Marketing Program Manager - Corporate Marketing (Kansas City)

**Description** The Marketing Program Manager plays a critical role in developing and scaling high-impact marketing programs that support enterprise priorities and enable more effective, consistent pursuit execution. This role is designed for a marketing professional who understands the pace, complexity and stakes of pursuit-based environments and can translate that experience into programs, tools and best practices that improve pursuit effectiveness, consistency and win outcomes. This individual will lead and orchestrate a portfolio of marketing programs, including pursuit marketing enablement, go-to-market efforts and enterprise enablement platforms, driving alignment across teams, consistency in execution and measurable impact. Partnering closely with marketing leadership, brand, content and go-to-market teams, this role sits at the intersection of strategy and execution, bringing discipline to how work gets done while enabling teams to move faster and smarter. This individual brings a strong balance of strategic thinking and operational discipline, delivering programs that are well-designed, adopted, scalable and continuously improved. **Key Responsibilities** + Lead the development and execution of enterprise marketing programs that improve consistency, efficiency and effectiveness across pursuit and go-to-market activities. + Build and scale pursuit marketing enablement programs, including frameworks, templates, tools and best practices that support high-quality, repeatable execution. + Translate pursuit marketing experience into structured, usable resources that teams can adopt in real-world scenarios. + Drive adoption and utilization of marketing programs and enablement platforms by aligning stakeholders, simplifying workflows and reducing friction. + Partner with marketing, sales and business development leaders to identify gaps, inefficiencies and opportunities across the pursuit and marketing lifecycle. + Define program goals, success metrics and adoption targets; track performance and continuously refine programs based on insights and feedback. + Establish and maintain program roadmaps, governance models and workflows that support scalability and consistency. + Collaborate across brand, content, digital and go-to-market teams to align outputs with program objectives and business priorities. + Lead change management efforts tied to new processes, tools and ways of working—driving clarity, communication and sustained adoption. + Identify and implement process improvements that increase speed-to-market, content reuse and overall marketing effectiveness. + Develop and maintain playbooks, standards and documentation that elevate marketing and pursuit maturity across the organization. + Provide regular updates and actionable insights to stakeholders on program performance, adoption and impact. **Qualifications** + Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, business, or a related field required. + 8 years of experience in program management, project management, or marketing operations. + Experience working in a complex, matrix organization is strongly preferred. + Strong program and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously. + Direct experience in pursuit marketing, proposal development or business development environments is strongly preferred. + Proven ability to build and scale programs, frameworks or enablement resources — not just execute within them is strongly preferred. + Experience driving adoption of new processes, tools or platforms across cross-functional teams is strongly preferred. + Strong understanding of how marketing supports sales, pursuits and pipeline growth is strongly preferred. + Demonstrated ability to identify inefficiencies and implement process improvements that drive measurable impact is strongly preferred. + Strong program and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple, concurrent initiative is strongly preferred. + Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority is strongly preferred. + Analytical mindset with experience defining success metrics, measuring adoption and translating data into actionable insights is strongly preferred. + Ability to operate at both a strategic and tactical level — connecting program design to execution realities is strongly preferred. + Comfort working in fast-paced, highly matrixed environments with competing priorities is strongly preferred. + Experience working with enterprise marketing and sales platforms (e.g., CRM, content systems, proposal technologies) preferred. + Experience supporting enterprise initiatives, transformation efforts or capability-building programs preferred. + Ability to partner effectively with marketing, brand, content and go-to-market teams. + Strong organizational and time management skills. + Excellent written and verbal communication skills. + Ability to coordinate priorities, manage dependencies and meet deadlines. + Analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail. + Comfort working in fast-paced, matrixed environments. + Ability to think strategically while executing tactically. + Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills. + Ability to adapt to change and support continuous improvement. + Experience working in a corporate marketing environment, preferred. + Familiarity with marketing processes, workflows and integrated campaign execution, preferred. + Experience supporting cross-functional or enterprise-level initiatives, preferred. This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filled. EEO/Disabled/Veterans **Job** Marketing/Communications **Primary Location** US-MO-Kansas City **Schedule:** Full-time **Travel:** Yes, 5 % of the Time **Req ID:** 261495 **Job Hire Type** Experienced #LI-MJ #COR N/A