Managing Consultant
Description
We are looking for a Managing Consultant with marketing automation expertise to join our expanding team. This role perfectly balances senior client leadership with team development. On the delivery side, you will guide complex customer projects and strategic marketing initiatives. As a People Manager, you will lead, mentor, and develop a team of consultants to maximize productivity and engagement, bridging the gap between talent development and client goals. Core management duties include onboarding, continuous coaching, conducting performance reviews, and issue resolution.
Responsibilities:
People Management:
Practice Leadership & Strategic Alignment: Lead the organization’s marketing automation practice by establishing goals and delivery standards for the consulting team, ensuring day-to-day operations align seamlessly with overarching business objectives.
Onboarding & Talent Integration: Manage role requirements and performance expectations for new hires, successfully transitioning them into high-contributing team members while building a trusted management relationship that drives long-term retention.
Performance Management: Set clear goals, deliver actionable feedback, and facilitate ongoing development conversations during regular 1:1s, culminating in annual performance evaluations.
Team Engagement, Culture & Relations: Foster a positive, collaborative, and inclusive work environment, actively mediating disputes and handling internal employee relations matters with fairness and transparency.
Cross-Functional Issue Resolution: Partner closely with Account Managers and Human Resources to proactively address, manage, and resolve client delivery issues and consultant performance gaps.
Delivery Leader:
Serve as an architect and strategic advisor for client accounts, translating complex business objectives into scalable marketing technology solutions and campaign execution frameworks.
Lead high-performing delivery teams to execute high-impact MarTech initiatives on time and within scope, proactively mitigating risks and managing senior stakeholder relationships to maximize technology ROI.
Drive consulting delivery excellence by establishing best practices, guiding data-driven campaign strategies, and partnering with customer teams to modernize their marketing automation ecosystems.
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum of five years of management experience with a proven track record of success in comparable leadership roles, preferably within a professional services environment.
Deep expertise in marketing automation is required, with specific experience in platforms such as Marketo Engage, Eloqua, or Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
Proven leadership and motivation skills, backed by a genuine passion for managing teams and cultivating the professional growth of others.
Exceptional interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to effectively mitigate conflicts.
Expertise in implementing global demand centers preferred.
Preferred qualifications include experience planning and executing event marketing initiatives, such as trade shows, user conferences, and roadshows.
Who Thrives with Us
People who are self-motivated learners who take initiative, continuously develop their skills, and learn through hands-on project experience.
People who are problem solvers and builders who thrive on tackling complex challenges, enjoy creating solutions from the ground up, and excel in fast-paced environments with a high volume of meaningful work.
People who are relationship-focused professionals who understand how to build, nurture, and maintain strong, trusted client relationships.
People who like making others successful and understand the value of that as much as making themself successful
People who leave their ego’s at home, and really enjoy working with other brilliant people
In return, you get an awesome opportunity to work with amazing clients (some of the Coolest in the Valley) and awesome people who love to have fun while getting stuff done! We are growing fast, which means you grow with us! We also typically have large scale ongoing engagements so you have the opportunity to really understand the client’s business first hand. You have to not only be prepared for the uncertainty that comes with working with a growing company, but you need to thrive in it. We work in a very FAST paced environment so put your seatbelt on!
About Marvel Marketers:
We are looking for a Managing Consultant, specializing in Marketing Automation to join our growing team. The Managing Consultant will be responsible for managing one of our incredible teams of Marketing Automation Experts and will be responsible for maintaining and improving upon the high quality of service we provide. This person will perform the duties of both a senior-level Marketing Automation consultant and a people manager in a fast-paced, highly dynamic environment. As a People Manager, they will lead, support and develop employees to maximize productivity and engagement, acting as a bridge between the consultants and organizational goals. Key people management duties include onboarding, mentoring, coaching, conducting performance reviews, and resolving conflicts. Foster a positive culture and ensure team alignment with company objectives.
