About the position
Meta is looking for an experienced leader to join its Marketing Strategic Planning and Operations (SP&O) team, supporting the Business Marketing organization. The SP&O team unlocks collective, sustainable Marketing impact by shaping marketing strategy and plans, spearheading operational rigor, and evolving capabilities by leading key initiatives that drive impact. This role will lead SP&O for the entire Business Marketing portfolio, partnering closely with Marketing leadership and supporting a team of six. We are seeking a skilled leader experienced in driving complex cross-functional initiatives with executive stakeholders to positively influence business outcomes. You will demonstrate effective analytical, problem-solving, and executive communication skills, with a proven record of leveraging data for strategic decision-making. With a background in business and marketing strategy, this leader must balance strategic vision with operational expertise.
Responsibilities
- Lead team to successfully deliver against goals and objectives, drive maximum business impact
- Provide guidance, coaching, and development opportunities, fostering an environment of accountability and operational rigor
- Lead annual and ad hoc planning processes - partner with marketing cross-functional partners to develop marketing strategies, ensure alignment, and define and track organizational goals
- Distill business insights to identify high-impact opportunities, as well as efficiently deploy budget and headcount resources
- Build investment cases to land the annual plan and incremental resource asks, including driving trade-off discussions
- Define, implement, manage, and refine organizational operations, rhythms of business, and ways of working that enable Marketing to drive impact with speed and scale
- Remove roadblocks, escalate misalignments, and ensure teams are set up for successful execution
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, sales, marketing, legal and communications to align on strategic priorities and drive go-to-market success
- Identify opportunities to build and improve on strategic marketing, planning, and operations processes to support the Business Marketing organization
- Accelerate progress on complex, critical initiatives by providing strategic and operational support. Lead program management, including project planning / tracking and stakeholder communication
Requirements
- 12+ years of professional experience in marketing, operations, or strategy at a tech company, startup, or strategy consulting firm
- 10+ years experience leading high-performing teams
- Experience influencing at all levels of the organization up to the CEO and other, cross-functional VP leaders
- Experience distilling complex ideas simply, and the experience zooming in and out effectively based on audience
- Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams, managing complex projects, and delivering business results in fast-moving, ambiguous situations
- Experience with organizational transformation, process optimization, and scaling operations
- Understanding of the Marketing function and its core competencies
- Prior experience in either management consulting or in-house strategy and operations
- MBA or related graduate degree
- Prior experience in business/B2B marketing
- Experience working in fast-growing tech environment
