Marketing Manager

Location
Tempe,AZ

Description

ESC has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Marketing Manager to support a global sponsorship and business development organization. This 9-month contract role will serve as the operational lead for demand generation programs, overseeing the day-to-day execution of integrated marketing campaigns designed to drive awareness, engagement, leads, and revenue across a global partner audience.

The Marketing Manager will serve as the primary point of contact for demand generation projects, managing multiple workstreams, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, and overseeing a team of contingent resources supporting email operations, reporting/analytics, and copywriting. This is an individual contributor position with team oversight responsibilities and is ideal for someone who excels at program management, stakeholder communication, campaign operations, and keeping complex projects moving forward.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact and owner for demand generation projects, coordinating priorities, timelines, deliverables, and stakeholder communication.
• Manage multiple integrated marketing programs simultaneously across email, web, social, sales materials, and other channels.
• Oversee contingent team members supporting email operations, reporting/analytics, and copywriting by providing direction, removing blockers, and ensuring quality deliverables.
• Review and provide final approval for demand generation deliverables before they go to market, ensuring accuracy, quality, and alignment with campaign objectives.
• Partner with campaign operations resources responsible for email execution to ensure campaigns remain aligned with broader demand generation timelines and goals.
• Drive end-to-end project management for campaigns supporting global sponsorship programs, including major events, industry programs, summits, and other marketing initiatives.
• Maintain existing program management and operating mechanisms, including Airtable planning tools, editorial calendars, dashboards, project trackers, and reporting cadences.
• Lead regular team meetings, 1:1s, agency meetings, and cross-functional coordination meetings to maintain alignment and address project needs.
• Partner with reporting and analytics resources to review campaign performance, develop wrap-up reports, track renewal metrics, and provide regular performance updates to leadership.
• Use data, customer research, and campaign metrics to evaluate program effectiveness and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Coordinate with marketing, brand, sponsorship program leads, regional stakeholders, vendors, and external agencies.
• Identify project risks, escalate issues when appropriate, and drive resolution to keep campaigns on schedule.
• Provide clear project status updates, recommendations, and risk assessments to senior stakeholders.
• Ensure marketing programs are executed on time, accurately, and according to established quality standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional marketing and demand generation experience.
• 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional marketing projects or programs involving multiple stakeholders.
• Experience with demand generation campaign operations and email marketing execution.
• Experience managing or overseeing vendors, contingent workers, agencies, or matrixed team members.
• Experience using data, customer research, and marketing metrics to evaluate campaign performance and make recommendations.
• Experience with CRM and marketing technology platforms used for demand generation.
• Experience with marketing analytics or reporting tools such as Tableau, R, SAS, or similar platforms.
• Experience with Excel, including data manipulation, charts, pivot tables, and reporting.
• Experience building, executing, and scaling cross-functional marketing programs from concept through completion.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage complex timelines and multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to provide concise and effective stakeholder updates.
• Experience with project tracking and program management tools; familiarity with Airtable is preferred.
• Experience in B2B technology marketing, cloud services, sponsorship marketing, partnership marketing, or a related environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Marketo or another enterprise marketing automation platform.
• Marketo certification or comparable marketing technology expertise.
• Experience managing external agency relationships and holding agencies accountable for timelines, deliverables, and quality.
• Experience working with distributed teams across multiple time zones and regions.
• Experience developing and executing campaigns across multiple regions, languages, or markets.
• Experience with sponsorship or partnership programs involving external customers or business partners.
• Experience communicating project status, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership or executive stakeholders.
• PMP, PgMP, or similar project management certification.
• Familiarity with SharePoint, WorkDocs, or similar collaboration and document management platforms.