Marketing Planning, Prioritization, M&A Manager

Responsibilities

• Serve as the overall marketing integration lead for acquisition-related initiatives and act as the primary point of contact between Marketing and the enterprise M&A program team.
• Coordinate all marketing integration workstreams, ensuring alignment, accountability, and execution across marketing functions throughout the transaction lifecycle.
• Facilitate weekly marketing integration meetings, maintain project plans, track milestones, manage risks and dependencies, and provide regular status updates to executive leadership and enterprise integration teams.
• Own and maintain marketing integration governance, including project documentation, reporting, dashboards, action logs, decision tracking, and integration schedules utilizing project management tools such as Smartsheet.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve a comprehensive M&A Marketing Integration Playbook that standardizes:
• Integration timelines
• Marketing workstreams
• Communication frameworks
• Brand transition processes
• Customer experience considerations
• Digital and collateral consolidation
• Governance and approval structures
• Reporting and escalation processes
• Create and continuously improve scalable frameworks that reduce integration complexity and improve speed-to-integration
• Ensure acquired customers experience clear, coordinated, and customer-centric communications throughout transition periods
• Coordinate marketing support plans for acquisition-related activity in FNBO growth markets
• Portfolio Planning & Prioritization Practices
• Improve marketing effectiveness through managing marketing planning and prioritization practices.
• Manage planning and prioritization practices across marketing functions
• Leverage best practices that improve planning consistency and reduce duplication of effort
• Monitor and continuously improve marketing operational KPIs and success metrics.
• Ensure measurable outcomes are central part of planning and prioritization practices that articulate choices and tradeoffs.
• Help teams balance short-term execution needs with long-term strategic priorities
• Support quarterly and annual planning processes by organizing inputs, tracking decisions, and maintaining accountability structures
• Help teams critically evaluate priorities based on :
• Strategic alignment
• Business impact
• Customer impact
• Capacity and resourcing
• Risk and urgency
• Provide centralized visibility into key marketing initiatives, dependencies, timelines, and resource demands
• Identify opportunities to streamline workflows and improve cross-functional coordination
• Collaboration and Strategic Execution
• Reporting to a member of the marketing leadership team, this individual will work collaboratively to execute against strategic priorities rather than setting enterprise strategy independently.
• This role will partner across marketing disciplines and business teams to ensure:
• Plans are operationally realistic
• Adoption is high
• Communication is clear
• Teams remain aligned
• Execution is efficient and measurable
• The ideal candidate is highly organized, comfortable navigating ambiguity, skilled at bui

Additional Information

At FNBO, our employees are the heart of our story-and we're committed to their success! Please see below the details of this career opportunity and how it fits into our organization's success. Summary of the Job: The Marketing Planning, Prioritization & M&A Manager plays a pivotal role in bringing operational discipline and strategic clarity to FNBO's marketing organization during a period of significant growth. This position manages two interconnected priorities: 1. Managing marketing integration activities for mergers and acquisitions 2. Managing marketing planning and prioritization practices that improve how marketing evaluates, sequences, and executes work. The role ensures that as FNBO grows through acquisition and expansion, marketing maintains the operational rigor and strategic focus needed to deliver measurable business impact. About This Role: The ideal candidate excels at creating order from complexity, building and managing frameworks that scale, and fostering alignment across diverse stakeholders. This role requires someone who can balance strategic perspective with tactical execution, navigate ambiguity with confidence, and drive adoption of new practices through influence and collaboration. Core Responsibilities 1. M&A Marketing Integration Leadership Lead and coordinate marketing integration activities associated with mergers and acquisitions to ensure a seamless transition for customers, employees, and stakeholders.

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