Director, Global Marketing Project Management

Role Description

As Director, Global Marketing Project Management, you’ll lead critical processes, initiatives, and programs across Creative, Integrated Brand Marketing, Sports Marketing, Retail, Brand Communications, Social, and Strategy teams. Your goal is to drive continual process improvement, capacity management, and ensure timely service delivery within budget and scope. You’ll operationalize marketing’s strategy and creative deliverables, scale the team’s operating model, and create efficient, effective, and highly integrated ways of working both internally and with global agency partners.

Your Impact

• Lead the Project Management function for Global Marketing, driving operations for all cross-functional workflows toward coordinated and successful execution of GTM processes.
• Supervise and develop a team of Project Managers, fostering a strong team culture and working environment that lives up to Deckers values.
• Build and maintain Creative Operations infrastructure, including capacity planning, creative resourcing, vendor management, and functional capabilities.
• Manage workflow, requests, and capacity to flawlessly deliver all marketing support efforts, evaluating and prioritizing jobs based on department capacity.
• Develop, analyze, and continually optimize marketing operations processes and programs by working closely with senior leadership.
• Build and optimize cross-functional resources, including software and project management technology, intake, working documents, roles and responsibilities, communication flow, escalation plans, etc.
• Create and maintain annual functional calendars and project management tracking tools for visibility and alignment across the Global Marketing Org.
• Build systems and processes for scalable and measurable project timelines, collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet execution timing.
• Monitor feedback from stakeholders to improve cross-functional integration and promote efficiency by analyzing workflow performance and identifying key metrics.
• Build strong relationships with agencies and outside vendors to implement process and accountability.
• Practice continuous improvement, supporting and contributing to evolving marketing operations processes.
• Anticipate project needs across the organization and proactively seek information to lead team members toward solutions.
• Maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders and senior management, keeping them informed of conflicts, delays, or other issues.
• Maintain weekly project reports and provide status updates to ensure projects are moving forward.
• Analyze, summarize, and develop conclusions, recommending improvements to increase efficiency and output.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree minimum in Business, Marketing, Communications, or Advertising.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in project management within Marketing and Communications for a consumer brand; experience in consumer goods, footwear, or sportswear industries preferred.
• Strong brand experience working effectively in complex, matrixed, global organizations.
• Proven planning and operational execution skill set with the ability to ideate solutions and drive projects to successful conclusion.
• 5+ years leading a team of 5+ direct reports.
• Background in operations, strategy, content creation, and campaign development.
• Experience building scalable models and systems to support team growth.
• Successful track record working with internal creative studios and external vendors & agency partners.
• Systems admin experience and knowledge of platform integrations.
• Proven track record in effective process, project, budget, and team management.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills to educate and gain buy-in from cross-functional stakeholders.
• Deliverables planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Innovative thinker with experience building scalable models for rapid growth.
• Strong team leadership skills, inspiring learning and excellence among team members.
• Ability to use independent judgment in performing all duties.
• Ability to manage multiple large initiatives and assemble multi-disciplined teams.
• Good understanding of global & regional marketing challenges and cross-cultural agility.
• Strong attention to detail and adaptability to changes along the project life cycle.
• Ability to persuade and negotiate among multiple divisions.
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Knowledge of design, campaign development, and production processes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to travel domestically.
• Proficiency with project management tools.

Benefits

• Competitive Pay and Bonuses: We’ve created a variety of competitive compensation programs to foster career development, reward success and to show our employees just how much they’re valued.
• Financial Planning and wellbeing: Our plans provide powerful ways to protect income, pay for expenses and invest in the future.
• Time away from work: Our plans support our employees’ needs to get out, get healthy and come back stronger than ever.
• Extras, discounts and perks: From generous discounts to community-based programs, we offer a variety of cool extras.
• Growth and Development: We offer extensive opportunities and support for personal and professional development.
• Health and Wellness: Our comprehensive health and wellness programs aim to support a healthy lifestyle.