Senior Marketing Project Manager, Go-To-Market
World Vision USA
The Intersection of Calling and Career
Join World Vision as Senior Marketing Project Manager, Go-To-Market
01 At a Glance
Role: Senior Project Manager, Go-To-Market
Level: Mid-Level
Job Design: GTM Implementation Planning and Management – 60%, Project Management of Key Annual Campaigns – 30%, Reporting Back – 10%.
Must-Have Experience: A Bachelor’s degree or 8 years of equivalent work experience. You also have at least 5 years work experience in project management and marketing or a closely related field. As part of this experience, we’re needing a minimum of 3 years of project management experience. A natural ability to build and maintain excellent relationships with a variety of teams and people across all levels of an organization including senior leaders.
Nice-To-Have Experience: Previous supervisory work experience as well as project management certification (e.g. Project Management Professional – PMP Certification).
Location: Prefer Federal Way, WA (near Seattle) but willing to consider a remote work arrangement.
Salary Range: Your salary is important to you so it’s important to us. If you need the approximate range to inform your decision on whether to apply or not contact Chad using one of the ways below. We have a robust and comprehensive benefits package to round out our total compensation package. Click here to learn more.
Benefits: Yes.
Company Size: 900+ (World Vision USA) / 37,000 worldwide (World Vision International)
02 The Job At World Vision USA we invite people to positively impact the lives of the world’s most vulnerable children through charitable giving. Our approach includes love of all people, thriftiness, and targeting the root causes of poverty to bring about human transformation and lasting change.
As Senior Project Manager, Go-To-Market your expertise will be brought to bear on work that is close to the heart of God (in the spirit of Matthew 25:34-40). See yourself playing a pivotal role in bringing our marketing plans to life to help inspire donors to partner with us and deliver transformational experiences and impact. You will join a team of passionate individuals who are “all-in” to impact the lives of the world’s most vulnerable children, families and communities. A new effort to strengthen marketing implementation and execution will be led by a group of individuals representing all key functions. That’s where you come in! We are searching for a strong project leader who can foster collaboration, influence cross functional teams to achieve buy-in, establish milestones, and hold teams accountable to their outcomes. If you are an outstanding communicator and effective influencer, someone who understands the importance of buy-in, and you possess the skills to work in a fast-paced hybrid work environment and able to juggle multiple priorities while keeping focused on the big picture, then come and join our team!
You’ll report to and work in close collaboration with the Senior Director of Segment & Product Marketing and be part of our 9-person team of passionate product and segment marketers, as well as our Mass Implementation Team of professionals that crosses sales, marketing, and support teams.
You’ll be joining the team that flipped the script on child sponsorship with the introduction of Chosen®, recognized by AdWeek, MediaPost, Upworthy, Christianity Today and winner of two 2020 ANA REGGIE Awards. And fundamental to your life: you’re inspired by your faith in Jesus to love God and love your neighbors. Does this sound like you? Want to be a part of creating the future of this incredible organization? We’d love to hear from you.
03 What success looks like (1) Drive successful execution of our annual GTM Implementation Plan by understanding the context and goals of the Mass Marketing Plan, then tracking and reporting on marketing implementation plans across Mass Marketing teams. (2) Create and sustain strong relationships across all stakeholders, including but not limited to; the Mass Implementation Team, product marketing teams, sales teams, and support teams. (3) Create long and short-term project plans, including setting targets for milestones by partnering with working teams to build work-back plans. (4) Identify and introduce tools to support virtual collaboration and project tracking (e.g. whiteboarding, visualization tools, project dashboards, virtual real-time discussions, etc.) to successfully execute plans. (5) Assist in the collection of data and production of reports designed to support the analysis of the GTM plan performance.
04 Where this job could take your career World Vision USA is a part of the larger World Vision International partnership. Globally, we have over 37,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries. Just over 900 of us call World Vision USA home. You’ll have opportunities to advance within our robust and talented group of professionals as you continue to stretch and grow your career for the future.
05 About World Vision USA When you work at World Vision, your passions and talents come together to meet the greatest needs in the world today. We go to ends of the earth and into the margins. Where few go and the road is less traveled. Because Jesus is alive in the hardest places to be a child. We are dangerously soft-hearted. But just the right kind of dangerous. That’s because we’re a global Christian humanitarian organization. We partner with children, families, and their communities to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. We empower people out of poverty. For real. For good. For nearly the last 70 years. Jesus’ love at the center. Always. We’re Christian and follow Jesus’ example to show unconditional love to the poor and oppressed. Serving every child we can regardless of faith. Are you feeling called to explore joining us? We hope so.
06 You Bring A Bachelor’s degree or 8 years of equivalent work experience. You also have at least 5 years work experience in project management and marketing or a closely related field. As part of this experience, we’re needing a minimum of 3 years of project management experience. A natural ability to build and maintain excellent relationships with a variety of teams and people across all levels of an organization including senior leaders. While not required, Previous supervisory work experience as well as project management certification (e.g. Project Management Professional – PMP Certification) could be an added plus.
07 Let your work be your faith in action Every day, nearly 14,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable causes. Our call to action is urgent. That’s why we’re looking for someone who is ready to place their expertise behind helping the world’s most vulnerable children. Every marketing campaign launched and email sent can help influence whether someone chooses to help today or not. If not you, then who?
08 Salary Range & Benefits Your salary is important to you so it’s important to us. If you need the approximate range to inform your decision on whether to apply or not contact Chad using one of the ways below. In addition, we have a robust and comprehensive benefits package to round out our total compensation package.
09 To Apply Press the apply button on this page. Still not sure? We’d really like to hear from you, even if it’s just to ask some questions about. Message Chad in Talent Acquisition at 253-815-2216 or ckopkas@worldvision.org. Connect with me on LinkedIn.
10 What happens next?
Glad you asked. We owe you that and strive to not leave you wondering. We review applications nearly every day assessing strength of fit for the role. Sometimes questions arise on our end so we message you to learn more. Short-listed candidates are contacted for an initial phone conversation with our recruiting staff. Moving deeper into our selection process you can expect to interview 1:1 with a hiring manager. Finalists normally participate in a panel interview where the opportunity to meet additional members of our staff lends itself to more of a 360-view of the role. Our most valuable resource is our talented staff. Our goal is to fill this vacancy with the right person in the shortest amount of time, so we have all hands-on deck to move this important work forward.
Job Location: Prefer Federal Way, WA (near Seattle) but willing to consider a remote work arrangement., United States
Position Type: Full-Time/Regular
Working Environment / Conditions: Standard office environment
