• Responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering internal departmental work and cross-functional initiatives across Marketing and Buying & Planning • Owns timelines, dependencies, execution visibility, and meeting facilitation for recurring tasks (such as promotions, pricing cycles, and planning cadences) as well as project-based initiatives (including launches and campaigns) • Facilitates productive cross-department discussions, ensures clear decisions and next steps • Provides leadership with consistent visibility into progress, risks, and constraints • Manage internal departmental projects and recurring tasks within Marketing and Buying & Planning, including promotions, pricing cycles, planning cadences, and reporting rhythms • Accountable for utilization, maintenance, and accuracy of marketing systems: Wrike (creative task management), Smartsheet (PM tool), and Bynder (DAM) • Develop, optimize and update standard operating procedures for recurring tasks, automating where possible • Manage cross-functional initiatives involving Marketing, Buying & Planning, Business Development, and other partners as required • Facilitate cross-department meetings with VPs, Directors, and functional leaders, ensuring meetings are well-structured, focused, and outcome-driven • Prepare and distribute pre-meeting agendas outlining objectives, required inputs, and decisions needed • Capture decisions, action items, owners, and timelines, and distribute clear post-meeting recap communications • Maintain accurate and up-to-date project plans, task tracking, and follow-ups within the designated PM tools • Build and maintain project and work plans including timelines, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables • Develop concise status updates and dashboards that provide leadership with clear visibility into progress, risks, and upcoming decision points • Maintain visibility into ongoing operational workload versus project work to support realistic sequencing • Proactively identify timing conflicts, capacity risks, or decision blockers and escalate to the Manager, Strategic Operations • Reduce reactive coordination by driving clarity, accountability, and consistent execution cadence