Head Of Marketing Strategy Planning And Operations

Key Responsibilities

Market Planning & Alignment

• Consolidate global, regional, and category priorities into a single market marketing plan aligned with business goals.
• Coordinate planning cycles (annual / half-year/quarterly), including targets, budgets, and priorities
• Ensure marketing plans are signed off with key stakeholders (Market, Category, GTM and WW teams)
  
  

• Support budget allocation, phasing, and tracking across campaigns, programs, and initiatives.
• Build business cases for incremental investments and support trade‑off decisions.
• Track spend vs. plan and flag risks or reallocation opportunities.
  
  

• Support Category teams in 4P planning (Product, Price, Place, Promotion) at market level.
• Translate category and GTM priorities into actionable marketing program.
• Ensure consistency and sequencing across campaigns and motions (e.g., product, services, ABM).
  
  

• Act as the planning interface between Market Marketing, Category, Sales, Insights, Media, and Comms teams.
• Prepare planning inputs and outputs for leadership forums (quarterly business workshops, game plans, planning reviews).
• Ensure the voice of the market and customer is reflected in planning decisions.
  
  

• Ensure plans are execution‑ready with clear priorities, KPIs, and dependencies.
• Track progress against plan and support corrective actions where needed.
• Maintain planning documentation, dashboards, and scorecards.
  
  

• Strong experience in marketing and marketing program management or category management
• Proven ability to manage complex planning cycles and multiple stakeholders.
• Financial acumen: budgeting, forecasting, and investment trade‑off
• Structured, analytical mindset with strong communication skills
• Comfortable operating between strategy and execution
• Preferably with experience working in a large multinational tech organization
• 15+ years of total experience