Job description
Global Partner Marketing (GPM) is passionate about driving opportunities for growth and profitability for our partner community while optimizing our investments and programs for maximum return. In this role, you’ll lead the Activate program’s day-to-day project management and special projects. This includes supporting the Activate team in planning, implementing, results reporting, and interacting with the global Demand Activation team, regional collaborators in the Americas, APJC, and EMEAR, external agencies (vendors), and partners (when required in the GPM special projects).
What You’ll Do:
Performance & Operations
- Assist regional Activation Managers with planning, budgeting, and execution strategy, including management of centralized global agencies and tactics (including SLAs, performance metrics, etc.). Responsible for keeping the Activate team’s quarterly cycle cadence from planning to reporting. Participate in Activate and extended team meetings. Assist the Global Partner Marketing Activation Lead with the budget process, monitoring, tracking, and reporting on both Opex and Contra budget expenditures within regions. Assist Activation Managers with the leads upload process (MLUT updates and versioning, validating PENs, keeping track of leads for Activate campaigns) and validating data in reporting dashboards.
Global strategy & continuous improvement
- Map, standardize and optimize processes and workflows to be implemented across regions, crafting more cohesive global operations. Improve the program performance tracking and reporting processes by leading project management efforts across new tools and dashboards. Responsible for the tactics’ innovations, vendors’ evaluation & performance, standards, and cycle for developing and onboarding new vendors in partnership with procurement. Assess and supervise program feedback from partners and propose improvements to increase its adoption.
Campaign Activation
- Be the project manager for special pilots and cross-GPM campaigns, collaborating with the Regional Partner Activation Managers to engage with the local PMMs whenever needed, aligning the partners’ selection, activation processes, and execution, guaranteeing the campaigns will be delivered on time in full and results reported out accordingly. Understand cross-GPM objectives and needs to provide digital marketing consultation and propose marketing activations that match them.
Who You’ll Work With:
You’ll collaborate with the Global Partner Marketing team, the Demand Activation Team, the Regional Activation Managers, and PMMs, to help lead and optimize the Activate program to improve its results and increase program adoption. You’ll also work closely with the Insights & Analytics organization to support the enablement across the Partner Marketing ecosystem.
Who You Are
We are seeking someone with leadership, communication, and organization skills with outstanding experience in digital marketing and project management.
- Good knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring, and controlling programs, with the ability to create and meet targets, project management, and reporting.
- Ability to build, trial, document, and deliver new processes to facilitate ease of operations.
- Sufficient knowledge and credibility to advise regional teams on their efforts in relation to the program and find ways to optimize performance and address problems
- Experienced working with cross-functional teams as a strong collaborator and strategic partner
- Good knowledge of program and project management tools, including but not limited to Asana, Smartsheet, SharePoint, etc.
- Knowledge of budgeting and prioritization procedures
- Interest and appetite for data-driven marketing, ABM strategies, and data visualization
Qualifications
- 1-3 years experience in the IT Channel, working directly with partners in a marketing capacity
- BS/BA in Business, Marketing, or Communications or related experience preferred
- 6+ years of B2B Marketing and Communications experience, preferably in tech
- 3+ years of partner program or partner marketing experience
- Shown ability to translate business and partner program priorities into effective marketing and communications; strong writing skill a plus (digital marketing success with modern marketing skills).
- Shown success with deep project & program management
Why Cisco?
#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters – with people like you!
Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We’re the Internet’s optimists. Our technology makes sure the data travelling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it’s not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We’re helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We’re helping businesses of all shapes and size to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world – whether through 5G, or otherwise.
We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognise our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another – from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).
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