Director, Marketing Ops & Capabilities

What we do

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Who We Are

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What you will do

The Director, Media Operations & Marketing Capabilities will lead the strategy, governance, and execution of key marketing operations and capability-building initiatives across North America. This role is accountable for driving operational excellence, advancing marketing capabilities, leading agency partnerships, and overseeing high-priority cross-brand initiatives that accelerate growth and transformation.

The Director serves as a critical connector between Global and North America teams, ensuring capability strategies, operating models, and investment priorities align to business objectives and deliver measurable impact.

Key Responsibilities

Marketing Capabilities Strategy & Leadership

• Define the vision, roadmap, and priorities for Marketing Operations and Capabilities across North America.

• Establish annual objectives, KPIs, and success measures.

• Prioritize investments across operational excellence, capability development, and content creation.

• Balance resources across brands, enterprise priorities, and transformational initiatives.

• Partner closely with Marketing leadership to identify and remove barriers to execution.

• Ensure alignment between North America and Global marketing operating models.

Marketing Operations & Agency Partnership

• Lead governance and optimization of agency partnerships across media, creative, commerce, social, influencer, and production disciplines.

• Drive agency performance management and value realization.

• Resolve strategic operational challenges and key decision points.

• Lead future-state operating model development as capabilities mature.

• Identify opportunities to simplify marketing workflows and improve efficiency.

• Partner closely with Procurement on agency strategy, scope, and performance management.

Cross-Brand Strategic Initiatives

• Sponsor and lead enterprise marketing initiatives across future growth programs.

• Align stakeholders across Brand Marketing, Media, Commerce, Digital, CBI, and other functions.

• Establish governance, decision-making frameworks, and activation roadmaps.

• Remove organizational barriers and escalate critical issues.

• Ensure insights and learnings are scaled across the organization.

Global & North America Capability Integration

• Represent North America priorities within Global capability programs.

• Influence global roadmap decisions and investment priorities.

• Drive adoption of critical global initiatives within the U.S. market.

• Share best practices and scale successful programs across regions.

• Identify opportunities to pilot and test emerging capabilities.

People Leadership

• Lead and develop a high-performing team focused on operations, transformation, capability building, and content creation.

• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

What we are looking for

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, or a related field preferred.

• A minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in marketing operations, marketing excellence, capability development, agency management, or commercial transformation roles within a complex, matrixed organization.

• Proven experience developing and executing marketing operating models, governance frameworks, and capability-building strategies that improve organizational effectiveness and business outcomes.

• Deep experience managing agency partnerships, scope planning, resource allocation, and vendor relationships to maximize efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment.

• Demonstrated success leading and developing high-performing teams, including direct leadership of managers and cross-functional teams.

• Strong track record leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing stakeholders across Marketing, Media, Digital, Commerce, Insights, Finance, Procurement, and other enterprise functions.

• Experience establishing KPIs, performance metrics, and operational processes to drive accountability and continuous improvement.

• Proven ability to balance strategic thinking with execution, making complex decisions that influence organizational priorities, resource allocation, and business growth.

• Excellent communication, leadership, and change management skills with the ability to align diverse stakeholders around a common vision.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale marketing transformation, capability-building, or shared-services initiatives across multiple brands, business units, or geographies.

• Demonstrated success designing and evolving agency operating models, content production ecosystems, or marketing resource management processes.

• Experience partnering across global and regional organizations to influence priorities, drive adoption of enterprise capabilities, and scale best practices.

• Strong understanding of modern marketing ecosystems, including content creation, media operations, digital marketing, marketing technology, and data-driven decision-making.

• Experience identifying and scaling cross-brand growth opportunities through collaborative, enterprise-wide initiatives.

• Familiarity with AI-enabled marketing capabilities, workflow automation, and emerging technologies that improve marketing effectiveness and operational efficiency.

• Experience within consumer packaged goods, consumer health, healthcare, or similarly fast-paced, highly matrixed environments preferred.

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What’s in it for you

This takes into account a number of factors including work location, the candidate’s skills, experience, education level & other job-related factors.

Kenvue is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on merit without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.