Lead, Email Marketing Technology

The World Economic Forum, committed to improving the state of the world, is the international organization for public-private cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.

The Global Communications Group is the central Forum team dedicated to communications with the public, media, stakeholders and staff in relation to the Forum’s mission. Through multiple channels, the Group is responsible for communicating the work of the Forum and its constituents, reaching, growing, engaging and inspiring diverse and interested audiences.

The Group is composed of four key functions:
Communication Strategy and Coordination, Public Engagement, Media Engagement, and Stakeholder Engagement. It is searching for a Lead, Email Marketing Technology within the Stakeholder Engagement team, to support with project management, lead technology implementations, drive enhanced analytics capabilities and provide operational support for execution of institutional communications across a variety of Forum activities. Its objective is to generate seamless, consistently high-value, personalized email communications to Forum Stakeholders.

The role will report to the Head, Email Marketing. The candidate will work closely with our internal stakeholders in Event Strategy and Engagement, Partner- and Member Engagement teams, Marketing Content, Business Operations and Information Technology.

• Deliver on projects related to the next generation of email marketing infrastructure, integrating new email apps, AI functionalities, and a new data management system (Data 360) to deliver intuitive, scalable integrations.
• Utilize project management skills to deliver personalized email journeys, smart automations and new newsletter initiatives.
• Key lead on the technical deliveries of Marketing Cloud and Account Engagement (formerly Pardot) to implement new email solutions, journeys, and tools as part of the annual project roadmap including hands‑on development support.
• Run workshops for new initiatives, developing the project from insights gathering, scoping of requirements, until final implementation.
• Design project plans and present to key senior stakeholders and leadership for project sign off and budget sponsoring.
• Set up cross‑functional collaboration streams to coordinate with various functions from the Global Communication Group and internal technology teams to ensure smooth campaign execution.
• Serve as the marketing technology champion to identify issues and areas for improvement, as well as recommending solutions and proactively contributing to the team’s roadmap.
• Manage proactive email deliverability management, protocols and apply best practices for optimized IP reputation and domain management.
• Enhance the analytics capabilities of the Forum email marketing activities and manage the full technical delivery of new dashboards by streamlining various data sources to one central analytic output (Tableau, Databricks).
• Manage the weekly reporting of email campaigns through automated reports while covering key highlights, and create new reports as needed for the Central Email Marketing team as well as for the pool of Forum decentralized communications experts.
• Support the data architect expert and provide recommendations and solutions for the Forum’s ever evolving CRM platform and email marketing platform.
• Assure pro‑active data analysis and monitoring of campaign metrics (email volume, email engagement), and present in a timely manner the evolution of email performance with a cadence of quarterly, half‑year and annual reporting, with the ability to contextualize trends.
• Manage end‑to‑end email creation and execution of various high‑level Forum communications including events, newsletters and institutional messages.
• Identify and drive opportunities to optimize and streamline existing operational processes, embedding AI capabilities and intelligent automation to enhance efficiency, scalability, and performance across the marketing technology ecosystem.
• Implement an A/B testing…