Responsibilities:
People Management:
Onboarding: Sets the stage and manages role requirements, performance expectations and long-term retention. Helping transition the new hire into a contributing team member while developing a trusted management relationship.
Performance Management: Setting clear goals, delivering actionable feedback and ensuring there are continuous conversations specific to performance during regularly scheduled 1:1’s. Conducting annual performance evaluations.
Coaching & Development: Supporting training opportunities, coaching staff and fostering professional growth.
Employee Engagement & Culture: Promoting a positive, collaborative and inclusive work environment
Conflict Resolution & Employee Relations: Mediating disputes and handling disciplinary matters with fairness. Partnering with Account Managers and Human Resources to address potential retention risks, resolved within 30 days.
Strategic Alignment: Connecting day-to-day operations with overall business goals.
Consulting:
Drive the the success of some of our very large strategic accounts to make them successful in their Marketing Automation efforts
Lead the Marketo practice for the organization through the development of goals and standards for team of automation consultants
Have deep knowledge and expertise in managing global demand centers, large enterprise instances, and the change management required for the success of both
Identify and track benchmarks for client demand gen activities
Manage flawless operational execution
Balance multiple (and sometimes conflicting )stakeholder priorities
Provide consultative, prescriptive direction to maximize systems, tools and strategy
Apply best digital practices and troubleshoot automation-related challenges
Guide conversations between marketing and sales teams to develop lead management, nurturing and scoring practices
Lead projects across the project lifecycle from current state documentation, gap analysis, requirements gathering, future state design, and implementation across the organizational, process, technology and data dimensions
Develop and deploy of project roadmaps
Helping solve some of the most interesting operational and scale challenges unique to global enterprises
Minimum Qualifications
Demonstrated track record of success in multiple comparable roles
Minimum 5 years of management experience
Experience in Marketo is required
Passion for managing teams and supporting the growth and development of others
Proven leadership, motivation and team building skills
Comfortable with ambiguity, highly agile, and flexible
Exceptional communication, presentation conflict mitigation skills
Demonstrable leadership skills in demanding corporate environments
Have autonomously led major programs of work
Consulting experience either as an internal consultant or with a consulting/software company
Who Thrives with Us
People who want to learn, but are self motivated in learning from their projects
People who enjoy the really hard problems
People who enjoy having too much vs. too little to do
People who like creating from nothing
People who understand how to build and maintain relationships with their coworkers and their clients
People who like making others successful and understand the value of that as much as making themself successful
People who leave their ego’s at home, and really enjoy working with other brilliant people
In return, you get an awesome opportunity to work with amazing clients (some of the Coolest in the Valley) and awesome people who love to have fun while getting stuff done! We are growing fast, which means you grow with us! We also typically have large scale ongoing engagements so you have the opportunity to really understand the client’s business first hand. You have to not only be prepared for the uncertainty that comes with working with a growing company, but you need to thrive in it. We work in a very FAST paced environment so put your seatbelt on!
About Marvel Marketers:
Marvel Marketers (www.marvelmarketers.com) is a Marketing Automation, Digital Marketing, Experience Management and ABM Consultancy. Our clients are sophisticated so we only hire the best to keep up and add value along the entire Digital Marketing Maturity Curve. We also partner strategically on custom digital marketing roles to help support all areas of our client's Digital Marketing Strategy.
As we continue to grow and expand our service offerings, we are looking for the best and brightest to join our team. If you applied for a previous role, apply again! Our needs continuously change and evolve.
Marvel Marketers is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Marvel Marketers offers Full Benefits (Health, Dental, Vision, Life, Optional Chiropractic), Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays, Paid Sick Time, 401K, Full Bootcamp Marketo Level 1 and Level 2 Training, Flexible Health Spending, Ongoing Training programs and an epic team of people to work with.
Please note: Marvel is seeking individuals authorized to work within the country the position is located at, and are not offering any immigration and/or visa sponsorship at this time
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