AVP, Marketing Strategic Initiatives

About The Role

We are seeking a dynamic and strategic AVP, Marketing Strategic Initiatives, to be a force multiplier for the Chief Marketing Officer and a key driver of transformation across the global Marketing organization. This is a high-impact role suited for a seasoned professional who blends operational excellence with strategic vision and change leadership.

You will operate at the intersection of executive decision-making, marketing strategy, and transformation delivery—ensuring the seamless orchestration of initiatives that position the marketing function for future growth and innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor and thought partner to the CMO—helping drive focus, clarity, and results.
• Lead the operating cadence for the CMO and Marketing Leadership Team (MLT), including staff meetings, business reviews, leadership offsites, and board prep.
• Manage prioritization of initiatives and decision support for the CMO to maximize leadership bandwidth and impact.
• Provide guidance on resourcing, org design, and internal communications to align teams with the evolving marketing agenda.
• Lead a high-impact shared services team to deliver cross-functional marketing initiatives with speed at scale and establish Marketing Centers of Excellence (COEs)
• Standardize processes and toolsets to increase speed to market, drive consistency, and optimize the marketing investment portfolio.
• Introduce and manage marketing KPIs and dashboards to enable visibility and accountability across teams.
• Build a forward-looking marketing roadmap that anticipates emerging trends, customer needs, and competitive dynamics.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to build business cases for investment and performance tracking frameworks.
• Lead end-to-end orchestration of the marketing transformation program—operating as the “chief integrator” across workstreams.
• Coordinate high-priority change initiatives (e.g., MarTech upgrades, AI strategy, talent architecture, agile operating model).
• Champion organizational effectiveness efforts—embedding agile ways of working and future-fit capability models.
• Serve as a change agent for embedding new processes, systems, and mindsets into the culture.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in strategy, marketing operations, transformation leadership, or management consulting.
• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or equivalent experience preferred.
• Proven success in a Chief of Staff, Senior Marketing Leader, or Marketing Executive role—preferably in a large, matrixed Fortune 500 organization.
• The ability to move seamlessly between high-level strategy and tactical execution, connecting marketing activities directly to core business outcomes.
• Deep understanding of modern enterprise marketing across brand, digital, customer insights, MarTech, and content ecosystems.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence senior leaders and clearly articulate complex concepts across all levels of the organization.
• Skilled in organizational change, cross-functional collaboration, and transformation delivery.
• Experience designing or scaling shared services or CoEs.
• Demonstrated comfort with AI, digital innovation, and emerging marketing technologies.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data, translate metrics into actionable insights, and make informed, data-driven decisions.

Compensation:  Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

Hiring Range

$201,294.00–$271,890.00

Pay Rate Type

Salary

Bonus Eligible?

Yes

Commission Eligible?

No

Benefits:  Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.

How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the ‘Apply Now’ button located in this posting.

Posting Date

10/08/2025

Application Deadline: Applications could be accepted until at least 30 days from the posting date.

At Trimble, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Guided by our core values—Belong, Innovate, and Grow—we embrace and celebrate differences, knowing they make us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and advancing opportunities while embracing race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other protected and diverse characteristic. We are committed to offering our candidates and employees with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs the ability to seek reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and/or where it would not constitute undue hardship for Trimble. For more, please see Trimble's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics at https://investor.trimble.com, under “Corporate Governance.”

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