process & calendar

• Ensure regional needs are accounted for in process and communicated up & down

• Organize marketing alignment, communication & meeting cadence with marketing functions for all global touchpoints (pitch-backs, share-outs etc.)

Marketing Budget

• Support marketing leadership in forecasting budgets for each marketing function.

• Track the brand budget, ensuring that forecasts are met, invoices are received on time and approved, ensuring alignment and regular communication with the finance team.

• Work with Finance team to ensure marketing team are sufficiently informed and trained to perform budgeting tasks.

Marketing tools & ways of working

• Ensure the Marketing team is trained to use the marketing tools most efficiently; DAM, Asana, Workfront a.o.

• Define Roles and Responsibilities throughout each marketing process, keep the team on track and hold everyone accountable for their tasks.

Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities)

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to lead & communicate effectively with team members across multiple departments.

• Team player, always willing to help people work more efficiently

• Ability to prioritize and work under pressure on multiple projects with different deadlines.

• Confident communicator, ability to address the urgency of tasks and not afraid of speaking up within a group to ensure teammates adhere to process, procedure & production deadlines

• Demonstrated ability of “thinking outside of the box”, when it comes to planning, reporting and information management.

• Technical savvy, always looking for the latest solution when to improve existing ways of working

• Pro-active mindset

• Hands-on mentality

• Flexible, very capable to adapt to changes in processes

• Highly organized and detail oriented

Education And / Or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or related field.

• 8-10 years of experience, in project-, stakeholder- management and brand planning within Europe across sports and/or lifestyle brand(s). (or equivalent combination of education and relation experience).

• 3-5 years of management experience; leading and influencing a team

• Fluency of English, both conversational and written is an essential function.

• Experience working for either a start-up or high-growth organization is a plus.

• Prior experience working for an international brand with a strong, premium and distinct culture.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Vacature Senior Manager, Marketing Operations

• Vacature: Senior Manager, Marketing Operations
• Werkgever: Under Armour
• Locatie: Amsterdam
• Datum vacatureplaatsing: 2022-03-15

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