Morgan McKinley has partnered with a global tech client in supporting with the hiring of a Senior Manager, Brand and Advertising position. This role sits at the centre of global brand and advertising, helping drive cross-functional programs from planning, creative development, and execution while keeping teams aligned, decisions moving, and project elements on track.

This person will work across global priority marketing projects spanning brand launches, creative production, campaign development, rollout planning, internal communications, and operational delivery. They will need to be comfortable navigating ambiguity, bringing structure to fast-moving work, and partnering across a matrixed marketing organization.

Key Responsibilties

Lead and coordinate high-priority brand and advertising projects across multiple teams, stakeholders and timezones
End-to-end program management with responsibility for timelines, milestones, dependencies, risks all the way to delivery
Support planning and rollout of major brand initiatives, communications planning, leadership approvals and execution
Partner across the brand, creative, media, content and operations teams, and marketing pillar team leads to ensure work is aligned and progressing
Build and maintain clear plans, status updates, decision logs, meeting cadences, and action trackers
Coordinate input and alignment across senior stakeholders, ensuring the right decisions are made at the right time
Help teams translate strategic direction into practical action plans and next steps
Identify risks, gaps, and dependencies and escalate with clear recommendations
Provide day-to-day continuity across in-flight programs during the leave period
Manage budgets across programs, including forecasting, tracking spend against plan, purchase orders, and reconciliation with finance

Experience & skills

Strong program or project management experience within brand, advertising, marketing, creative, or communications environments
A deep understanding and passion for creative and the creative development process
Experience coordinating launches, rollouts, campaigns, or other highly visible marketing initiatives
Ability to turn ambiguous or evolving inputs into clear plans
Proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional marketing projects with multiple stakeholders and moving parts
Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience supporting senior leaders and navigating approvals
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong attention to detail and operational discipline
Confidence facilitating meetings, aligning teams, to keep momentum
Experience owning or co-owning marketing budgets and working with finance and procurement
Experience in global or multi-market environments is preferred
We are a global brand, so you will work with stakeholders in multiple time zones. As such, some international travel on occasion may be needed for production or global office/ partner visits.

Who you are

The ideal candidate will be:

A proactive problem solver and self-starter who works independently, takes initiative, and anticipates needs before being asked
Highly organized and dependable
Calm under pressure and comfortable managing competing priorities
Flexible, open-minded, and action-oriented
Collaborative and low-ego in how they work across teams
Comfortable presenting to and influencing senior stakeholders up to C-suite level
Practical, thoughtful, and solutions-oriented
Able to zoom out to the strategic picture while staying close to executional detail

Contract context

Fixed-term maternity cover
Immediate focus is likely to include continuity across active brand and advertising programs, rollout planning, stakeholder management, and launch coordination
The role will suit someone who can step into an already-moving portfolio and quickly make an impact and create clarity
Handover period to be included where possible

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