Marketing Project Manager in Portland, Oregon - #73175 | VanderHouwen

Description

Job Id: 73175

Marketing Project Manager
Our client is seeking an experienced Marketing Project Manager to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives with a strong focus on marketing and campaign delivery. The ideal candidate brings a structured yet adaptable approach to project management, with the ability to translate business needs into actionable plans, navigate competing priorities, and keep multiple concurrent projects moving toward successful outcomes.

This role is a hybrid model in Portland, Oregon.

Marketing Project Manager Responsibilities

• Lead multiple concurrent projects and marketing initiatives from planning through completion, managing scope, timelines, budgets, resources, dependencies, deliverables, and desired outcomes.
• Develop comprehensive project plans and roadmaps, translating business requirements into clear objectives, milestones, priorities, and actionable workstreams.
• Coordinate cross-functional resources and stakeholders, negotiate resource availability, facilitate alignment, and proactively identify and address potential bottlenecks.
• Manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and change control processes, escalating concerns appropriately and developing mitigation strategies to maintain delivery commitments.
• Oversee marketing campaign workflows across channels such as digital, social media, email, events, and public relations, coordinating activities throughout the campaign lifecycle from initial brief through launch and measurement.
• Monitor project performance, quality, budgets, and delivery metrics, providing clear status reporting and visibility into overall project health.
• Facilitate project meetings, stakeholder discussions, and decision-making while effectively navigating competing priorities, ambiguity, constraints, and trade-offs.
• Maintain accurate and complete project documentation, including plans, budgets, risk and issue tracking, decisions, changes, and other required records.
• Support the continued development and consistent application of project management methodologies, standards, tools, templates, and governance practices.
• Drive continuous improvement across project delivery processes, identifying opportunities to strengthen efficiency, stakeholder engagement, risk management, quality, and overall outcomes.

Marketing Project Manager Qualifications

• 5 or more years of project management experience with demonstrated success leading multiple complex, simultaneous projects involving cross-functional teams.
• Experience managing marketing projects or campaigns, with an understanding of the campaign lifecycle and familiarity with digital, social media, email, events, public relations, or other marketing channels.
• Strong project planning skills, including experience managing scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, change control, and project performance.
• Excellent communication, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build credibility and influence across organizational levels.
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving abilities with excellent attention to detail and the ability to identify potential challenges before they affect delivery.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments, prioritize competing demands, and guide teams toward practical decisions and achievable outcomes.
• Familiarity with cross-channel direct marketing concepts, including audience targeting, business rules, campaign testing, and iterative optimization.
• Understanding of project governance, process improvement, and change management principles.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, marketing, or a related field preferred.
• Project management certification, such as PMP or a comparable credential, preferred.
• Utilities experience is preferred.

Compensation: (DOE)

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