Marketing Manager (Mass-Sector Product Marketing)

The Intersection of Calling & Career 

World Vision is now hiring for Marketing Manager to serve on the Mass Product Marketing team.   

00 At a Glance       

Role: Marketing Manager

Level: Individual contributor

Reports To: Director of Mass-Sector Product Marketing, Lori Chuchu-Ryan

Required Experience: Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, or related field or 8 years of equivalent work experience. In addition, this role requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in marketing, fundraising, or a related area.

Salary Range: The full range is $66,700 – $100,100. Applies to locations with a market similar to our U.S. headquarters in the Greater Seattle area. A different range may apply based on your work location. The typical hiring range is $70,000 - $83,000. See the “Salary Range & Benefits” section below for more details on our compensation and benefits.

Benefits: Yes. Click here to learn more.      

Location: Remote within the United States (we're registered in over 40 states). Prefer applicants based in the Pacific time zone. 

Company Size/Type: 1000+. Non-profit charitable organization. Together, we empower the most vulnerable children to overcome poverty and experience the fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.  

01 The Job

World Vision is looking for a Marketing Manager to join our fun, gifted, and high-performing mass-sector product marketing team. In this role, you’ll be responsible for managing our handcrafted gifts program including vendor and budget management, supporting the team with go-to-market deliverables including World Vision’s Gift Catalog (print and online) and Monthly Pledge products as well as donor cultivation communications, and ensuring product attributes are kept current to help achieve business goals. This vital individual contributor role collaborates with various teams and has no direct reports. 

S/he will help carry out our Christian organization’s mission, vision, and strategies with their work. The Marketing Manager will personify the ministry of World Vision by witnessing to Christ and ministering to others through life, deed, word, and sign.

02 Your Responsibilities Will Include: 

• Keep Christ central in individual and corporate life. Actively participate in and contribute to the spiritual disciplines of the organization (Christian conduct, chapel, prayer, worship, devotions, and the leadership of devotions); incorporate World Vision Core Values into decisions within the scope of the role.
• Manage the activities of partners, agencies, suppliers, and/or internal support departments and divisions in the execution of tactical marketing activities.
• Manage and/or support programs/projects. Monitor results and recommend changes to strategies and plans.
• Provide technical expertise cross-functionally and across the organization to manage and optimize marketing efforts on an assignment basis.
• Verify invoices against contract activity.  Process invoices and coordinate payment to actual project assignments.
• Develop and manage and/or support project budgets, including expenses and anticipated income and/or retention outcomes.  

03 You Bring These Crucial Skills:

• Oral and Written Communication: Effectively expresses ideas, thoughts and concepts verbally and in writing, using correct grammar, organization and structure, and effective presentation media and techniques. Use appropriate media and approach.
• Planning and Organizing: Establishes a systematic course of action for self or others to ensure the accomplishment of a specific objective. Determines priorities and allocates time and resources effectively.
• Budgeting: Understands fundamentals of complex organizational budgeting.
• Collaboration: Works successfully with others to deliver the best outcomes. Attention to Accuracy: Through the process of fact-checking and proofreading, demonstrates a concern and commitment to accuracy and attention to detail.
• Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes situations and/or issues, considers options, develops and decides on solutions, recommends and/or implements and monitors appropriate solutions.
• Deadline Orientation: Works effectively in a deadline-driven environment, meeting or exceeding time and quality expectations.
• Results Orientation: Drives for quality results and success; demonstrates a sense of urgency in achieving goals; persists despite obstacles.

Additional Skills We Are Interested In:

• Donor-centric approach.
• Proven ability to think and act logically and creatively.
• Proven ability to work quickly and effectively balance multiple priorities.
• Proven ability to see the big picture while fulfilling responsibilities.

04 Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, or related field or 8 years of equivalent work experience. 
• In addition, this role requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in marketing, fundraising, or a related area. 
• Experience with direct mail campaigns preferred.

05 Salary Range & Benefits Your compensation and benefits are important to you so they’re important to us. $66,700 – $100,100. Applies to locations with a market similar to our U.S. HQ in the Greater Seattle area. A different range may apply based on your work location. The typical hiring range is $70,000 - $83,000. Job offers within the range are based on relevant job qualifications and pay equity. World Vision employees see our Salary Administration Guidelines and My Life My Benefits pages on our organization intranet known as The Vine. Please indicate the range you're targeting when asked during the application process. In addition, we have a robust and comprehensive benefits package to round out our total compensation package. Click here to learn more (this position is a grade 223). Additionally, merit, auto allowance, and relocation are available to eligible employees based on existing plans.  

06 Where this job could take your career World Vision U.S. is a part of the larger World Vision International partnership. Globally, we have 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries. About 1000 of us call World Vision U.S. home. You'll have opportunities to advance within our robust and talented group of technologists as you continue to stretch and grow your career for the future.    

07 About World Vision U.S. When you work at World Vision, your passions and talents come together to help meet the greatest needs in the world today. We tackle poverty at its roots, with a focus on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. Our staff around the world are committed to demonstrating God’s unconditional love for all people by serving every child we can, of any faith or none. And we’re one of the world’s most trusted charities, with more than 70 years of experience working alongside communities, donors, partners, and governments to create opportunities for better futures for vulnerable children ... even in the toughest places. Are you feeling called to explore joining us? We hope so.    

08 Let your work be your faith in action In 2021 an estimated 5 million children under the age of 5 years died, mostly from preventable and treatable causes (USAID, WHO). That’s why we’re looking for someone ready to place their expertise behind helping the world’s most vulnerable children. Every collaboration, every efficiency, and every marketing touchpoint can influence whether someone chooses to help today or not. If not you, then who? 

09 To Apply Press the appropriate button on this page.    

10 What happens next? Glad you asked. We owe you that and strive to not leave you wondering. We review applications nearly every day assessing the strength of fit for the role. Sometimes questions arise on our end so we message you to learn more. Short-listed candidates are contacted for an initial conversation with our recruiting staff. Moving deeper into our selection process you can expect to interview 1:1 with a hiring manager. Finalists normally participate in a panel interview where the opportunity to meet additional members of our staff lends itself to a 360-degree view of the role. Our most valuable resource is our talented staff. Our goal is to fill this vacancy with the right person in the shortest amount of time so our team is fully staffed to move this important work forward.