Campaign Program Manager

Overview:

Responsibilities:

• Leads campaign coordination from intake through planning, execution, launch, and wrap reporting
• Builds and manages integrated campaign plans, including timelines, milestones, workbacks, dependencies, and deliverables
• Ensures tasks are assigned, sequenced, completed on schedule, and meet readiness and quality standards
• Partners with COE leads (Digital, Events, Creative, Brand, PR & Comms, Insights) to coordinate execution across channels and teams
• Drives stakeholder alignment on scope, priorities, and delivery expectations, including managing changes throughout execution
• Leads campaign status meetings, communicates progress, and ensures smooth cross-team handoffs
• Identifies and resolves roadblocks, resourcing gaps, timeline risks, or competing needs, escalating as needed
• Partners with Marketing Operations to manage campaign intake, ensuring clear scope definition, strategic alignment, prioritization against capacity, and balanced resourcing across active initiatives
• Ensures deliverables meet standards for readiness, stakeholder alignment, and launch requirements
• Manages changes to scope, timelines, or priorities while maintaining visibility and accountability
• Tracks campaign progress, velocity, and performance metrics for operational visibility
• Partners with Insights & Analytics to ensure measurement requirements and reporting inputs are captured
• Supports post-campaign wrap-ups, capturing learnings and process improvement efforts

Qualifications:

• Professional degree in Project Management or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Typically with 6+ years of experience in project management, production, or experiential marketing
• Experience in Asana (or comparable project management platform), including management of campaign timelines, cross-functional dependencies, reporting visibility, and workflow governance
• Experience in Adobe Creative Suite such as InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator graphic software
• Experience in MS Office Suite
• Experience working with planning tools (i.e., budget tracking, project timeline, logistics and deliverables schedules, event specs, meeting agendas, and notes, etc.)
• Experience in marketing and basic graphic design
• Experience in logistics management including connecting people and resources to the right place at the right time
• Experience working within standardized workflows, tools, and governance models
• Excellent attention to detail and commitment to excellence.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to drive alignment across diverse teams.
• Strong project management skills with experience delivering multichannel marketing campaigns in a complex organization.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to interact effectively at all levels.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to lead timelines, status meetings, and escalation paths confidently.
• Ability to communicate and present ideas clearly, concisely, and professionally-both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure, manage tight deadlines, and adapt to unforeseen circumstances.
• Ability to proactively solve problems and apply innovative solutions.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment while also working independently and prioritizing work.
• Travel may be required.

If you currently work for HKS, please submit your application via the Internal Careers Portal.

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