Marketing Operations Manager

Placement Type:


Temporary

Salary:


$54-60 Hourly

Start Date:


Aug 24, 2026

Join a prominent organization renowned for its innovative approach and significant impact within its industry. As a key partner, Aquent is seeking a highly organized and collaborative professional to contribute to a dynamic team at the forefront of marketing operations. This is an exceptional opportunity to make a tangible impact on how strategic marketing efforts come to life, ensuring seamless execution, championing cutting-edge technologies, and directly shaping how initiatives are delivered across the organization.


Are you ready to be a pivotal force in shaping how strategic marketing efforts come to life? We are looking for a key contributor who thrives on blending program office support, team operations, and emerging enablement work. This incredible opportunity allows you to enhance operational excellence, enable strategic growth, and ensure the seamless execution of marketing initiatives within a forward-thinking environment. You'll play a crucial role in optimizing processes and fostering innovation, directly influencing the success of vital marketing functions and making a tangible impact on the delivery of key programmatic outcomes.


What You'll Do

• Streamline critical review and approval processes, supporting ongoing governance and facilitating submissions from diverse stakeholders to ensure efficient workflows.
• Actively gather and assess use cases and feedback, exploring new platforms and capabilities to continuously enhance marketing effectiveness.
• Champion marketing-wide coordination, communications, education, and enablement initiatives, fostering a culture of continuous innovation and improvement.
• Develop and execute robust change management activities, ensuring the successful adoption of new processes and technologies across the team.
• Contribute to the development and ongoing maintenance of project portfolio governance, meticulously documenting processes, tools, standards, and templates.
• Efficiently manage intake requests by reviewing submissions, validating completeness, and collaborating with requestors to ensure comprehensive information for prioritization and strategic decision-making.
• Support essential planning and reporting activities, preparing comprehensive meeting materials, executive-level updates, and leadership-ready summaries.
• Assist with critical annual and quarterly portfolio planning, consolidating inputs and organizing materials for strategic review.
• Support the development and seamless rollout of operational tools, templates, and process documentation to enhance team enablement and ensure strict adherence to standards.
• Assist with monthly and quarterly team reporting, synthesizing accomplishments, challenges, opportunities, and risks into clear, leadership-ready updates.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2-5 years of experience in marketing operations, program management, or a related operational role.
• Proven experience supporting intake, planning, or governance processes within a marketing or technology environment.
• Strong written communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to prepare leadership-ready materials.
• Comfort working across diverse teams and effectively managing multiple priorities with meticulous attention to detail.
• High flexibility and adaptability when switching tasks across disparate areas of focus.
• Highly independent, with the ability to activate with incomplete information or limited context.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• A keen interest in emerging technologies and capabilities; direct experience is a valuable plus but not a requirement.

About Aquent Talent


Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.


Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!


Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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