Marketing Operations Specialist

**General Information**:

- Req #
- WD00075187
- Career area:

- Marketing
- Country/Region:

- Colombia
- State:

- Cundinamarca
- City:

- BOGOTA DC
- Date:

- Friday, January 17, 2025
- Working time:

- Full-time

**Additional Locations**:

- Colombia - Cundinamarca - BOGOTA DC

**Why Work at Lenovo**:

- We are Lenovo. We do what we say. We own what we do. We WOW our customers.

Lenovo is a US$57 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #248 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY).

**Description and Requirements**:
We are looking for a Marketing Operations Specialist, within Latin America Marketing Operations Team.

The purpose of this role is to increase marketing efficiency and excellence by reinforcing budget governance with processes, partnerships, tracking and leading weekly meetings with the country marketing teams.

Budget governance is critical for helping the marketing organization optimize investment and limit financial risk.

**Key Responsibilities & Performance Expectations**:

- Responsible for communicating the guidelines and governance of the marketing process to the local marketing teams. This role is involved along the entire process from planning to budgeting, approvals of plans, sourcing, execution, proof of executions and reporting.
- ANAPLAN (Marketing cloud-based platform for planning & budgeting) operations including budget campaign loading and purchase requisitions creations under compliance.
- Support marketing team with procurement process.
- Ariba Invoicing management:

- Checking Invoice and proof of work delivered by the vendor.
- Invoice approval responsibilities.
- Regular spend tracking and weekly follow up meetings with country marketing team to ensure full utilization of the gross marketing budget (net + alliance budget).
- Maintain effective tracking system to provide early visibility of plan deviations and risk.
- Responsible for the tracking of alliance plans approvals before executions. Ensure marketing activities are executed with plans approved by correspondent budget owners on time and with purchase order issued.
- Alliances funding guidelines knowledge.
- Responsible to track Alliance proof of executions.
- Reporting: Ability to analyze multiple reports to track budget, plans, invoices and alliances POEs.
- Develop and maintain the country marketing team calendar reflecting key initiatives, deadlines & team meetings.
- Point of contact related to tools used by marketing. User creation and/or issues related.
- Coordinate weekly calls with the teams to go through marketing plans and activities approvals, proof of executions from alliances funded activities and budget.

**Qualifications**:

- 2-3 years’ experience in operations, administration, or project management.
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Proficient in English, with strong data entry and written communication skills.
- Strong Knowledge of MS Excel.
- Detail-oriented, which is essential for excelling in this role.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and effectively manage projects.
- Process oriented mindset.
- Power BI is a plus.

**Additional Locations**:

- Colombia - Cundinamarca - BOGOTA DC
- Colombia
- Colombia - Cundinamarca
- Colombia - Cundinamarca - BOGOTA DC