Senior Manager, Marketing Operations & Strategy

Job Description: Senior Manager, Marketing Operations & Strategy Location: Gliwice, Poland 🌍 About ESAB Founded in 1904, ESAB Corporation is a premier global leader in connected fabrication technology and gas control solutions. Our history of innovative products, workflow solutions, and the ESAB Business Excellence operating system enables our purpose of Shaping the World We Imagine ™. We’re looking for an exceptional operations leader to join our Global Marketing Communications team based in Gliwice, Poland. The Role This is a senior marketing operations leadership role. The Senior Manager, Marketing Operations & Strategy serves as the operational right hand to the Vice President of Global Marketing, ensuring the entire Marketing Communications department runs with precision, visibility, and momentum. You will own the systems, processes, resources, and financial infrastructure that allow a high-performing global marketing team to do its best work — and you will do it with minimal oversight, maximum initiative, and a genuine passion for making complex organizations operate better. You will manage a small team based in India — one focused on day-to-day financial execution, one on project and request management — and you will serve as the connective tissue between the VP and the department’s four core sub-functions: Product Marketing, Creative, Digital (website, paid media, analytics, content, and social), and regional Marketing Communications teams across North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, India, and Asia Pacific. This role reports directly to the Vice President of Global Marketing. What You’ll Own Department Operations & Strategy Own the architecture, governance, and adoption of Wrike, the department’s enterprise project management platform — ensuring every team uses it effectively, workflows are optimized, and the system provides real-time visibility into workload and project status across the global team. Serve as the operational liaison to the heads of Product Marketing, Creative, Digital, and regional Marketing Communications teams — maintaining daily contact, identifying operational friction, and driving solutions independently before escalating only what the VP needs to know. Keep the VP fully informed through concise, well-structured updates — shielding them from noise while ensuring nothing of consequence goes unaddressed. Anticipate needs, surface risks, and bring proposed solutions — not just problems.   Resource Manage ment Monitor and manage workload distribution across the global team, using time-tracking data to prevent overallocation and protect against burnout. Build and maintain resource models that translate historical actuals into accurate project estimates, giving stakeholders and business partners realistic timelines and delivery schedules. Produce regular operational reporting — project throughput, team utilization, capacity trends — and use that data to drive…