Senior Project Manager - Marketing Operations

Senior Project Manager – Marketing Operations

At Ecolab, you can help take on some of the world’s most meaningful challenges, delivering critical insights and innovative solutions to help our customers achieve clean water, safe food, abundant energy and healthy environments. With our worldwide reach and ambitious growth plans, you will have the opportunity to own your future and impact what matters. Are you ready to make an impact? 

 

Ecolab is seeking a Senior Project Manager – Marketing Operations supporting our Marketing Services team in Global Business Services. The individual in this role will lead end-to-end project management of creative and digital projects while driving operational excellence, workflow optimization, governance, and performance metrics to improve efficiency and scalability across the Marketing Services function. This role sits at the intersection of project delivery, stakeholder management, and marketing operations, ensuring high-quality execution, optimized workflows, and measurable business impact. 

  

In this key role, you will be working closely with the Marcomm teams across Ecolab and Creative and Digital Services team in Pune managing cross-functional stakeholders, resource and capacity planning and seamless communication ensuring high stakeholder satisfaction. You will leverage tools, data and continuous improvement practices and mindset to enhance delivery performance, quality and operational impact. 

  

What’s in it for you: 

The opportunity to take on some of the world’s most meaningful challenges, helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, abundant energy, and healthy environments 

The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth 

The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives, and ideas to achieve our best 

  

What you will do: 

Project Management - Lead and manage end-to-end multiple marketing projects simultaneously, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, quality and budget. 

Risk Mitigation - Monitor project progress, identify potential risks, and implement mitigation strategies. 

Governance and Reporting – Establish strong governance and reporting cadence for regular project status reports, dashboards and stakeholder reviews. Provide insights on delivery performance, productivity, and optimization opportunities. Present updates and recommendations to senior leadership. 

Marketing Operations and Process Excellence - Design and optimize marketing workflows, intake processes and delivery models to improve efficiency, TAT and cost optimization. Track operational KPIs and lead continuous improvement initiatives. 

Stakeholder Management – Act as a trusted partner to Marcomm, Brand and Business stakeholders to ensure high stakeholder satisfaction. Communicate across multiple stakeholders to manage expectations, dependencies, milestones, outcomes, and risks. 

Resource and Capacity Management - Plan and manage team capacity, demand forecasting, and resource allocation working closely with creative manager and digital team. Ensure optimal utilization while maintaining delivery quality. Support hiring, onboarding, and vendor management where required. 

Tools and Technology - Manage and be the lead for the Adobe Workfront platform for marketing services. Leverage full functionality of the platform to enhance project management, systems, integration and reporting working with the Workfront specialist. 

Performance Evaluation – Monitor delivery performance and quality using metrics and status reporting of Marketing initiatives  

Support the Marketing Operations lead in strategic initiatives to scale and expand the portfolio of services and value communication with business stakeholders. 

  

What you will need: 

MBA Degree and 8-12+ years of experience in project management or business strategy role  

Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills to effectively liaise between senior leadership team and managed teams  

Experience in project management principles, demonstrates high level of organization and assertiveness for project delivery 

Experience in agency or in-house creative CoE / shared services environment 

Working knowledge of Adobe Workfront platform and ability to optimize functionalities 

Data drive mindset with strong analytical and problem-solving skills and agility to adapt to fast-paced startup type environment 

Strong understanding of marketing principles, strategies, and tactics 

High attention to detail and focus on quality and execution excellence 

Exposure to AI-enabled marketing workflow automation and operations. 

Professional working proficiency in English language 

  

Core GBS Skills: 

Project management 

Continuous improvement methods  

Customer service  

Adaptability 

Cultural awareness 

Detail-oriented  

Problem solving 

Time management 

Enterprise technologies 

Data structures 

Leadership Skills 

Stakeholder Management 

Cross-functional communications 

Risk management 

Change advocacy 

 

A trusted partner for millions of customers, Ecolab is a global leader in water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services that protect people and the resources vital to life. For more than a century, Ecolab has advanced innovation by integrating science‑based solutions, data‑driven insights, AI technology and world‑class service. This unique combination enables Ecolab to partner with customers to define what best‑in‑class looks like and scale it across their operations, helping them achieve peak performance. Today, Ecolab has $16 billion in annual sales, 48,000 associates and customers in more than 170 countries and 40 industries. The company helps protect one‑third of the world’s food production and a quarter of the power generated while delivering innovative solutions across food, healthcare, data centers, microelectronics, life sciences and hospitality. Ecolab’s comprehensive approach protects what’s vital, aiming by 2030 to help protect 2 billion people from infections and enough drinking water for 1 billion people while enhancing business performance.  
Ecolab. Protecting What’s Vital. www.ecolab.com 

  

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Experience Level

Senior Level