Ellucian powers innovation for higher education, partnering with approximately 3,000 customers across 50 countries. As the Field Marketing Manager, you will partner closely with regional sales and cross-functional marketing teams to develop, execute, and report on integrated field marketing programs aligned to support demand generation and deal acceleration.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with sales leadership and regional sales teams (and leverage prior field marketing or sales experience) to bring awareness and alignment of global campaigns and marketing priorities
- Demonstrate strong demand generation experience by designing and executing programs that drive net new leads, pipeline creation, and pipeline acceleration
- Represent the voice of sales back to the marketing organization and identify, then close, operational gaps to help meet sales goals
- Serve as the connective tissue between sales teams and marketing, representing the greater global marketing organization to ensure alignment and transparency
- Drive fully integrated programs that span marketing vehicles, which may include social, email, event, digital, and more
- Measure and communicate the impact of regional programs as it relates to campaign performance, conversion to qualified leads, pipeline generation, and velocity
- Gain marketing and sales alignment through development and execution of the region's yearly strategic vision, including budgeting and marketing cadence/activities
- Leverage Account-Based Marketing (ABM) strategies to target and influence priority accounts in partnership with sales
- Champion marketing innovation by piloting new tactics, hybrid/virtual experiences, and creative partnerships to differentiate the brand in the field
- Continuously optimize programs using data and insights to improve ROI, conversion rates, and stakeholder satisfaction
Requirements:
- 5+ years of field, event, sales, business development, or demand generation experience working in B2B organizations with a successful track record of partnering with sales and collaborating with cross-functional marketing teams to plan, execute, follow up, and measure regional programs; SaaS or higher ed preferred
- Ability to forecast, measure, analyze, and report on the impact of regional demand programs in terms of KPIs aligned to sales models
- Experience in designing integrated regional programs that include multichannel tactics such as marketing email automation, paid media, events, webinars, etc
- Proven ability to manage ABM programs and targeted account campaigns in collaboration with sales
- Strong analytical and reporting skills with proficiency in using dashboards, attribution models, and ROI analysis to inform decisions
- Excellent program management, calendar timeline, and budget management experience
- Record of operational improvements that enabled scale and increased stakeholder satisfaction
- Ability to work with agility and be empowered to take risks and try new things
- Creativity in event concepting, experiential marketing, and localized program development
- Exceptional cross-functional collaboration skills, including the ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment between sales, marketing, and partners
- Strong presentation, communication, and storytelling skills to effectively convey strategy, program results, and recommendations to senior leadership
- Track record of developing and managing strong partnerships across cross-functional teams, including sales and marketing
- Experience in Salesforce, Marketo, Tableau, and team project management tools such as Monday.com is desirable
- Experience in the Education or Higher Education tech sector a plus