Marketing Operations, Advisor

**Remote Work: Hybrid**

**Overview**:
At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working to make everyday life better. United by curiosity and care, we develop dynamic solutions that anticipate our customer’s and partner’s needs and solve their challenges.

Being a part of Zebra Nation means being seen, heard, valued, and respected. Drawing from our unique perspectives, we collaborate to deliver on our purpose. Here you are a part of a team pushing boundaries to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve.

You have opportunities to learn and lead at a forward-thinking company, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes that you care about - locally and globally. We’ve only begun reimagining the future - for our people, our customers, and the world.

As a key supporter of the Global Marketing team, the Marketing Operations Advisor drives focus on the most impactful business activities, optimizes deployment of resources,and enhances marketing performance. The Marketing Operations Advisor is responsible for marketing planning, managing financial operations, organizational performance reporting,and regional marketing reviews.

**Responsibilities**:

- Supports the marketing planning process, driving the strategic and tactical planning cadence for their stakeholder group
- Strategy planning
- Investment management
- Reporting chief staff
- Coordinates annual Marketing goal setting and tracks progress against KPIs
- Partners with budget owners to coordinate planning for program spend budget, aligning investment allocations with marketing strategic plans
- Works with budget owners and finance to ensure projects are completed timely and accounted for in compliance with financial requirements; Conducts post-closing variance analysis
- Partners with marketing stakeholders as well as the Global Marketing Operations team for investment reporting, benchmarking, and analytics initiatives
- Drives accountability by maintaining performance management dashboards and developing executive reports which provide insights into marketing results and business impacts
- Supports development of training programs to enhance business IQ across the Marketing organization
- Coordinates business reviews and provides performance reports in support of Sales Quarterly Business Reviews and Global Marketing reporting
- Supports strategic projects including transformational and cross-functional projects
- organized
good communication

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in a business discipline
- 8+ years’ experience in operations or marketing in a B2B company, ideally in a high tech and/or channel driven business
- Proactive, dependable, self-starter that thrives in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to lead through influence and collaborate effectively across functions and global teams
- Superior organizational skills with ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting commitments and deadlines, and influencing others to do the same
- Maintains strong relationships with key stakeholders
- Process improvement-oriented change agent with strong change management skills
- Strong interpersonal and senior management level communication skills
- Successful track record of facilitating planning and executing strategic & tactical plans that are integrated and aligned with the rest of the organization and the corporate strategy
- Strong project management skills including scheduling, resource allocation, risk/issue management
- Ability to interpret strategies and extract insights from data, creating tangible, accurate, data-rich reporting to drive critical discussions and decisions
- Ability to partner with finance to manage administration needs and account for budgets
- Basic understanding of financial principles including expense recognition, pre-paids, and accruals
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience with marketing resource management tools, Salesforce, Power BI or Oracle ERP a plus

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- ** Strong financial acumen.**:

- ** Comfortable with budgeting.**:

- ** Forecasting.**:

- ** Financial analysis.**:

- ** Experience with data-driven decision-making,**:

- **Comfortable using tools like Excel and power point.