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Marketing Workflow Manager

Locations: Sioux Center, IA | Sioux Falls, SD | Omaha, NE
Open to remote for the right candidate, with preference given to candidates located near one of our office locations.

Do you enjoy bringing order to complexity? Finding better ways to work? Helping teams accomplish more together?

If so, you might be a great fit for our Marketing Workflow Manager role.

At Interstates, our Marketing team supports recruiting, business development, digital marketing, events, client communications, and strategic initiatives across the company. In this role, you'll help bring clarity to how that work is requested, prioritized, managed, and delivered.

You'll partner with Marketing leadership and team members to improve workflows, lead key initiatives, and create visibility into priorities, timelines, and team capacity, helping the team stay focused on the work that matters most.

What You'll Do

You'll serve as the operational hub of our Marketing team, helping connect business priorities, people, and projects to keep work moving forward.

In this role you'll:

• Manage Marketing's project intake process, helping evaluate, prioritize, and route incoming work.  
• Partner with Marketing leadership to align Marketing's work with business priorities, team capacity, and strategic objectives. Create visibility into workload, timelines, priorities, and resource capacity.
• Lead complex marketing and cross-functional projects from kickoff through completion.
• Build project plans, communication strategies, timelines, and stakeholder expectations.
• Anticipate risks, identify roadblocks, and help resolve competing priorities before they impact delivery.
• Improve Marketing's workflows, templates, and tools that help Marketing scale.
• Develop dashboards and reporting that provide meaningful insight into project progress, team workload, and capacity..
• Champion continuous improvement across how Marketing plans, collaborates, and delivers work.

What Success Looks Like

After your first year, you've helped create a Marketing team where:

• People know what work is most important and why. Projects move forward with fewer surprises and less confusion.
• Leaders have confidence in priorities, project status and team capacity.
• Risks and bottlenecks are identified before they slow progress.
• Projects are delivered with greater consistency and less stress.
• Marketing spends more time creating value and less time managing process.

What You Bring

Success in this role requires someone who is organized, collaborative, and comfortable bringing clarity to complex work.

You'll likely be successful if you have:

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, Project Management, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 4-6 years of experience managing projects, programs, or operations within a marketing, creative, agency, or communications environment.
• Exceptional organizational skills  with the ability to prioritize. Competing work and adapt as priorities change.  
• Experience coordinating multiple projects and balancing competing deadlines.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Experience improving processes, workflows, and team operations.
• Comfort using Microsoft Office and learning project management and collaboration platforms.
• The ability to think strategically while staying attentive to the details.

Why Interstates?

At Interstates, you'll join a Marketing team that values collaboration, continuous improvement, and helping one another succeed. We work closely with teams across the organization, solve real business challenges, and are always looking for better ways to work.

As our Marketing Workflow Manager, you'll have the opportunity to shape how Marketing operates. You'll lead meaningful projects, improve the way work gets done, and make a lasting impact on a team that supports the entire business.

Benefits

Interstates offers a competitive compensation package along with benefits designed to support you at work and at home, including:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off and holidays
• Professional development opportunities
• Collaborative, people-first culture
• Opportunities to make a lasting impact across the organization

Apply today and help shape how Marketing gets work done at Interstates.