Opening for Marketing Delivery Manager with Aetna

Job description

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What does it mean to work at Aetna? A lot. From programs and benefits that support your financial, physical and emotional health to opportunities to build your knowledge and expand your career, the company makes working here a valuable experience in many ways.

Marketing Delivery Manager - this position can be located in any one of the following areas: in Dubai or Singapore office locations.

Aetna International isseeking an experienced Delivery Manager who will take on the management of key change projects with the goal of delivering every project on time, within budget and within scope.You will be great at juggling several tasks at the same time, and will have excellent interpersonal skills.Youll also have the essential skills to bring people on the change journey, across the organization, joining the dots for them so that processes, systems and messages are congruent.This role differs from classic project management roles in that it requires a deep understanding and passion for marketing, as the opportunity with the role is to position the marketing function as the central point for customer advocacy in the organization, ensuring that all change that is delivered is congruent with the brand experience and our strategic goals.

Responsibilities:

• Supporting senior marketing leaders in developing business cases, including conducting appropriate research and assessments to establish viability of initiatives and projects.
• Conduct upfront risk assessment and ongoing management.
• Developing clear and comprehensive project plans including requirements capture, budgeting, resource planning, time estimation and reporting.
• Collaborating with other functions and regions across the organisation to ensure projects are set up for success
• Auditing existing activity and recommending a path to proceed in order to consolidate outputs and remove causes of duplication
• Create quality control process for use by the team
• Ensuring projects are delivered to time, budget and quality requirements.
• Managing project teams including motivating and training team members.
• Managing stakeholders including producing appropriate stakeholder communication.
• Managing handover of projects to the business, including staff training.
• Performing post-project evaluation to ensure the project has achieved its business objectives as well as analysis of how the project itself was run.
• Developing and implementing processes and systems to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the teams ability to deliver, including continuous improvement programmes.
• Establishing and running a MRM system, including the necessary work to embed it within the team
• Being accountable for budgetary governance within the function, including necessary reporting and engagement with the Finance function
• Overall vendor management including control of outsource spending

Required Skills:

Requirements:

• Able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the health care Industry at a level to build credibility across the organisation
• Experience in leading and being accountable for the design and implementation of new transformation initiatives
• The proven ability to think strategically, but also to develop practical implementation recommendations and follow through to successful conclusion
• Strong commercial capabilities and drive, including supporting sales and marketing and the development of customer propositions
• Highly developed analytical and problem solving skills to deliver business strategy
• Being prepared to break down organisational boundaries through leadership, collaboration and influencing, building strong relationships with people at all levels based on trust
• Strong improvement orientation, resilience and personal drive enabling the ability to work to tight deadlines under pressure, and lead through high levels of ambiguity and uncertainty
• Strong influencing, communication and negotiation skills with emphasis on achieving results and successful outcomes
• Passion for customer-oriented change, as well as an aptitude for technology
• Strong marketing background essential for the role
• Proven experience in overseeing the implementation of complex business change initiatives to tight timescales to deliver significant business improvements
• Educated to degree level or professional equivalent, with preferable a higher business or management qualification or extensive relevant experience
• Ability to juggle volume and variety of demand
• A formal and valid project management qualification such as Prince 2 practitioner.
• Experience with Agile methodology programs is required, since many current programs are being delivered via this methodology
• Experience in managing lean and/or continuous improvement initiatives; formal training such as Six Sigma is desired but not absolutely necessary.
• International travel will be required, with a possible need to spend significant time in a location with a specific implementation need

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