Marketing Communications Specialist I - Morrisville, North Carolina

Morrisville, North Carolina

About the Role

The Marketing Communications Specialist I (Marketing Operations Program Manager) is responsible for running the operating system of the Marketing Business Partner team. This role ensures the team functions as a single, integrated unit aligned to shared business missions. There are four new marketing organizations within Schneider Electric. This person will help keep this team in sync with overall goals and how those connect. The role supports digital marketing, event marketing, and content marketing teams to maintain high collaboration, structure, and communication. You will orchestrate how work flows across strategy, program management, and functional teams, driving intake, prioritization, resource alignment, execution tracking, and performance visibility team-wide. This role sits at the center of a cross-functional marketing team and ensures the group operates as one aligned unit, focused on delivering measurable business outcomes with speed and at scale.

Responsibilities

• Team Operating Rhythm & Governance
  • Establish and run the team-level operating cadence (weekly/monthly, QBRs, and mission reviews).
  • Design and manage meeting structures, agendas, and decision frameworks.
  • Lead planning for team events, offsites, and face-to-face sessions.
  • Ensure clear governance across all initiatives, including roles, decision rights, and escalation paths.

  Outcome: A consistent, predictable, and high-functioning team rhythm.

• Mission Intake, Prioritization, and Planning
  • Oversee the central intake process for marketing requests and initiatives within the Marketing Business Partner team.
  • Facilitate prioritization in partnership with the Marketing Business Partner Leader and Strategic Marketers.
  • Ensure all work aligns to defined missions and business priorities.
  • Identify gaps, overlaps, and constraints across missions.
  • Partner with functional teams to optimize resource deployment.
  • Maintain a single, integrated view of all team commitments.

  Outcome: Work is focused on the highest-value priorities, with clear trade-offs and alignment.

• Execution Tracking & Delivery Management
  • Track progress across all active missions and initiatives.
  • Ensure milestones, dependencies, and risks are identified and managed.
  • Drive accountability across cross-functional teams.

  Outcome: Work moves forward on time, with clear ownership and transparency.

• Performance Tracking & Reporting
  • Consolidate input from Program Managers and functional teams into cohesive, team-level reporting.
  • Provide leadership visibility into progress, performance, and impact.
  • Support QBRs and executive updates with clear insights.

  Outcome: Leadership has a clear, real-time view of team performance.

• Cross-Team Integration
  • Ensure alignment across strategy, program management, and functional execution teams.
  • Connect work across missions to avoid duplication and fragmentation.
  • Drive a "one team" mindset, removing silos and handoffs.
  • Reinforce standard ways of working across Marketing Business Partner teams.

  Outcome: The team operates as a unified system, not a collection of functions.

Requirements

• 4–7+ years of experience in marketing operations, project/program management, or business operations.
• Proven ability to work across cross-functional, matrixed teams.
• Experience building or improving operating models, processes, or governance structures.
• Strong organizational, prioritization, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with reporting, dashboards, and performance tracking.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Preferred Profile

• Marketing degree with a few years in marketing and experience transitioning into sales, where you learned to garner support, persuade through storytelling, and build strong marketing narratives.
• Strong knowledge of numbers/pricing, customer priorities, and employer offerings.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Candidates looking to move from sales back into a dedicated marketing role.

What Success Looks Like

• The Marketing Business Partner team operates with clear priorities, structured cadences, and full alignment across the extended team.
• Leadership has clear visibility into performance and progress.
• Teams spend less time coordinating work and more time delivering impact.
• Missions are executed faster, with fewer dependencies and better outcomes.