Marketing Project Manager in Westminster, Colorado - #72438 | VanderHouwen

Description

Job Id: 72438

Marketing Project Manager
Our client is seeking a highly organized and strategic Marketing Project Manager to lead the execution of complex, cross-functional initiatives that drive business and marketing outcomes. This role is ideal for a proactive self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, brings structure to fast-moving environments, and can confidently manage multiple workstreams across a highly matrixed organization while keeping stakeholders aligned, timelines on track, and priorities moving forward.

This role is a hybrid model in Westminster, Colorado or Lake Oswego, Oregon.

Marketing Project Manager Responsibilities

• Lead the full lifecycle management of complex marketing programs, initiatives, and campaigns from project intake through planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.
• Build and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, milestones, budgets, resource plans, and deliverable tracking to ensure successful execution.
• Partner closely with project sponsors and cross-functional stakeholders to define scope, business objectives, project requirements, dependencies, and success metrics.
• Drive collaboration across multiple teams including product management, digital, finance, platform, operations, revenue marketing, and other business partners.
• Manage multiple concurrent initiatives with competing priorities in a fast-paced, highly matrixed environment.
• Identify project risks, roadblocks, resource constraints, and dependencies early, developing mitigation strategies to minimize disruption.
• Establish and optimize workflows, project governance, and execution processes to improve operational efficiency and team effectiveness.
• Analyze existing project management processes and recommend enhancements through scenario planning, workflow modeling, and proactive gap identification.
• Prepare and deliver clear project communications, executive updates, progress reporting, and stakeholder status summaries.
• Coordinate with internal teams and external vendors as needed to ensure requirements, timelines, and deliverables are successfully met.
• Facilitate accountability across project teams to ensure deadlines, commitments, and business objectives are achieved.
• Quickly shift between projects and priorities while maintaining strong attention to detail and execution quality.

Marketing Project Manager Qualifications

• 5–7+ years of project or program management experience, preferably supporting complex enterprise initiatives in marketing, technology, digital, or cross-functional business environments.
• Proven experience managing large-scale, highly complex projects across matrixed organizations with multiple stakeholders and interconnected workstreams.
• Strong ability to operate independently as a self-starter with minimal oversight, bringing structure and momentum to ambiguous or evolving initiatives.
• Experience developing and managing project budgets, timelines, resource plans, and execution frameworks.
• Demonstrated success influencing cross-functional stakeholders and serving as a central connector across teams to drive alignment and execution.
• Strong problem-solving, strategic thinking, and process improvement capabilities with the ability to identify inefficiencies and implement scalable solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including experience presenting project updates and recommendations to stakeholders and leadership.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced environments with shifting priorities, tight deadlines, and multiple simultaneous initiatives.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent combination of education and relevant project/program management experience.
• High degree of professional integrity, sound judgment, adaptability, and willingness to ask thoughtful questions to drive successful outcomes.

Compensation: (DOE)

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