Job Details

Why Work Here?

"Mission driven, great benefits and room for growth!"

Why consider AORN, Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, as the next place for your career as our Marketing Project Manager, Industry & Enterprise Events? Because we're innovative and all about quality and collaboration - we're continually seeking to enhance our offerings to allow us to better tailor to the needs of our nurse members while expanding our market position and growing revenue across our business and sales divisions.

Our mission is to define, support, and advocate for patient and staff safety through exemplary practice for each phase of perioperative nursing care using evidence-based guidelines, continuing education, and clinical practice resources. We collaborate with professional and regulatory organizations, industry leaders, and other health care partners who support our mission. Our culture is one of openness, teamwork, risk taking and being at the cutting edge of our field and we only look for employees who hold these same traits.

Values mean more to AORN than just bullets on a page. They drive our daily decisions and impact how we work as an organization:

• Innovation: Taking courageous and bold actions for growth and sustainability.
• Communication: Exemplifying respect, collaboration, transparency and honesty.
• Quality: Ensuring accountability and excellence.
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusiveness: Promoting fairness, valuing differences, considering all perspectives.
• Achievement: Achieving our mission, realizing the vision.

Our Marketing Project Manager, Industry & Enterprise Events provides essential project coordination, workflow management, quality control, and execution support for the Sr Manager, Segment Marketing and the broader Marketing department. The role ensures that campaigns, deliverables, and cross-departmental initiatives for the Industry and Enterprise Events Lines of Business are planned in collaboration with department stakeholders, marketing leadership, organized, and completed on time, within scope and budget, and aligned to AORN's strategic objectives.

This position serves as the operational backbone of the Industry and Enterprise Events marketing function by driving timelines, coordinating asset and campaign element production and publication with creative and digital teams, ensuring alignment with internal clients, monitoring KPIs, and supporting high-quality delivery across all marketing channels. The Marketing Project Manager plays a critical role in enabling the Sr Manager, Segment Marketing to focus on strategy, segmentation, messaging, and market insights by ensuring smooth execution and strong cross-functional communication and collaboration.

AORN is based in Denver, CO. Our Marketing Project Manager, Industry & Enterprise Events will work remotely.

More about what you'll get to do as our Marketing Project Manager, Industry & Enterprise Events:

• Coordinate the planning, scheduling, and execution of integrated marketing campaigns supporting customer growth, engagement, and retention.
• Manage project plans, timelines, workflows, budgets, and task assignments across creative, digital, web, analytics, and sales teams.
• Serve as the primary operational point of contact for Industry and Enterprise Events Lines of Business project intake and ensure alignment with quarterly planning set by the Sr Manager, Segment Marketing.
• Manage the completion of creative briefs that set forth customer profiles, decisions processes, messaging strategies, and more insights critical to developing highly relevant and actionable campaigns across channels.
• Track status of all active marketing projects, campaigns, and deliverables; proactively identify risks, dependencies, and roadblocks.
• Collaborate closely with creative, web, digital, events, and sales teams to ensure timely and accurate delivery of assets, content, and campaign components.
• Facilitate project handoffs, kickoffs, and review cycles to ensure clarity of goals, messaging, assets, and timelines.
• Ensure all marketing outputs meet AORN's brand, regulatory, and quality standards, working closely with the creative team to assure adherence to brand standards and values.
• Ensure all assets for all projects (copy, design, web content, collateral, email sequences, social assets) move through appropriate review and approval processes within the marketing team and among LOB stakeholders.
• Maintain organized repositories of campaign materials, templates, creative briefs, and historical project documentation in SharePoint or other assigned folders.
• Assist with preparing and updating audience insights, objectives, success metrics, and key messaging as assigned by the Sr Manager, Segment Marketing.
• Support the Sr Manager, Segment Marketing in compiling campaign performance metrics, dashboards, and post-campaign reports, and preparing and maintaining playbooks for industry sales team.
• Track KPIs (engagement, acquisition, renewal, conversion, leads, ROI) and assist with analyzing trends and identifying risks and opportunities to optimize spends and resources.
• Support management of project intake processes, prioritization frameworks, and resource allocation.
• Maintain competing priorities, shifting timelines, and multiple projects.
• Assist the segment team in evaluating marketing technology tools, workflows, or systems to improve efficiency.
• Provide meeting summaries, project progress reports and documentation, milestone tracking, and follow-up communications for Industry and Enterprise Events marketing initiatives.
• Assist with preparation of presentations, collateral, or briefing materials for internal and external partners.
• Other duties as assigned.

Must Have's to be our Marketing Project Manager, Industry & Enterprise Events:

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, communications, project management or related field. A combination of education and work experience may substitute for the bachelor's degree.
• Minimum of 3 - 4 years of project management or marketing operations experience, ideally in healthcare (medical industry, hospitals/health systems, or related healthcare industries) or associations.
• Experience working with marketing tools such as CMS, CRM, marketing automation, workflow/project management platforms and analytics dashboards.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in an agency setting, internal or external.
• Familiarity with integrated marketing campaigns, digital marketing workflows, marketing AI functionality, and cross-functional creative processes.
• PMP, CPM, or equivalent project management certification.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Strong project management capabilities, including timeline creation, tracking, documentation, and communication.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects with strong attention to detail and organization.
• Strong communication, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with team members at all levels, including creative, digital, sales, and LOB leaders.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining a high level of quality.
• Knowledge of healthcare industry dynamics.
• Ability to demonstrate and hold others accountable for organizational values of: Innovation, Communication, Quality, Diversity, Equity and inclusion, and Achievement.

Here are some of the excellent benefits we offer and why it's so great to work here!

• Health insurance package options that include a HDHP plan and a PPO plan.
• Dental and vision coverage.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Healthcare Savings Account (HSA) options.
• Employer paid short- and long-term disability, accidental death and dismemberment, and life insurance coverage.
• Voluntary Life Insurance options including critical illness and accident insurance.
• 401(k) plan with immediate vesting.
• Pet insurance.
• Udemy Learning.
• Paid time off and 10 paid holidays per year.
• Paid sick time.
• Paid parental leave.
• Free subscription to Calm.
• Up to 8 hours of paid volunteer time.
• Employee Assistance Programs.
• Staff Incentive Bonus.

WORKING CONDITIONS
Remote work environment, using a computer, telephone and other office equipment daily. Ability to travel as needed to support departmental and Association functions.

FLSA Status: Exempt

Application Deadline: Applications will be accepted until the position is filled or a sufficient number of applications has been received.

AORN provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. We encourage people with disabilities and from other diverse backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate based on disability.