Director, Marketing Solutions

About this role:

The Director, Global Marketing Operations leads the end‑to‑end planning, prioritization, execution, and optimization of all marketing assets across Global Marketing. This role is accountable for ensuring that the highest‑priority initiatives are delivered with speed, quality, and alignment to business objectives.

This leader owns the Creative and Web project pipeline—from intake and prioritization through resourcing, execution, and delivery—and serves as a strategic partner to the head of Global Marketing and the Marketing Leadership Team. The role brings strategic priorities to execution through operational rigor, clear prioritization, and disciplined execution to a complex, cross‑functional environment.

As both an operational architect and strategic leader, this role translates strategy into execution, builds the frameworks, workflows, and team capabilities required to scale marketing delivery while reducing friction, duplication, and inefficiencies. The Director also serves as a change agent and trusted advisor to senior leaders, anticipating needs, surfacing risks, and guiding the organization through new priorities and transformations.
 

What you will do:

• Lead executive‑level project – translate strategic priorities into executions

• Serve as the lead project manager for strategic, priority initiatives, ensuring flawless execution and cross‑functional alignment.

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with all partners by demonstrating operational expertise, strategic clarity, and deep understanding of marketing priorities.

• Anticipate and proactively manage risks, escalating issues early and recommending solutions that keep programs and timelines on track.

• Ensure all high‑profile initiatives consistently reflect the brand, quality, and strategic direction of the marketing organization.

• Own and govern the creative & web project pipeline

• Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of a creative or web project, from intake and prioritization through resourcing, execution, and delivery.

• Partner closely with the Marketing Leadership Team to ensure all work maps to top organizational priorities and delivers measurable impact.

• Partner closely with the Marketing Leadership Team to forecast campaigns deliverables, proactively reserving capacity and resources to support priority initiatives.

• Continuously refine operating model to drive GTM speed. Build and manage operational frameworks, SLAs, workflows, and playbooks that drive consistency, accountability, and predictable delivery.

• Lead Through Influence

• Drive cross-team alignment, remove roadblocks, and ensure marketing delivers predictable outcomes.

• Foster strong relationships with the Marketing Leadership Team and senior stakeholders to ensure alignment and seamless execution across the organization.

• Coach and develop leaders.

What you will need:

• 12+ years of experience leading operations, project management, or delivery functions in a complex, matrixed organization.

• Proven experience driving cross-functional execution in complex organizations

• Exceptional written, visual, and verbal communication skills

• Executive presence and ability to influence senior stakeholders

• Strong EQ and ability to read org dynamics, resolve conflict, and maintain trust

What you will get:

• Competitive salary, generous paid time off policy, charity match program, Medical, Dental & Vision Plans, Parental Leave, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), 401K matching, and more!

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Who are we?

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective business and technology insights, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to 21,000 associates globally who support ~14,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That’s why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work?

Our vast, virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities – opportunities that may not even exist right now – for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

What do we offer?

Gartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers.

In our hybrid work environment, we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive — working virtually when it's productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful, engaging and inspiring.

Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.

Gartner believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is 120,000 USD - 167,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based, uncapped sales incentive plan. Our talent acquisition team will provide the specific opportunity on our bonus or incentive programs to eligible candidates. We also offer market leading benefit programs including generous PTO, a 401k match up to $7,200 per year, the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount, and more.

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