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Marketing Operations & Projects Manager
full-timeUnited Kingdom

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United Kingdom

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full-time

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About the Role

This role plays a key part in enabling the Marketing & Business Development (BD) function to operate efficiently and at scale. Whilst owning and delivering their own projects, the role will work closely with the Head of Marketing Operations and the Senior CRM Technology Development Manager to support the other projects within the Marketing Technology & Operations team.

You will help translate business needs into clearly scoped, well-governed projects, ensuring the right initiatives are prioritised and delivered effectively. This is a hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys bringing structure to complexity and driving meaningful change across a professional services environment.

Key Responsibilities

In this role, you can expect to be involved in a wide variety of work, including:

Project Management & Delivery

  • Deliver a number of key Marketing Technology & Operations projects for the Business Development function, from initial scoping and design through to implementation.
  • Manage project plans, timelines, risks, dependencies and stakeholder expectations to ensure successful outcomes.
  • Balance pace with appropriate governance in a fast-moving environment.

Portfolio Management

  • Support the development and maintenance of the infrastructure required to manage a broad portfolio of Marketing Technology & Operations initiatives.
  • Create and maintain project boards, portfolio dashboards and reporting to provide clear visibility of progress, priorities and risks.
  • Support prioritisation and capacity planning across the portfolio.

Project Triage & Onboarding

  • Act as a central point of contact for new Marketing Technology & Operations project requests.
  • Work closely with internal stakeholders to understand business needs, challenges and objectives.
  • Translate requirements into clearly defined scopes and, where appropriate, detailed requirements documentation for handover to development or delivery teams.
  • Challenge and shape requests to ensure alignment with strategic priorities and available capacity.

Stakeholder & Change Management

  • Build strong relationships across Marketing & BD, IT, external suppliers and other business services teams.
  • Facilitate workshops and discussions to support requirement gathering and decision-making.
  • Working with the wider team to support the successful adoption of new processes, tools and ways of working through effective change management.

About You

Essential Skills & Experience

  • Experience supporting or delivering projects within a law firm or similar professional services environment.
  • Good understanding of Marketing & Business Development operations.
  • Solid understanding of change management principles and how to embed change in a complex organisation.
  • Ability to understand business context and present practical solutions in clear, accessible language.
  • Highly organised, detail-oriented and able to manage multiple competing priorities.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive, delivery-focused mindset.
  • Ability to build relationships, influence stakeholders and drive change across the business.
  • A collaborative team player with a relentless passion for improving efficiency and ways of working.

Desirable

  • Experience working with CRM or marketing technology platforms.
  • Familiarity with project management tools and delivery methodologies (Agile, waterfall or hybrid).
  • Experience working with external suppliers or technology delivery partners.
  • Formal project management qualification or equivalent practical experience.

What Success Looks Like

  • Marketing Technology & Operations projects are consistently well-scoped, prioritised and delivered effectively.
  • Stakeholders have clear visibility of project status, risks and dependencies.
  • Project intake, triage and portfolio management processes are embedded and consistently used.

What’s in it for you?

We want to reward you today and help you plan for tomorrow. We appreciate that everyone is different, therefore we have designed a benefits system that offers choice and flexibility based on individual needs and lifestyles. To name a few, these include:

  • Competitive basic salary (reviewed annually)

  • Flexible, hybrid working policy

  • Generous bonus scheme

  • Up to 25 days holiday (rising to 28 days with service)

  • Holiday exchange scheme

  • Private medical insurance

  • Enhanced parental leave

  • Reasonable adjustments and accommodation for disabled talent in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.

If you would like to read more information regarding our range of benefits, please visit our Rewards & Benefits page on our website.

Please note that we have a preferred agency panel in place. Only applications submitted via the portal at the point of instruction will be accepted.

Other facts

Tech stack
Project Management,Stakeholder Management,Change Management,Marketing Operations,Business Development,CRM Technology,Problem Solving,Collaboration,Efficiency Improvement,Portfolio Management,Requirements Gathering,Agile Methodologies,Waterfall Methodologies,Communication,Detail Orientation,Organizational Skills

About CMS Law

Are you a MENA-based business seeking investments abroad, or a multinational looking to enter, establish or grow your business interests in the dynamic markets of MENA? With our lawyers based throughout the key regional commercial centres, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria and Turkey, CMS MENA has the resources and expertise to support all aspects of your business.

If you’re looking for new markets, investment opportunities, implementation of new strategies or have a dispute to resolve, we have specialist teams of over 125 lawyers on the ground to help across some of the region’s most exciting economies. Our local knowledge and business savvy approach means we give you both commercial and legal insight to make the most of the opportunities in the region. Our sector focus gives us a comprehensive understanding of our clients’ businesses and markets and allows us to constantly deliver sound and commercially relevant advice from any of our offices We focus on relationships, not deals, and we are considered more approachable and accessible than many of our competitors. Our clients tell us that they like working with us and that we’re often seen as the human face of the law.

International law firm CMS has over 5,000 lawyers in 79 locations worldwide to help organisations thrive in changing times. Through our technical rigour, strategic expertise and deep focus on building long-term partnerships, we are committed to putting our clients and their business success first.

Team size: 5,001-10,000 employees
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Industry: Legal Services

What you'll do

  • The role involves delivering key Marketing Technology and Operations projects, managing project plans, timelines, and stakeholder expectations. Additionally, it includes supporting the development of infrastructure for managing a broad portfolio of initiatives.

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