Director, Integrated Marketing Partnerships

Position Overview

Location: Atlanta, Georgia. Cox Enterprises is seeking a Director, Integrated Marketing Partnerships to join our team. Cox Ideabar – an integrated brand, creative, and media marketing center – is looking for a strategic leader to shape powerful brand stories for the Cox family of brands and select partners. The role focuses on overseeing high-impact relationships and integrated marketing engagements, ensuring alignment of strategies across both internal divisions and external client organizations.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary business contact and trusted marketing advisor to senior leaders across Cox’s internal divisions and external client organizations.
• Cultivate, grow, and retain long-term relationships that deliver marketing excellence and business results.
• Drive alignment across business and marketing leadership to ensure forward-looking, measurable, and fully integrated strategies.
• Lead quarterly business planning sessions with internal partners and external clients to co-develop strategic priorities and high-impact marketing initiatives.
• Architect end-to-end marketing strategies including full-funnel campaigns that align with client and partner business goals.
• Develop scopes of services and campaign plans in partnership with internal teams and external vendors.
• Shape and evolve integrated marketing offerings to stay ahead of market shifts and client demands.
• Translate business objectives and competitive insights into actionable marketing strategies and scopes of work.
• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to ensure projects are executed on time, within budget, and with clear deliverables.
• Lead and develop a team of marketing professionals by setting strategic vision, providing coaching, and fostering cross-functional collaboration.
• Champion a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning within the team.
• Drive organic growth within existing accounts and support the acquisition of new client relationships.
• Oversee revenue forecasting, account-level profitability, and ensure consistent meeting or exceeding of P&L targets.
• Collaborate with business operations to manage budgets, optimize resource allocation, and identify risk and opportunity areas.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 10 years’ progressive experience in marketing, partnerships/account management, or agency leadership roles. (Alternatively, a master’s degree with 8 years’ experience, a Ph.D. with 5 years’ experience, or 14 years’ experience in a related field.)
• 5+ years’ experience in a management or leadership role.
• Proven success managing integrated marketing account management and partnership teams for enterprise clients and/or high-growth brands.
• Experience with media buying and planning.
• Familiarity with both B2C and B2B marketing strategies.
• Understanding of enterprise-level branding and campaign management.