Marketing Operations Director, Lead Lifecycle & Marketing Analytics at nVent – St Louis Park | Jobyssey

We’re looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success – and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.

WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE IN THIS POSITION:

Own nVent’s enterprise lead path to revenue strategy and governance

Architect the end‑to‑end lead lifecycle, from anonymous engagement through MQL, SQL, opportunity, and marketing‑influenced and marketing‑sourced revenue.
Establish global standards, definitions, SLAs, and decision frameworks that ensure consistency across regions, business units, and platforms.
Partner with Sales, Sales Operations, Digital IT, Enterprise Marketing, and Segment Marketing to align funnel stages, routing logic, scoring models, and conversion expectations.

Build and scale a Marketing Operations & Analytics Center of Excellence

Develop governance, intake processes, prioritization frameworks, and operating models that enable marketing teams to execute efficiently and consistently.
Create training, playbooks, and enablement programs that elevate operational maturity across global marketing teams.
Lead a high‑performing team responsible for campaign operations, lead management, analytics, and performance insights.

Lead enterprise marketing analytics strategy

Define how marketing performance is measured across channels, campaigns, segments, and geographies.
Establish dashboards, KPIs, attribution models, and reporting frameworks that translate data into actionable insights for executives and business leaders.
Partner with Enterprise Data & Analytics, Finance, Sales, Sales Ops, Digital IT, Enterprise Marketing, and Segment Marketing to ensure data quality, platform alignment, and consistent measurement across systems.

Drive operational excellence across platforms and processes

Collaborate with Digital IT (technical platform owners), Sales Ops, and Marketing Technology (business product owners) to optimize MarTech systems supporting lead flow, analytics, and campaign execution.
Lead cross‑functional initiatives that improve data capture, routing, scoring, segmentation, and reporting.
Ensure marketing operations processes scale effectively as nVent expands globally.

Enable teams without owning day‑to‑day execution

Influence and guide global marketing teams to adopt operational best practices, analytics frameworks, and lead management standards.
Provide strategic direction while empowering regional teams to execute within a consistent enterprise model.
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior marketing leaders, helping them make data‑driven decisions that accelerate growth.

Align demand generation, paid media, and analytics efforts

Partner with segment and regional marketing, and agency teams to ensure campaigns are built on strong operational foundations and measurable KPIs.
Integrate lead path strategy with paid and organic efforts to maximize conversion and pipeline impact.
Support enterprise demand and lead‑generation objectives through operational rigor and insight‑driven optimization.

YOU HAVE:

Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Analytics, or equivalent professional experience.
15+ years of experience in marketing, marketing operations, demand generation operations, or revenue operations within a matrixed or global enterprise environment is highly preferred.
5+ years leading teams in marketing operations, analytics, or lead management is highly preferred.
Proven experience designing and governing enterprise lead lifecycles, funnel definitions, routing logic, and conversion optimization.
Strong understanding of B2B marketing analytics, attribution, KPI frameworks, and performance measurement.
Experience partnering with technical teams on MarTech platform improvements, data quality initiatives, and digital transformation.
Fluency with marketing and analytics platforms (e.g., Salesforce, Marketo/Eloqua/Pardot, Power BI/Tableau, Google Analytics, ABM platforms, data enrichment platforms).
Exceptional ability to translate complex operational and analytical concepts into clear, executive‑ready insights.
Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning and staying current with evolving marketing operations and analytics practices.
B2B experience working within an industrial manufacturer preferred.

WE HAVE:

A dynamic global reach with diverse operations around the world that will stretch your abilities, provide plentiful career opportunities, and allow you to make an impact every day
- nVent is a leading global provider of electrical connection and protection solutions. We believe our inventive electrical solutions enable safer systems and ensure a more secure world. We design, manufacture, market, install and service high performance products and solutions that connect and protect some of the world's most sensitive equipment, buildings and critical processes. We offer a comprehensive range of systems protection and electrical connections solutions across industry-leading brands that are recognized globally for quality, reliability and innovation.
- Our principal office is in London and our management office in the United States is in Minneapolis. Our robust portfolio of leading electrical product brands dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, ILSCO, SCHROFF and TRACHTE. Learn more at .

Commitment to strengthen communities where our employees live and work
- We encourage and support the philanthropic activities of our employees worldwide
- Through our nVent in Action matching program, we provide funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money

Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers. We’re known for being:
- Innovative & adaptable
- Dedicated to absolute integrity
- Focused on the customer first
- Respectful and team oriented
- Optimistic and energizing
- Accountable for performance

Benefits to support the lives of our employees

Pay Transparency

nVent’s pay scale is based on the expected range of base pay for this job and the employee’s work location. Employee pay within this range will be based on a combination of factors including knowledge, skills, abilities, experience, education, and performance. Where federal, state, or local minimum wage requirements exist, employee pay will comply.

Compensation Range:

$172,900.00 - $257,000.00

Depending on the position offered, employee may be eligible for other forms of compensation, such as annual incentives.

Benefit Overview

At nVent, we value our people and their health and well-being. We provide a broad benefits package with meaningful programs for eligible full-time employees that includes:

Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance.
A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan — both include a company match.
Other supplemental benefits may include tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back-up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well-being program, and/or legal & identity theft protection.

At nVent, we connect and protect our customers with inventive electrical solutions. People are our most valuable asset. Inclusion and diversity means that we celebrate and encourage each other’s authenticity because we understand that uniqueness sparks growth.

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