Marketing Manager

Global Sales & Services Operations (GSSO) is the team that helps shape Gartner's mission-critical sales and services priorities and works with sales and services leaders to drive tactical and analytical insights. As an associate on the GSSO team, you'll be at the forefront of the ongoing transformation of Gartner's sales and services teams, which drive approximately $5.3B in Contract Value (CV). You will partner with business leaders across Gartner to support global sales and services teams comprised of nearly 9,000 associates who sell to and service every major function across the enterprise

About the Role:

Marketing Manager, Campaign Excellence will join the Global Marketing team in GSSO. The Global Marketing team is focused on driving topline revenue and increasing seller productivity. The team designs marketing programs to help prospective customers understand how Gartner’s insights, advice, and tools can help them achieve the mission-critical priorities that drive organizational performance. The team accelerates sales activity by attracting, engaging and converting prospects through the delivery of compelling Gartner insights and experiences across the buyer journey.

The Marketing Manager is responsible for leading a team of Campaign Excellence specialists while serving as a strategic partner to Revenue Marketing leaders and cross-functional stakeholders. This role ensures successful planning, execution, and continuous improvement of marketing campaign operations, enabling Revenue Marketing teams to achieve business objectives efficiently and effectively. In addition to people leadership responsibilities, the Marketing Manager directly manages a portfolio of large, complex, and business-critical demand generation campaigns, serving as a player-coach who combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution.

The ideal candidate combines strong people leadership, operational excellence, stakeholder management, and problem-solving capabilities. They are able to balance day-to-day execution with longer-term process improvements while fostering a high-performing and engaged team. The role requires the ability to influence across teams, navigate ambiguity, and build trusted partnerships throughout the organization.

What you will lead:

● People Leadership & Team Development

○ Lead, coach, and develop a team of approximately 6 Marketing Specialists.

○ Create an environment of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and high performance.

○ Provide regular feedback, mentoring, and career development support to team members.

○ Enable specialists to build confidence, strengthen stakeholder relationships, and increase ownership of their work.

○ Balance workload and resources across the team to ensure priorities are delivered effectively.

● Cross-functional Leadership and Stakeholder Partnership

○ Develop trusted partnerships across Marketing, Digital Experience, Content, Operations, Analytics, and other cross-functional teams.

○ Translate business priorities into operational plans and actionable recommendations.

○ Lead cross-functional initiatives, align stakeholders, and influence decisions through expertise, data, and strong business acumen.

○ Represent the Campaign Excellence team in broader organizational planning and strategic discussions.

● Campaign Planning & Activation

○ Support the design and execution of large, complex, cross-functional, multi-channel demand generation campaigns aligned to target audiences, and regions.

○ Activate campaigns across channels including email, web, paid media, and social to drive high-quality lead generation and pipeline contribution.

○ Ensure campaign deliverables are executed with a high degree of accuracy, quality, and timeliness while balancing stakeholder expectations and operational priorities.

○ Analyze campaign performance, identify optimization opportunities, and share recommendations to improve future marketing effectiveness.

● Operational Excellence & Campaign Delivery

○ Oversee campaign operations to ensure timely, accurate, and consistent execution.

○ Drive adherence to established processes, governance, and service-level expectations.

○ Ensure campaign activities, deliverables, handoffs, status updates, and stakeholder communications are effectively managed.

○ Monitor performance, identify risks, and implement corrective actions when necessary.

○ Maintain strong documentation, process discipline, and operational rigor across the team.

● Problem Solving & Continuous Improvement

○ Identify opportunities to improve marketing processes, workflows, tools, and stakeholder experiences.

○ Lead brainstorming sessions and solution development for operational challenges.

○ Evaluate risks, dependencies, and business impacts while developing practical recommendations.

○ Drive initiatives that improve efficiency, scalability, quality, and team effectiveness.

○ Promote a solution-oriented mindset and continuous improvement culture.

What you will need:

● Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field. Master's degree (MBA or equivalent) preferred.

● 5-8 years of experience in B2B marketing, demand generation, campaign management, marketing operations, or a related discipline.

● Previous people leadership experience, including coaching, mentoring, performance management, and team development. Experience leading and developing teams of marketing professionals is strongly preferred.

● Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and relationship-building skills across multiple functions and levels of the organization.

● Experience planning and activating complex, multi-channel demand generation campaigns across email, web, paid media, and social channels.

● Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to assess challenges end-to-end, identify risks and dependencies, and develop practical solutions.

● Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to facilitate discussions, drive alignment, and present recommendations to senior stakeholders.

● Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

What you will get:

● Competitive salary, generous paid time off policy, charity match program, Group Medical Insurance, Parental Leave, Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and more!

● Collaborative, team-oriented culture that embraces diversity

● Professional development and unlimited growth opportunities

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