Marketing Budget & Governance Sr. Specialist
Motorola Mobility (a Lenovo Company)
Full-time, Location: São Paulo (Vila Olímpia), Brazil
About Motorola Mobility
Motorola Mobility, a Lenovo Company, is one of the world’s fastest-growing smartphone providers, delivering innovative, high-quality products designed with the global consumer in mind. Our teams are collaborative, data-driven, and focused on delivering impactful consumer experiences through analytics and insights.
Position Overview
Marketing Budget & Governance Sr. Specialist (LATAM)
Role Overview
This role is responsible for end‑to‑end marketing budget control, governance, and financial operations across LATAM.
Acts as the central owner of planning, execution, tracking, and compliance of marketing investments, ensuring accuracy, visibility, and maximum ROI across all initiatives.
Role Mission
Drive disciplined budget management and governance for LATAM Marketing, ensuring full control of investments, compliance with corporate processes, and data‑driven decision‑making to optimize performance and ROI.
Key Responsibilities
1. Budget Planning & Control
- Own the annual and quarterly marketing budget planning across LATAM (A&P, Co‑marketing, Trade, Marcom).
- Ensure accurate allocation, tracking, and re‑phasing of investments by country, category, and campaign.
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- Drive budget optimization to maximize ROI and efficiency across initiatives.
2. Financial Operations & Execution
- Oversee PR/PO lifecycle, including creation, approval flows, goods receipt, and invoice validation.
- Ensure SLA compliance for PR creation and budget allocation (e.g., timelines post‑approval).
- Partner with Finance and Procurement to ensure accuracy and timely execution of payments.
- Control alliance funding and co‑marketing reimbursements, ensuring high recovery rates.
3. Governance & Compliance
- Ensure full compliance with marketing governance processes (Anaplan, Ariba, audit requirements).
- Maintain proper documentation and proof of execution (POE) for all marketing investments.
- Drive adherence to policies to minimize audit risks, financial exposure, and non‑compliant activities.
- Standardize processes and templates across countries to ensure consistency and control.
4. Performance Tracking & Reporting
- Own budget reporting structure and cadence (weekly, monthly, quarterly).
- Develop and maintain dashboards (Power BI / reporting tools) for executive visibility.
- Track key KPIs such as:
- Budget utilization
- ROI / efficiency
- PR SLA compliance
- Reimbursement rates
- Translate financial data into clear executive storytelling and insights.
5. Cross‑Functional & Regional Leadership
- Act as the main point of contact between Marketing, Finance, Procurement, and Global teams.
- Drive alignment across all LATAM countries ensuring standardized execution.
- Lead budget governance routines (cadences, reviews, office hours).
- Support strategic decisions by providing budget scenarios and recommendations.
6. Process Improvement & Automation
- Identify inefficiencies in current budget processes and implement improvements.
- Driving automation of reporting and data flows to reduce manual work.
- Enhance tools usage (Anaplan, dashboards, governance systems) for greater control and accuracy.
Operations Management Expectations
- High ownership of end‑to‑end processes.
- Ability to influence without authority across functions and countries.
- Strong problem‑solving and decision‑making based on data.
- Executive communication skills with clear, structured storytelling.
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Business, Data Analytics, Statistics, Engineering, or related field
- 3+ years of experience in Marketing Operations, Finance, or Budget Management
- marketing analytics and follow us administrative process, or similar role
- Ability to operate in high complexity environments and manage multiple stakeholders.
- Advanced knowledge of budget planning tools (Anaplan preferred).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Advanced Excel skills
- Advanced English, (written and spoken)
- Latin America countries)
