Senior Manager, Marketing Execution

Johnson Controls•Glendale, AZ

1d•$115,000 - $145,000

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Marketing Execution leads strategic marketing programs and enables consistent execution across regions, functions, and business units. The role oversees interconnected workstreams, establishes governance and operating rhythms, supports teams with practical tools and standard work, and removes barriers that could affect delivery. Working across Marketing, Sales, Digital, Operations, IT, and Analytics, this leader connects strategy to execution and helps teams deliver measurable, scalable business outcomes.

Requirements

Experience leading strategic marketing programs and ensuring consistent execution across regions, functions, and business units.
Ability to oversee interconnected workstreams, establish governance and operating rhythms.
Skills in supporting teams with practical tools and standard work.
Capability to remove barriers affecting delivery.
Experience working across Marketing, Sales, Digital, Operations, IT, and Analytics.
Proven ability to connect strategy to execution and drive measurable, scalable business outcomes.
Experience developing and maintaining integrated program roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and stakeholder engagement plans.
Proficiency in coordinating execution across multiple workstreams.
Experience providing hands-on program support and removing execution barriers.
Ability to design and oversee standard work for marketing activities.
Experience developing playbooks, SOPs, templates, checklists, RACI models, and stage-gate controls.
Ability to enable regional and functional teams to apply consistent ways of working.
Experience creating governance cadences to monitor adoption, exceptions, program health, process performance, risks, and business outcomes.
Skills in establishing steering forums, working-team rhythms, decision pathways, and executive reporting.
Ability to define program KPIs and reporting frameworks.
Experience preparing leadership updates.
Skills in facilitating cross-functional process design and continuous-improvement workshops.
Ability to partner with process owners and subject-matter experts.
Experience benchmarking practices and sponsoring improvements.
Ability to lead change management through stakeholder alignment, communications, capability building, and coaching.
Experience developing adoption strategies, communication plans, training materials, and leader engagement approaches.
Ability to monitor adoption and stakeholder readiness.
Strong relationship-building skills in a matrixed organization.
Ability to influence decisions without direct authority.
Experience identifying automation and AI opportunities.
Ability to partner with Marketing Operations, IT, Digital, and Analytics teams.
Experience supporting implementation and adoption of tools and workflows.

Nice To Haves

Experience with AI in marketing execution.

Responsibilities

Lead complex marketing programs and transformation initiatives across regions, functions, and business units.
Develop and maintain integrated program roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and stakeholder engagement plans.
Coordinate execution across multiple workstreams, ensuring teams remain aligned on objectives, timing, ownership, and expected outcomes.
Provide hands-on program support, remove execution barriers, escalate decisions, and maintain visibility for sponsors and stakeholders.
Design and oversee standard work for Americas Marketing activities, including campaign types, campaign intake and prioritization, campaign activation, events, webinars, tradeshows, lead capture, follow-up, and measurement.
Develop practical playbooks, SOPs, templates, checklists, RACI models, and stage-gate controls that clarify roles, decisions, inputs, outputs, and service-level expectations.
Enable regional and functional teams to apply consistent ways of working while accommodating documented business or market requirements.
Maintain a controlled repository and ensure standards, tools, and supporting materials remain current, accessible, and usable.
Create a governance cadence to monitor adoption, exceptions, program health, process performance, risks, and business outcomes.
Establish steering forums, working-team rhythms, decision pathways, and executive reporting that reinforce transparency and accountability.
Define program KPIs and reporting frameworks to track progress, adoption, delivery performance, and value realization.
Prepare concise leadership updates with key accomplishments, decisions required, risks, dependencies, and corrective actions.
Facilitate cross-functional process design and continuous-improvement workshops, simplifying handoffs and removing duplication, delays, and execution risk.
Partner with process owners and subject-matter experts to translate improvement opportunities into prioritized initiatives and sustainable implementation plans.
Benchmark practices and sponsor improvements that increase productivity, transparency, scalability, and customer impact.
Promote a continuous-improvement mindset by using data, stakeholder feedback, and lessons learned to strengthen program delivery.
Lead change management through stakeholder alignment, communications, capability building, and coaching so regional teams consistently apply agreed ways of working.
Develop adoption strategies, communication plans, training materials, and leader engagement approaches for new programs and operating practices.
Monitor adoption and stakeholder readiness, identify resistance or capability gaps, and coordinate targeted interventions.
Build strong relationships across a matrixed organization and influence decisions without relying on direct authority.
Identify automation and AI opportunities that simplify work, improve decision visibility, reduce manual effort, and strengthen scalability.
Partner with Marketing Operations, IT, Digital, and Analytics teams to define business requirements and prioritize technology-enabled improvements.
Support implementation and adoption of tools and workflows that improve marketing planning, execution, governance, and measurement.