Agile Marketing Manager

Description and Requirements
The MetLife Marketing organization is evolving to enable our Next Frontier strategy. The organization has outlined a new vision - to be a customer-centric and data-driven growth engine that takes accountability for contributing meaningful enterprise value and building customer equity.
The organization is on a journey to create a high-performing team equipped with modern capabilities. This will require us to change the organization's expectation of marketing and shift the Marketing focus areas. The expected outcomes of this evolution are 1) growth - marketing as an investment with a predictable contribution to enterprise value, 2) efficiency/effectiveness through a data-driven DNA, 3) capability maturity leading to sophisticated technical and strategic capabilities, and 4) talent alignment to enable a modern, agile marketing organization that nurtures, develops, and attracts top talent.
The Agile Marketing Manager will play a crucial role in ensuring the timely execution of marketing activities within an agile framework. This individual will work closely with various marketing pods, using Workfront as the central hub for all scrum management to improve business outcomes, increase collaboration with clear delineation of roles and responsibilities in the pods and the centers of excellence that support them. The ideal candidate will have experience running scrums in an agile marketing environment. And will help identify best practices and pitfalls to avoid, developing marketing materials to share these learnings across the team(s).
RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Scrum Management: Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives for multiple marketing pods to ensure efficient and effective execution of marketing activities.

• Workfront Administration: Utilize Workfront to manage and track all epics, stories, and tickets, ensuring all tasks are up-to-date and progress is accurately reported and holding key owners accountable

• Collaboration: Work closely with various marketing teams to understand their needs and ensure alignment and timely delivery of projects.

• Best Practices: Identify and document best practices and lessons learned from completed stories and epics, creating marketing materials to enable shared learnings across the team.

• Problem Solving: Proactively identify and address potential bottlenecks or issues that could impact project timelines, escalate as appropriate to ensure continuous improvement and agile practices.

• Reporting: Generate and distribute regular status reports on sprint progress, including key metrics and performance indicators.

• Training and Support: Provide training and support to team members on agile methodologies and Workfront usage, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications or a related field; relevant certification in Agile (e.g., Certified Scrum Master) is a plus.

• 2-4 years of experience in a marketing role, with at least 1 year of experience in an agile marketing environment.

• Experience facilitating scrums and working within an agile framework.

• Proficiency with Workfront or similar project management tools.

• Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Benefits We Offer
Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more!
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2024 "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, as well as the 2024 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For ®, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
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