Marketing Operations Manager

SPORTS IMPORTS MARKETING OPERATIONS MANAGER

Pay Range: $90,000 - $100,000

Sports Imports, an industry leader in volleyball equipment design, engineering, and manufacturing since 1976, became a 100% employee-owned business in 2023. Focused on providing a customer-centric experience and product excellence for all levels of play, the company has partnered exclusively with Senoh since its inception. Sports Imports revolutionized the sport with innovative products, including the first all-carbon volleyball pole, known for its strength, safety, and Lifetime Performance Warranty.

As a trusted supplier, they are the official net system provider for NCAA, NJCAA, USAV, NFHS, and AVCA, and have earned the confidence of over 92% of Division I programs and provided more than 50,000 net systems to high schools across the U.S.

At Sports Imports, we value innovation, creativity, and problem-solving, driven by our core values:
Honoring the Customer, Excellence, Team First, Integrity, Heart, and Grit. We offer a fast-paced environment with opportunities to engage in the sports community through trade shows, events, and partnerships. Our team is encouraged to take initiative, think creatively, and pursue growth, fostering collaboration and the sharing of new ideas.

We are actively searching for an Integrated Marketing & Operations Manager to serve as the operational and people leadership layer of the marketing department, ensuring strategic initiatives are effectively translated into coordinated, prioritized, and executed plans across all marketing functions — including direct ownership of external partnership and sponsorship relationships.

This role serves as the connective layer between strategic leadership and departmental execution — managing a team while owning the partner relationships, cross-functional programs, and operational systems that keep the department running at full capacity.

As a 100% employee-owned company, we believe our team should have the opportunity to share in our success. In addition to competitive base compensation, this role offers quarterly incentive opportunities and profit-sharing to earn additional income based on company and individual performance.

• Provide day-to-day operational leadership for the marketing department
• Manage departmental workflows, prioritization, and execution coordination
• Ensure accountability and follow-through across marketing initiatives & deliverables
• Facilitate communication, alignment and visibility across marketing functions
• Identify and help resolve workflow bottlenecks, ownership gaps, and operational challenges
• Manage up by proactively organizing, escalating, and synthesizing priorities and needs
• Ensure reporting cadences and accountability structures remain organized and consistent
• Support operational organization of metrics and performance discussions
• Directly manage day-to-day departmental team leadership responsibilities across marketing function
• Support professional development, coaching, mentorship, and performance growth of team members
• Help prioritize workloads and ensure team alignment across initiatives and business priorities
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, and growth-oriented team culture
• Support team organization, resource planning, and operational effectiveness across the department

• Translate strategic direction into actionable execution plans
• Coordinate integrated initiatives (e.g. product launches, major company initiatives) across digital, creative, content, partnerships, and sales support. Sometimes serve as the lead and other times assign leadership and provide oversight.
• Ensure timelines,…