Jobs at MarketingNPV
MarketingNPV is a specialty consulting company leading the development of marketing measurement discipline for Fortune 500 clients. Supported by some of the leading minds in the field, the company has created some advanced capabilities in development of marketing dashboards and marketing ROI frameworks to build more robust measurement structures with or without extensive data. The firm presently works across multiple industries including financial services, retail, telecommunications, and B2B.
Entering its fourth year of operation, MarketingNPV is growing rapidly and operating profitably every quarter. Its publication MarketingNPV Journal is read by thousands of marketing executives and widely respected for quality of content. Company executives are frequent keynote speakers at industry events sponsored by the ANA, the AMA, and other marketing associations. The company’s growth objectives call for at least doubling in size each of the next few years.
Following are some of the open positions we currently have. Each link will take you to a more detailed description.
To apply for any of these positions, please send us your resume (Word or PDF format), along with salary history and the best cover letter you ever wrote in your life telling us why your background, experience, and personal characteristics make you the perfect person for the job. We get lots of submissions, and we immediately eliminate from consideration those failing to demonstrate the highest standards for quality. E-mail your response here. If we’re interested, we will contact you within a few days.
Positions currently open:
The Project Manager is responsible for coordinating necessary project resources to ensure timely, accurate, efficient, and comprehensive execution of all phases of consulting and small-scale IT projects. They blend superb project management and communication skills with client advisory and indirect influence abilities, ensuring that expectations and deliverables are properly defined and flawlessly executed on-time and on-budget.
General Responsibilities Include:
- Effective management and communication of project status and action plans for multiple projects running simultaneously using project management methodologies and control techniques to both client and MNPV project team.
- Work with Project Leader in creation of client facing documents such as timelines, presentations and meeting notes that illustrate a high level of professionalism, client business understanding and technical competency.
- Support tracking of resource allocations, cost estimating, and billing processes.
- Perform project risk assessments and oversee risk mitigation plans.
- Executing and enhancing company consulting process in key focus areas.
- Diagnosing client needs and implementing appropriate action plans quickly.
- Setting client expectations high and exceeding them.
- Developing and maintaining productive, professional client relationships at multiple levels of management.
- Negotiating, persuading, cajoling, and otherwise ensuring that many parties outside their direct authority are reliably making their necessary contributions to the project.
- Learning new tools and approaches “on the fly” and integrating new elements into the solution mix as required.
Success profile:
- Minimum of 5 years project management experience within corporate or consulting environment on marketing and/or financially-oriented projects.
- Strong knowledge of a broad range of marketing mix tactics and techniques.
- Highly proficient with Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
- Exceptional written and oral communications.
- Experience with IT system design.
- Detail-oriented approach to data management.
- Experience facilitating group meetings.
- Demonstrated ability to influence directly and indirectly.
- Demonstrated ability to create sound process from chaos.
- Ability to drive processes even when people, process or skill deficiencies thwart progress.
Specific Responsibilities On An Engagement May Include:
- Assisting in defining requirements and gathering facts and assumptions for implementation of metrics, dashboards, or resource allocation tools.
- Coordinating the aggregation and transformation of data to support the operation of dashboards or software tools.
- Negotiating with vendors and contractors to provide services and integrating their efforts into a seamless delivery team.
- Producing and presenting plans for project expansion, redirection, or re-evaluation.
- Reporting on project financial progress and updating plans for goal attainment.
- Determining circumstantially-appropriate change management strategies to assist clients in overcoming cultural, political, process, or skill deficiencies which pose risks to successful project completion.
- Providing training and support (logistical, emotional, and otherwise) to clients as required.
Chemistry/Culture Imperatives:
- Self-motivated; passionate about achieving business and personal goals.
- Self-confident; can accomplish anything they set their mind to. Not shy about expressing well-founded differences of opinion.
- Creative problem-solver.
- Direct, forthright, and able to offer and accept constructive feedback tactfully.
- Quality oriented – driven to perform far above average.
- Enjoys being challenged to test their limits.
- Thrives in an entrepreneurial environment, but sensitive to corporate structures at clients.
- Enjoys exercising creativity in all aspects of getting the job done, but appreciates the benefits of well-defined process execution.
