Business Manager, Go-to-Market - 5815

Project Description

Do you want to work on a meaningful and impactful project that will make a difference?? Do you want to support others to succeed and operate in a highly collaborative and global environment?  Are you passionate about supporting individuals and organizations be successful by empowering them to upskill?  If you said yes to all the above, then this could be the role for you.  We are seeking an innovative and driven Business Manager to join the Worldwide Learning Go-to-Market (GTM) team.

The Worldwide Learning (WWL) organization is rethinking the entire concept of learning and development across many audience segments.  Our objective is to build world class capability by fostering a learning culture, empowering learners, and ultimately fueling growth and innovation through learning.  Our principles are to be learner obsessed, simple & focused, data driven, innovative, and business aligned.

The Business Manager will be responsible for project managing key rhythm of business workstream, including troubleshooting and streamlining our reporting process.  The successful candidate will achieve this by partnering closely with peers in the GTM team and key stakeholders in WWL, Integrated Marketing, and engineering to support business objectives and drive business impact.

Deliverables/Responsibilities

• Support the annual budget process under the direction of others. Track financial progress to date against budget and provide guidance to the team.
• Complete an assessment of marketing reporting capabilities, identify gaps and challenges, summarize across the team and synthesize into actionable recommendations.
• Partner with the marketing, reporting, and engineering teams to evaluate, prioritize, and implement recommendations.
• Work with internal channel owners to ensure utilization of the marketing reporting tools created in key learner and learning partner-facing channels to ensure last mile implementation.
• Ensure effective stakeholder communications throughout the process, via email updates, key meeting rhythms/processes, and presentations. Enable internal stakeholders and partners with easy-to-understand process guidance and documentation.
• Establish ongoing feedback loops with internal and external partners to understand how things are landing and required updates

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in project management, reporting capabilities, product marketing and/or marketing communications.
• Organized approach to project and process management, with proven experience establishing and maintaining strong collaborative relationships across a varied set of stakeholders and organizations.
• Excellent communicator, with expertise in written, visual and presentation formats as well as running effective stakeholder connection rhythms.
• Self-starter, with shared ownership mindset & strong attention to detail.

About Simplicity  

From strategy to execution, Simplicity Consulting is the preferred marketing and business consultancy for the new world of work. We help companies accelerate growth, add a fresh perspective, and increase capacity—at the speed of business—with access to our curated community of marketing, communications, and business operations experts.

Simplicity is a five-time Inc. 5000 honoree as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America and has been recognized as one of Washington’s largest women-owned companies by Puget Sound Business Journal. Female-founded and -run, we’re committed to helping everyone thrive in today’s workplace.

Equal opportunity employer  

Simplicity is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and supportive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

Benefits  

• Health: Medical (HSA or PPO) and Vision
• Voluntary Insurances: Dental, Disability, Life, and AD&D
• 401K with employer match
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid holidays