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of the Job:
The Marketing Planning, Prioritization & M&A Manager plays a pivotal role in bringing operational discipline and strategic clarity to FNBO's marketing organization during a period of significant growth.
This position manages two interconnected priorities:
1. Managing marketing integration activities for mergers and acquisitions
2. Managing marketing planning and prioritization practices that improve how marketing evaluates, sequences, and executes work.
The role ensures that as FNBO grows through acquisition and expansion, marketing maintains the operational rigor and strategic focus needed to deliver measurable business impact.
About This Role:
The ideal candidate excels at creating order from complexity, building and managing frameworks that scale, and fostering alignment across diverse stakeholders. This role requires someone who can balance strategic perspective with tactical execution, navigate ambiguity with confidence, and drive adoption of new practices through influence and collaboration.
Core Responsibilities
1. M&A Marketing Integration Leadership
Lead and coordinate marketing integration activities associated with mergers and acquisitions to ensure a seamless transition for customers, employees, and stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
Serve as the overall marketing integration lead for acquisition-related initiatives and act as the primary point of contact between Marketing and the enterprise M&A program team.
Coordinate all marketing integration workstreams, ensuring alignment, accountability, and execution across marketing functions throughout the transaction lifecycle.
Facilitate weekly marketing integration meetings, maintain project plans, track milestones, manage risks and dependencies, and provide regular status updates to executive leadership and enterprise integration teams.
Own and maintain marketing integration governance, including project documentation, reporting, dashboards, action logs, decision tracking, and integration schedules utilizing project management tools such as Smartsheet.
Develop, maintain, and continuously improve a comprehensive M&A Marketing Integration Playbook that standardizes:
Integration timelines
Marketing workstreams
Communication frameworks
Brand transition processes
Customer experience considerations
Digital and collateral consolidation
Governance and approval structures
Reporting and escalation processes
Serve as the coordinator and steward of the M&A Marketing Integration Playbook by partnering with functional marketing leaders who own and define their respective integration requirements and best practices. Ensure all marketing disciplines contribute to, maintain, and continuously improve their portions of the playbook while driving consistency across the overall framework.
Createand continuously improvescalable frameworks that reduce integration complexity and improve speed-to-integration
Ensure acquired customers experience clear, coordinated, and customer-centric communications throughout transition periods
Coordinate marketing support plans for acquisition-related activity in FNBO growth markets
2.Portfolio Planning & Prioritization Practices
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Responsibilities:
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Monitor and continuously improve marketing operational KPIs and success metrics.
Ensuremeasurable outcomes are central part of planning and prioritization practicesthat articulate choices and tradeoffs.
Help teams balance short-term execution needs with long-term strategic priorities
Supportquarterly and annual planning processes by organizing inputs, tracking decisions, and maintaining accountability structures
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Strategic alignment
Business impact
Customer impact
Capacity and resourcing
Risk and urgency
Providecentralized visibility into key marketing initiatives, dependencies, timelines, and resource demands
Identify opportunities to streamline workflows and improve cross-functional coordination
Collaboration and Strategic Execution
Reporting to a member of the marketing leadership team, this individual will work collaboratively to execute against strategic priorities rather than setting enterprise strategy independently.
This role will partner across marketing disciplines and business teams to ensure:
Plans are operationally realistic
Adoption is high
Communication is clear
Teams remain aligned
Execution is efficient and measurable
The ideal candidate is highly organized, comfortable navigating ambiguity, skilled at building relationships, and capable of managing multiple complex initiatives simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
Key Competencies
Cross-functional leadership and collaboration
Program and project management
Change management and organizational integration
Marketing operations and workflow optimization
Executive communication and stakeholder management
Prioritization and resource planning
Process development and operational scalability
Performance reporting and dashboard management
Problem solving and organizational agility
Attention to detail with strong execution focus
The Ideal Candidate for This Role:
Preferred Experience
Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives or enterprise programs
Background in marketing operations, integrated marketing, project management, consulting, or business transformation
Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, or organizational integrations preferred
Strong understanding of marketing workflows across channels and disciplines
Experience with prioritization frameworks, workflow management, and operational reporting
Ability to influence without direct authority and navigate matrixed organizations
Strong communication and relationship-building skills across leadership levels
Candidates must possess unrestricted work authorization and not require future sponsorship.
Compensation:
Compensation range (base pay): $81,662.00-$134,741.00
This role may have a specific starting pay within this range.
Final compensation offer to candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon work experience, education, and/or skill level.
Work Environment:
It is anticipated that the incumbent in this role will work in a hybrid capacity, balancing in-person collaboration three (3) days a week with remote flexibility two (2) days a week. As part of our team, you'll experience the energy and relationship-building of face-to-face collaboration while still enjoying the flexibility of remote workdays. We provide the tools and technology to ensure seamless transitions between work environments, supporting your productivity wherever you are. Please note that work location is subject to change based on business needs.
Benefits Overview:
We offer a variety of benefits designed to keep you and your family physically and financially healthy. Not only do we offer a competitive salary and work-life balance, we offer benefits to match your needs:
Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
401k, With Matching Contributions
Time Off Programs
Health Savings Account (HSA)/Dependent Care
Employee Banking
Growth Opportunities
Tuition Assistance
Short-Term/Long-Term Disability Insurance
Learn more about FNBO benefits here: https://www.fnbo.com/careers/benefits/
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Job number: R-20261089
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For more than 165 years, FNBO, a subsidiary of First National of Nebraska, has set the standard for outstanding customer service coupled with some of the most innovative financial products in the industry.
When it opened in 1857, FNBO was a local bank that served only Omaha and the surrounding communities. Today, FNBO has locations in eight states and more than 6.6 million customers across the country. First National of Nebraska and its affiliates have nearly $30 billion in managed assets and 5,000 employee associates.
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