Manager, Strategic Product Solutions - MAR001273

Provide supporting leadership for identifying, assessing, planning and leading high-priority executive sponsored strategic solutions including initiatives and projects which drive business results and improvements for the marketing organization. This role will provide ongoing information and data/ analysis to enable decision making for a variety of complex, high-priority operational initiatives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead functional projects assigned by leadership, taking point and driving projects with defined roles, responsibilities and actions
• Assist in developing communications and related plans to key strategic team members including setting agendas, creating communications, prioritizing plans for addressing issues that are impacting progress towards initiatives
• Drive alignment among department leaders by creating collaborative processes and proactively facilitating communication between key stakeholders.
• Manage the planning and development of key leadership events across Marketing that provide critical updates on the business and drive collaboration across the teams.
• Track strategic initiatives by monitoring progress towards achieving goals and benchmarks, analyzing data, ensuring follow-through on the part of key players, and sustaining momentum needed to drive these initiatives.
• Maintain a process for capturing, analyzing and disseminating key lessons learned from initiatives, towards continuous improvement and drive best practices throughout Operations.
• Manage the planning and necessary processes that support the budget and forecast processes across the Marketing functional leadership team.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least 5 years' of professional, cross-functional program management experience
• At least 3 years' of broad, multi-disciplinary experience
• Experience working with officer and executive level leaders
• Ability to translate and organize complex strategic objectives into clear, manageable goals and tactical plans
• Strong cross-functional communications and collaboration skills with the ability to operate and influence across all levels of the organization
• Ability to communicate at all levels of the organization
• Strong organizational agility and credibility
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to influence action
• Self-starter who loves to work independently in a dynamic environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or Graduate level degree
• Operations functional experience
• Wireless industry knowledge and experience

Job : Marketing

Location(s) : Illinois-CHICAGO_IL

U.S. Cellular® is an EEO employer and gives consideration to qualified applicants without regard to race/color/age/religion/sex/sexual orientation/gender identity/national origin/disability/veteran status, pregnancy or genetic information.

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