Marketing Manager (contract)

Microsoft is seeking a highly organized and execution-focused professional to support integrated marketing activations for consumer brand initiatives. The role involves managing multiple workstreams, ensuring timely delivery of marketing programs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive initiatives from planning through execution.

Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain detailed project plans and timelines across integrated marketing initiatives
• Send regular status updates and identify risks, dependencies, and upcoming milestones
• Ensure teams meet key deadlines and deliverables across fast-moving launch and activation cycles
• Adapt plans as priorities, timelines, or scopes change while keeping stakeholders aligned
• Support integrated marketing planning, including light creative strategy and channel briefing
• Partner with cross-functional teams across marketing, go-to-market, and product marketing to develop multi-channel launch or activation plans
• Translate briefs into clear execution plans across channels
• Review creative and marketing assets to ensure they meet the brief and uphold high quality standards
• Support coordination with creative, channel, and agency partners as needed
• Own asset organization, including clear naming conventions and metadata tagging
• Ensure final assets are saved in correct shared locations and are easy to find and reuse
• Traffic assets to channel teams on time and confirm receipt and readiness
• Help maintain clean, accessible asset libraries to enable work to scale across teams

Requirements:

• 5 years or more of experience in integrated marketing, campaign management, project management, or a related marketing role
• 8 years or more of project management experience
• 8 years or more of experience writing creative briefs and marketing planning
• 8 years or more of asset management experience
• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent relevant work experience
• Project management with ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
• Creative brief writing and marketing planning
• Asset management and organization
• Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments
• Adaptability to shifting timelines and deliverables
• Proactive problem-solving and risk identification
• Quality assurance and creative review
• Experience working in the tech sector
• Experience working as a vendor or supporting teams