Sr. Marketing Governance Strategy Manager

Sr. Marketing Governance Strategy Manager

Company: Kia America, Inc. Location: Irvine, CA, US

The Sr. Marketing Governance Strategy Manager serves as the strategic integration lead within the Marketing organization, ensuring enterprise marketing priorities are translated into structured, executable plans across teams and channels. This role partners with Marketing leadership during strategy development cycles to provide feasibility, sequencing, and prioritization input, helping ensure that strategic initiatives are operationally realistic and cross-functionally aligned. Operating at the intersection of strategy and execution, the role establishes integrated roadmaps, aligns interdependencies, and maintains governance mechanisms that improve predictability, reduce execution risk, and strengthen enterprise-wide coordination. By bringing structure, visibility, and disciplined planning to the marketing portfolio, this position ensures that strategies are not only well-defined, but executable and sustainably delivered.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Priority One – 30% Strategic Planning Integration & Development
• Priority Two – 25% Enterprise Alignment & Governance Cadence
• Priority Three – 20% Change & Impact Management
• Priority Four – 15% Strategic Reporting Specification & Decision Support Infrastructure
• Priority Five – 10% Planning Standards & Continuous Improvement

Qualifications/Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required. Masters or MBA is a plus.

Job Requirement: 8+ years of experience in marketing operations, integrated marketing planning, or project management within a cross-functional marketing organization. 5+ years of experience working in production, media, PR, experiential, and/or partnerships workstreams highly preferred. Experience defining reporting requirements and translating data into clear, executive-level insights and recommendations. Automotive OEM experience is preferred.

Specialized Skills and Knowledge Required:

• Strategy-to-execution planning: translate priorities into clear plans and actions.
• Advanced Excel/PowerPoint; familiarity with planning tools and execution logs (risks/decisions/dependencies).
• Governance cadence discipline with early risk visibility and follow-through.
• Cross-functional stakeholder management (teams, agencies, HQ/regions).
• Integrated planning/program management across milestones, approvals, and dependencies (incl. change impacts).
• Executive-ready communication (written/verbal summaries and recommendations).
• Analytical problem-solving: synthesize data, surface tradeoffs, recommend actions.
• Budget/financial systems familiarity.

Competencies: Care for People, Chase Excellence Every Day, Dare to Push Boundaries, Empower People to Act, Move Further Together

Pay Range: $108,698.72 - $146,709

Equal Employment Opportunities: KUS provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, including pregnancy and childbirth and related medical conditions, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, legally protected physical disability or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, family care or medical leave status, protected veteran or military status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.