Marketing Strategy, Planning Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Assist in managing the global expansion and experiential marketing budget by monitoring expenditures against the plan, reconciling actual figures, and promptly highlighting any variances.

• Collaborate with Finance and regional marketing teams on forecasting, accruals, and quarterly budget assessments.

• Ensure marketing teams adhere to financial best practices and standards.

• Oversee compliance, address any gaps, and aid teams in understanding and applying financial processes.

• Utilize finance and planning tools to monitor budgets, expenditures, and approvals.

• Develop budget summaries and trackers to aid leadership in decision-making.

• Manage team culture initiatives, including organizing and executing all-hands meetings from agenda creation to follow-up.

• Foster connections that unite a globally distributed team, solicit feedback, and explore innovative approaches.

• Cultivate relationships across departments and link teams to enhance collaboration.

• Coordinate special projects for the group and VP from initiation to completion.

• Establish timelines, designate owners, track dependencies, and follow up accordingly.

• Maintain project plans, provide status updates, and document subsequent steps.

• Identify risks and gaps, determine escalation paths, and propose solutions.

• Compose tailored emails, updates, and presentations for regional teams and senior leadership.

• Prepare materials for business reviews, quarterly business reviews (QBRs), and leadership gatherings.

• Handle sensitive business and financial information with care and discretion.

• Maintain planning calendars, regular reviews, and process documentation.

• Acquire knowledge and utilize finance, planning, and project management tools, while suggesting improvements to processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience in project coordination, program management, marketing operations, finance operations, event or internal communications, or a related role; internships and early-career experience are valid.

• Exceptional attention to detail.

• Strong project management capabilities.

• Tenacity and commitment to follow-through.

• Sound judgment and skills in escalation.

• Discretion in handling confidential information, including budgetary, headcount, and strategic planning details.

• Comfort with numerical data and budgets.

• Proficiency in spreadsheet applications such as Excel or Google Sheets.

• Willingness to learn about forecasting and variance tracking.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to compose concise emails and create polished presentations.

• Quick adaptation to new software tools.

• Collaborative and proactive work style.

• Must be located in Canada.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for the elastic stock program.

• Company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings.

• Health coverage for you and your family in numerous locations.

• Flexible work locations and schedules for many positions.

• Generous vacation days each year.

• Matching contributions up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for charitable donations and service.

• Up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects.

• A minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

• Competitive compensation based on your contributions here, rather than your previous salary.