Senior Specialist - Marketing (Budget Operations)

WESCO • Pittsburgh, PA

51d

About The Position

The Senior Marketing Specialist - Budget Operations plays a critical role in ensuring the financial integrity and operational efficiency of the marketing organization. This position leads the coordination and execution of marketing programs while managing budgets, tracking expenditures, and ensuring alignment with strategic goals. The role bridges creative marketing execution with disciplined financial oversight-supporting campaign planning, spend forecasting, and performance reporting. The specialist partners closely with finance, marketing leadership, and cross-functional teams to ensure marketing investments are optimized, compliant, and delivered within approved budget.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, finance, or relevant industry preferred.
• 4 to 5 years required, 6 years preferred of product, solution or field marketing experience, preferably in Fortune 500 company.
• Marketing strategy and implementation, including a working knowledge of multi-channel marketing and associated best practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, combined with an ability to communicate clearly and succinctly to internal and external groups.
• Highly organized and detail oriented, with a customer-centric focus and commitment to quality.
• Strong finance, budget, research, and analytical skills, including the ability to spot questionable information or unusual data trends, combined with a disciplined problem-solving process that applies conceptual thinking to identify root cause(s) and provide appropriate solution(s).
• Able to spot new and evaluate existing business opportunities, including the ability to ask good questions, look beyond the obvious, and see the "big picture."
• Strong mathematical and computer skills, including proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), working knowledge and at least basic- to intermediate-level HTML or wordpress skills.
• Strong creativity, out-of-the-box thinking, and entrepreneurial drive; able to work with autonomy and self-direction.
• Able to influence others through effective negotiation techniques and strong interpersonal skills, meet deadlines, and deliver results.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain detailed marketing budget trackers across corporate, brand, and business unit teams, ensuring accurate forecasting, spend tracking, and reconciliation.
• Coordinate with business unit and functional marketing leaders ensuring alignment with budget and operational timelines.
• Lead the end-to-end invoice process, including approvals, coding, and reconciliation, while maintaining compliance with corporate accounting standards.
• Deliver monthly and quarterly financial reports, highlighting budget variances, and actionable insights for leadership.
• Support the development of marketing dashboards that connect spend data to campaign and program performance.
• Collaborate with Finance and Marketing leadership to align on accruals, reclasses, and year-end close requirements.
• Develop and refine standard operating procedures (SOPs) for budget governance, reporting cadence, and financial workflows across marketing systems.
• Ability to develop compelling presentations that clearly communicate marketing performance, budget insights, and strategic recommendations to executive audiences.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees