BUSINESS MANAGEMENT is part of the Marketing and Communications Business Strategy, Services and Culture function.  Business Management delivers core business services to the Marketing and Communications Functions, Regions and GTM Priorities.  Each Business Management team (BMO) is responsible for helping their key stakeholder plan, execute, analyze and optimize their business. 

This role will be responsible for supporting the Marketing Planning & Budgeting process including:

• Ensuring plans and initiatives are appropriately funded and have sufficient resources to attain revenue-achievement and market-awareness goals.
• Executing spend management & forecasting
• Supporting executive reviews and insights
• Use of foundational systems and tools

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

More specifically, this role will support the following priorities and tasks:

• Budget-planning process; resource allocation (including programs, technology investments, and headcount) to align activities with corporate and marketing objectives and improve cost effectiveness
• Spend Management - budget allocation, approval process, set up tracking codes aligned to cost centers, SOW submissions, adherence to procurement policies and travel oversight. 
• Forecast support - monitor invoices for status (accruals). Forecast travel and program spend.  Monitor HC Changes. 
• Identify areas of improvement and work with procurement to develop strategic approach.
• Projects and analyses to evaluate marketing performance and recommend potential new models and approaches to evaluate marketing performance and ROI

EDUCATION COMPETENCIES AND EXPERIENCE

• Previous internship experience a plus
• Business planning and budget management as it relates to business strategy, sales or marketing function
• Analysis including benchmarks of internal and external performance; key performance metrics and applicability of benchmarks, investment and budget allocation, resource effectiveness, cost of return, and ROI
• Change management and the value of change within the bigger picture of the organization
• Communication and project management skills

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