Marketing PMO

At Vertiv, we’re on a mission to empower the people that will power the future. From a simple swipe to life-changing medicines, from push notifications to generative AI. We design, manufacture, and service the products and solutions that keep the world connected. With $ billion in sales, a strong customer base and global reach spanning nearly 70 countries, we are uniquely positioned to deliver greater value to our customers and create new opportunities for our people.

The Marketing PMO exists to ensure that Vertiv's strategy can be executed coherently, predictably, and at scale across regions and functions.

We are currently looking for candidates based in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, or Romania.

As the organisation grows in speed, scope, and regional autonomy, complexity naturally increases. This role absorbs that complexity structurally; governing priority flow, balancing execution capacity, and stabilising decision dynamics; without altering reporting lines or ownership models.

This is a system orchestration and stabilisation role designed to protect strategic bandwidth at executive level, increase organisational speed, and reduce execution friction across the business. It is not a functional marketing leadership role.

Core Responsibilities

1. Priority Governance

Own the prioritisation process across EMEA Marketing initiatives. Ensure the team is always working on the right things in the right order.

• Maintain a live, shared view of all active and planned initiatives across regions, what is running, what is queued, and what is on hold.
• Work with the VP Marketing and regional leads each quarter to sequence initiatives against available capacity and strategic weight.
• Flag conflicts early when teams are being pulled in competing directions, and facilitate resolution before it reaches the VP.
• Ensure every initiative has a clear owner, a realistic timeline, and an agreed scope before it enters execution.

2. Capacity & Resource Balancing

Keep a real-time pulse on what teams can realistically deliver. Prevent overcommitment before it becomes a problem.

• Track workload across marketing functions and flag where teams are at or near capacity.
• Identify resourcing gaps or bottlenecks early, before they cause slippage on key programmes.
• Support quarterly planning by bringing a realistic capacity lens to target-setting discussions.
• Propose rebalancing options when commitments exceed available bandwidth.

3. Cross-Regional Orchestration

Connect the dots across EMEA regions. Reduce the time teams spend reinventing what already exists elsewhere.

• Identify where different regions are running similar campaigns, building similar assets, or solving the same problems independently.
• Facilitate the sharing of playbooks, templates, and proven approaches across country teams.
• Distinguish between areas where standardisation adds speed and areas where local adaptation adds genuine value, and protect both.
• Act as a connector between regional marketing leads, ensuring they are aware of each other's programmes and can build on shared work.

4. Execution Governance

Keep major programmes on track across the full EMEA marketing portfolio. This role tracks and integrates, it does not own or deliver.

• Maintain a consolidated view of all major marketing programmes across Field Marketing, Communications, Alliances & Partners, and Technical Marketing.
• Run a regular programme review cadence, identifying risks, dependencies, and delays before they escalated.
• Ensure handoffs between functions are clear and that nothing falls through the gaps between teams.
• Produce concise status updates for the VP Marketing, surfacing what needs attention, not just what is moving.

5. Operating Rhythm & Meeting Architecture

Design and run the engine room that keeps the marketing organisation aligned and moving. Own the cadence, not the content.

• Design and facilitate a structured operating rhythm: weekly execution check-ins, monthly alignment sessions, and quarterly planning reviews.
• Ensure each forum has a clear purpose, the right participants, and decisions that are captured and followed up.
• Reduce the number of ad hoc escalations reaching the VP by creating the right spaces for operational decisions to be made at team level.
• Maintain a clear record of decisions, owners, and next steps across all governance forums.

Required Profile

The ideal candidate brings a combination of systems thinking, cross-functional credibility, and the ability to lead without authority. Specifically:

• Works in close partnership with the VP Marketing.
• Strong systems thinking and organisational awareness.
• High cross-functional credibility across regions and functions.
• Comfortable managing complexity without formal authority.
• Ability to lead structured discussions under ambiguity.
• Sound understanding of regional, field, and go-to-market dynamics.
• Influences through logic, clarity, and trust, not hierarchy.

Experience & Background

Professional Experience

• 8–12 years of progressive experience in PMO, strategy execution, marketing operations, or business planning roles.
• Demonstrated track record of managing complex, cross-functional programmes across multiple geographies.
• Prior experience operating in a matrix organisation with regional and global stakeholders.
• Background in building and running structured operating rhythms (planning cycles, governance forums, execution cadences).
• Experience working closely with senior leadership — VP level and above — in a support or advisory capacity.

Education

• Bachelor's degree required — preferably in Business Administration, Marketing, Engineering, or a related field.
• Master's degree (MBA or equivalent) is an advantage.
• Project management certification (PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent) is a plus.

Industries

• Background in B2B technology, industrial, or infrastructure sectors is strongly preferred.
• Experience in fast-paced, multinational environments with distributed teams across EMEA.
• Exposure to go-to-market or commercial functions (marketing, sales, alliances) in addition to pure operations is valued.
• Candidates from management consulting, corporate strategy, or business transformation backgrounds will also be considered.

Languages & Mobility

• Business-level English is required; additional European languages are an advantage.
• Willingness to travel occasionally across EMEA for stakeholder engagement and alignment sessions.

Key Performance Indicators

Performance in this role is measured by system outcomes, not output volume:

• Improved initiative completion predictability.
• Reduction in cross-regional duplication.
• Increased quarterly planning accuracy.
• Faster decision-to-execution cycle time.
• Decrease in executive escalations linked to execution misalignment.

Strategic Outcome

With this role in place:

• Strategy remains clearly owned at executive level.
• Complexity is absorbed by the operating model, not by individuals.
• Regions stay empowered and focused.
• Execution speed increases and decision entropy decreases.

The organisation moves faster — because it moves together