Marketing Project Operations Specialist
Trimble
Position Location: Chennai, IN
Experience Level: 3-5 Years | P2
Marketing Team: Marketing Strategic Initiatives - Marketing PMO
Reports to: Manager, Marketing PMO
About the Role
The Marketing Project Operations Specialist serves as the technical architect and functional lead of our marketing execution ecosystem. Reporting into the Office of the PMO, you are the engine behind our operational efficiency, ensuring that high-level strategies are translated into seamless, automated, and scalable workflows within our core technology stack (e.g., Wrike, Jira).
Your mission is to eliminate "work about work." You don’t just manage tasks; you build the intelligent systems that move them for us. By designing sophisticated automated workflows, deploying AI agents to handle routine administrative overhead, and maintaining rigorous data hygiene, you ensure our reporting is flawless and our team velocity is unmatched.
In a complex enterprise environment, you act as the "Force Multiplier." By perfecting our digital infrastructure and automating the mundane, you empower our creative and growth teams to reclaim their time and focus on their highest-value work: driving global revenue and brand impact.
Key Responsibilities
1. Platform Architecture & AdministrationEnsure that our tools are not just repositories for tasks, but high-performance engines for enterprise data
Serve as the platform steward, managing permission hierarchies, folder taxonomies, and custom metadata to maintain a "Single Source of Truth."
Manage technical debt, consolidating fragmented workflows and pruning legacy metadata to keep the platform performant as the organization scales.
Partner with cross-functional teams to build and refine workflows, project lifecycles and more in compliance with the Office of the PMO
Develop and deploy AI agents and automation rules within the PM tool to streamline status updates, task assignments, and content routing.
Build and maintain low-code/no-code integrations (via Zapier, Workato, or native APIs) between marketing tools (e.g., CRM, DAM, and Communication tools).
Continuously audit workflows to identify bottlenecks and "dead zones" in the process.
Support overall Wrike administrative tasks
Translate project data into clear, automated dashboards that track team velocity, resource capacity, project health, and visual progress for leadership
Build and manage automated dashboards that track team velocity, resource capacity, and project health.
Provide the Office of the PMO with weekly "Health of the Stack" insights to support executive decision-making.
Continuously evolve and improve campaign planning, timelines, visualization tools, and workflow processes.
Act as the internal "help desk" for marketing team members troubleshooting tool issues.
Draft and maintain "How-To" documentation and SOPs for the marketing tech stack.
Onboard new hires to the marketing workflow, project management toolset and ensuring 100% adoption of PMO standards.
Qualifications & Skills
3-5 years in Marketing Operations, Project Management, or Business Systems. You have a proven track record of managing workflows in a complex, fast-paced enterprise environment.
Proficiency in enterprise work management tools (Wrike, Jira, or similar). You should be comfortable with advanced features like custom item types, request forms, and blueprint automation.
Demonstrated ability to translate messy, manual processes into clean, automated digital workflows. You understand the logic of dependencies, triggers, and conditional routing.
Practical experience (or a high degree of aptitude) in leveraging AI agents and LLMs to automate administrative tasks, such as auto-summarizing project briefs, optimizing task assignments and building workflows.
Ability to work independently on complex problems, providing creative solutions with minimal supervision.
Familiarity with low-code automation platforms (e.g., Zapier, Workato, or Make) to connect the PM stack with other tools (CRM, Slack, DAM).
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to convey clear information to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
A proactive, problem-solving mindset with a willingness to quickly learn new processes and navigate a highly matrixed, global business environment.
High integrity and humility—a willingness to proactively ask questions, seek clarification, and maintain accountability.
Proven experience and familiarity with a variety of marketing processes and workflows.
About Trimble
Dedicated to the world’s tomorrow, Trimble is a technology company delivering solutions that enable our customers to work in new ways to measure, build, grow and move goods for a better quality of life.
Trimble’s Inclusiveness Commitment
We believe in celebrating our differences. That is why our diversity is our strength. To us, that means actively participating in opportunities to be inclusive. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion have guided our current success while also moving our desire to improve. We actively seek to add members to our community who represent our customers and the places we live and work.
We have programs in place to make sure our people are seen, heard, and welcomed and most importantly that they know they belong, no matter who they are or where they are coming from.
How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the ‘Apply Now’ button located in this posting.
Join a Values-Driven Team: Belong, Grow, Innovate.
At Trimble, our core values of Belong, Grow, and Innovate aren't just words—they're the foundation of our culture. We foster an environment where you are seen, heard, and valued (Belong); where you have an opportunity to build a career and drive our collective growth (Grow); and where your innovative ideas shape the future (Innovate). We believe in empowering local teams to create impactful strategies, ensuring our global vision resonates with every individual. Become part of a team where your contributions truly matter.
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