Marketing Operations Specialist

Title: Marketing Operations Specialist

Location: The Woodlands, TX, US, 77380

Workplace: Marketing Operations Specialist

Department: Marketing

Work Type: Hybrid
Job ID: 33371

Job Description:

A Place Where People Matter. 

Start your career journey with Univar Solutions!  Here you can make an impact on the world around you and accelerate your career in areas that energize and excite you. 

 

We are looking for a motivated Marketing Operations Specialist to join our Ingredients + Specialties (I+S) team!

 

In this role, you will support the seamless execution of global marketing campaigns, coordinating timelines, processes, and communication across internal teams and external vendors to ensure projects are successfully delivered.

 

You’ll play a key part in optimizing workflows, managing vendor relationships, and supporting a wide range of marketing activities—from social media and events to creative production. If you're organized, proactive, and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this is an excellent opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

 

What You'll Do

• Supervise the timely implementation of various initiatives, applying project management tools to actively coordinate with Marketing Managers, Marketing Leadership, and Agency teams.

• Proactively communicate deadlines, next steps, process/protocol and issues across global teams and stakeholders.

• Have a creative agency oversight, managing the relationships with external agencies to ensure effective and efficient brand compliance and creative execution, while monitoring progress to confirm tasks are achieved on time and within project scope to the satisfaction of internal customers.

• Onboard new team members by providing live training demos and resources for a collaborative environment.

• Help with projects across the marketing communications team as needed, including but not limited to: social media, tradeshows/events, media relations, advertising, and research.

• Be the point-of-contact for image download and translation requests, ensuring proper upload/download, file naming and management.

• Coordinate global marketing-related vendor setup and invoice processing, including vendor onboarding, PO creation/management, and invoice tracking.

 

What You'll Need

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in marketing, communications, business, project management, or relevant fields.

• Experience in a large, global, complex organization.

• Certified Project Management accreditation (not required).

• Experience using Wrike, Magento, Corcentric, Sharepoint and/or Hopin platforms is preferred.

• Highly adaptable and self-motivated with a desire for continuous learning and improvement.

• Proven project management, problem-solving and relationship-building skills deployed across large and complex organizations.

Where you’ll work

This is a Hybrid opportunity - two days in the office and three days working from home. Office location: The Woodlands, TX.

Univar Solutions is a leading, global distributor of chemicals and ingredients essential to the safety, health, and wellbeing of our daily lives from life-saving medicines and vitamins to hand sanitizers and industrial materials used for cleaning, construction, and more.  Our team of more than 9,500 employees supports our vision to redefine distribution and be the most valued chemical and ingredient distributor in the world!

 

We offer a Total Rewards package that includes market-aligned pay and incentives as well as a diverse benefits offering to support our employees’ physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.

 

Univar Solutions supports sustainable solutions for the world around us so that we can do our part to help keep our communities healthy, fed, clean, and safe! 

 

We are committed to a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion.  Together, we are building a culture that acknowledges the unique experiences, perspectives and expertise of individuals and provides the development and growth opportunities to empower us to redefine our industry. 

 

Univar Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on their race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected classification.

 

Univar Solutions does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or staffing firms (collectively Recruiting Firms). Recruiting Firms must enter into a Master Services Agreement (MSA) with Univar Solutions prior to submitting any information relating to a potential candidate. All searches must be initiated by Univar Solutions' Talent Acquisition team and candidates must be submitted via Applicant Tracking System (ATS) by approved vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless the aforementioned conditions have been met. Contacting our hiring managers directly is prohibited.