Overview:
At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working. United by curiosity and a culture of caring, we develop smart solutions that anticipate our customer’s and partner’s needs and solve their challenges.
Being part of Zebra Nation means you are seen, heard, valued, and respected. Drawing from our unique perspectives, we collaborate to deliver on our purpose. Here you are part of a team pushing boundaries today to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve.
You’ll have opportunities to learn and lead in a forward-thinking environment, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes you care about—locally and globally.
Come make an impact every day at Zebra.
What We're Looking For:
The Marketing Program Specialist within the Marketing Program Management Office will play an important role in advancing how Zebra manages execution of programs, and key projects within those programs, to maximize impact for Zebra and our channel partners.The Marketing Program Specialist will work with Program Owners to support our Channel Program evolution with limited initial involvement with our Marketing Performance Management (MPM) program, Product Launch, and Innovation Initiatives. Within those programs, the Marketing Program Specialist will support a project lead and their cross-functional teams to achieve Zebra’s project goals by building project plans in collaboration with the project lead and their teams, holding core project leads and teams accountable for on-time milestone and deliverable delivery, and collecting, interpreting, and delivering program feedback and status to key stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
Gathers input from the Project Lead and project team to develop a project plan for projects of limited scope. May also assist a Project Lead in mgmt. of their projects. Can work independently on less complex projects and initiatives.
Supports establishment of project scope, objectives, approach, & timelines with supervision oversight.
Works together with management to select team members from key stakeholder teams across Marketing (and outside of Marketing where required) to set timelines with supervision/oversight.
Organizes cross-functional activities, ensuring program completion, i.e., project on schedule, and monitors for significant risks & issues.
Owns documentation of project progress to provide tops down insights on process execution to Program Owners with focus on out of bounds execution and/or performance. Executes to this by gathering status updates from the project team and interpreting those inputs to assemble a consolidated view of project status across a program and providing regular status updates to senior management.
Supports coordination of deliverables and project assets to assist the project team where needed.
Addresses obstacles minor in nature, escalates more complex issues to senior members of the team
Demonstrates a basic understanding of business processes, scope and activities impacted by supported plans
Some supervision by management is expected in this position for complex or novel problems.
Note: The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, abilities, and skills required of personnel so classified.
Benefits:
We understand the importance of work-life balance and wellbeing, which is why we offer flexibility for our teams including: hybrid work, adaptable hours, Summer Flex Fridays, Focus Fridays, and an annual companywide well-being day to promote revitalization and success.
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