Content Manager Jobs in Kansas

INTRODUCTION

Koch Communications Marketing is seeking a Marketing Project Manager to oversee the operational backbone for strategic marketing programs, video, and web. This role partners closely with various internal stakeholders to drive complex cross-functional initiatives that span creative, editorial, video, web, and digital. The ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional attention to detail, adaptability, prioritization skills, risk management capabilities, and effective communication in a dynamic and creative work environment.

OUR TEAM

Koch Communications and Marketing (KCM) creates value through effective communication and global marketing for Koch and its companies. Largely based in Wichita, Kansas, we also have teammates and businesses located in Atlanta, Georgia, and across the globe. Our collaborative team includes strategic communication and digital marketing professionals, designers, copywriters, video professionals, web developers, project managers and more. Here, you are encouraged to use and grow your skills in ways that are personally fulfilling and mutually beneficial for you, our customers, communities, businesses and partners.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

This role is responsible for helping to inform strategy and drive operational improvements across Koch Communications & Marketing (KCM) while advancing projects in a creative marketing environment as efficiently as possible. Alongside KCM's Creative Operations team, you will facilitate work through ensuring clear objectives, clarifying and enforcing processes, allocating resources efficiently, and communicating with multiple parties and stakeholders.

STRATEGIC PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

- Lead complex, multi-work stream projects spanning content strategy, editorial, web development, digital, and paid media - from request through final retrospective.
- Create and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, budgets, and resource allocations; manage scope changes with clear documentation and stakeholder alignment.
- Drive visibility into project health across leadership and stakeholder groups; proactively identify risks, resurface prioritization tensions, and recommend solutions before issues escalate.
- Facilitate cross-functional alignment meetings with clear agendas, defined decision-makers, and actionable outcomes - ensuring the right people are at the right conversations at the right time.

PROCESS OPTIMIZATION

- Design, document, and continuously improve project management processes, workflows, and best practices within Adobe Workfront - including intake, capacity management, and reporting frameworks.
- Model excellence in process discipline and share knowledge to elevate the team's overall operational capability; educate and support our partners and team members to drive economic thinking and better understand our creative process.
- Improve efficiency and transparency by standardizing workflows, briefs, and reporting practices.
- Serve as a Workfront subject-matter expert, driving platform adoption, optimization, and reporting maturity.
- Use data and insights to inform forecasting, resourcing, and operational decisions.
- Evaluate and recommend tools, templates, and methodology improvements that increase efficiency, visibility, and accountability across the creative operations function.

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL STAKEHOLDER PARTNERSHIP

- Collaborate with Creative Direction, Engagement Strategy, Creative and Digital teams to ensure projects are set up for creative and operational success from the start.
- Establish and maintain strong communication with internal business stakeholders, providing consistent updates on project status, milestones, and decisions needed.
- Prioritize effectively in a fast-paced environment and respectfully raise awareness when scope, capacity, or timeline expectations are misaligned - followed with an alternative solution that meets a partner's needs.
- Partner with the Director of Creative Operations and Video to inform process improvements across KCM.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in a similar role within a marketing agency (or an in-house agency), balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution
- Working experience within Adobe Workfront's work management system (project management, billing, and/or reporting)
- Superior organizational skills, a solutions-oriented mindset, and strong interpersonal communication skills
- Experience successfully leading multiple complex projects simultaneously under time/budget constraints
- Demonstrated experience related to websites, video production, and marketing campaigns

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Workfront Admin Experience

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

HIRING PHILOSOPHY

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

WHO WE ARE

Koch creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs about 120,000 employees across the globe.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

OUR BENEFITS

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).