# Marketing Strategy & Planning Specialist

**Company**: Elastic
**Location**: Canada
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $68,200-$107,900 CAD
**Category**: Marketing
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale , unleashing the potential of businesses and people.

We're looking for a Marketing Strategy & Planning Specialist to join the Global Growth and Experiences Marketing (GGEM) team. You'll report to the Head of Strategy & Planning (Chief of Staff), and work closely with the VP and senior leaders in the GGEM team.

**Responsibilities**

### Budget & Financial Operations

- Help oversee the global growth and experiential marketing budget: track spend against plan, reconcile actuals, and flag variances early.

- Partner with Finance and regional marketing teams on forecasting, accruals, and quarterly budget reviews.

- Help hold marketing teams accountable to finance best practices and standards.

- Use finance and planning tools to track budgets, spend, and approvals.

- Build clear budget summaries and trackers for leaders.

### Team Culture & Connection

- Own team culture programs, including planning and running all-hands.

- Create moments that bring a globally distributed team together.

- Build solid relationships across the department.

- Help people work better together by connecting the right folks.

### Project & Program Coordination

- Coordinate special projects on behalf of the group and VP.

- Keep projects organized with clear plans and status updates.

- Spot risks and gaps early, and recommend paths forward.

### Communication & Executive Support

- Write concise emails, updates, and presentations for various audiences.

- Prepare materials for business reviews and leadership meetings.

- Handle confidential business and financial information with discretion.

- Help maintain the team's operating rhythm.

### Process & Tools

- Learn and use finance, planning, and project management tools.

- Suggest ways to simplify and speed up processes.

**Requirements**

- Experience in project coordination, program management, marketing operations, or finance operations.

- Strong attention to detail and project management skills.

- Persistence and good judgment.

- Discretion with confidential information.

- Comfort with numbers and budgets.

- Strong written and verbal communication.

- Real warmth and people skills.

- Comfort learning new software tools.

- Collaborative and proactive.

**Nice to Have**

- Experience planning team events or internal programs.

- Experience at a B2B or SaaS company.

- Exposure to marketing or field marketing.

- Familiarity with tools like G-Suite, Zoom, Slack, Workday Strategic Sourcing, and Allocadia.

**Compensation**

- The typical starting salary range for this role is: $68,200-$107,900 CAD

**Benefits**

- Competitive pay

- Health coverage for you and your family

- Flexible locations and schedules

- Generous number of vacation days

- Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 for financial donations and service

- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects

- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

## Skills

### Required
- project coordination
- program management
- marketing operations
- finance operations
- budgeting
- forecasting
- financial analysis
- communication
- project management

### Nice to have
- G-Suite
- Zoom
- Slack
- Workday Strategic Sourcing
- Allocadia

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