Employment

Marketing Project Manager

Posting Date: October 2009
Job Location: London, UK
Job Summary: We are looking for a highly driven and experienced Marketing Programme Manager to work on one of the most exciting brands in technology. Canonical is looking for a Marketing Programme Manager to manage web projects and multi channel awareness and demand generation campaigns. This exciting position reports to the Marketing Director and will collaborate with all key cross-functional business units to plan and assist in the delivery of marketing programmes. Job responsibilities include all major aspects of marketing campaign planning and measurement to help meet the marketing goals and requirements of the various stockholders.
Reports To: Marketing Director

Founded in late 2004, Canonical Ltd is a company head quartered in Europe with over 300 employees working in over 27 countries (and counting). Canonical is the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu project. Our mission is to realise the potential of free software in the lives of individuals and organisations by:

• Delivering the world's best free software platform
• Ensuring its availability to everyone
• Supporting it with high quality professional service offerings
• Facilitating the continued growth and development of the free software community

Key responsibilities and accountabilities:

• Managing programmes from brief to completion
• Results tracking and reporting
• Producing programme plans for internal presentations
• Feedback analysis and tracking
• Liaising with internal teams/stakeholders for project updates, quotations and time scales
• Responsible for the continuous update of the internal management information system and project management tools used by the company
• Design and delivery of process documentation as and when required to support project execution best practice guideline development
• Obtaining quotations from suppliers and outsourcing work
• Working to strict deadlines and budgets
• Problem solving
• Managing logistics

Required skills and experience:

• The candidate should have a strong marketing technology background
• Demonstrable experience managing website design and build initiatives
• Experience of multi channel marketing campaign planning and execution - B2B and B2C including online, events, print and production, direct email /mail etc.
• Project management experience within a commercial environment
• Excellent communication skills
• Enthusiasm with a strong sense of commercial acumen and attention to detail
• Ability to work on own initiative and with minimal supervision