Jillian Oakes

About Jillian Oakes

As Chief of Staff, I work directly with our Chief Marketing Officer to articulate their vision, prioritize, and drive the execution of mission-critical initiatives with support from individuals across the organization. I’m an experienced leader with discipline in project and organizational change management, business operations, sales and marketing, client services, executive programs, and internal communications. My background includes high-pressure, hard-pivot, and high-visibility leadership roles that require strong collaboration skills and exceptional attention to detail. I draw on my broad advisory skillset to accelerate growth and manage change within dynamic companies.Throughout my career, I’ve held roles that require working cross-functionally to drive stakeholder alignment and deliver results. I have a clear focus on organizational health and success by employing keen active listening and using feedback to improve processes and programs. I excel at business planning and strategy, defining and measuring goals, operationalizing processes, building scalable programs, and delivering results. My key strengths include:• Organizational effectiveness • Operational efficiency• Cross-functional initiatives • Strategic planning• Marketing• Executive programs• Internal communications • Building teams

Experience

1. Marketing Chief of Staff

   Unisys

   Jul 2022 — Present · Stonington, CT, US

   As Chief of Staff and member of the Marketing Leadership team, I provide direct support to our Chief Marketing Officer. I lead various initiatives to develop and improve operations through efficient and effective integrated processes by implementing dynamic change management and project management strategies. I create new and evolve current processes to help the marketing team achieve its goals by cultivating, nurturing, and, maintaining organizational health. • Drive a uniform approach in the development and communication of processes and procedures.• Lead continual process improvement partnering to meet the annual objectives of the Operating Plan for Marketing.• Partner to develop and drive our communication strategy to the larger marketing organization.• Partner to develop, implement, track, and report on Key Performance Indicator metrics.• Provide operational support, including program/change management for large-scale efforts and components of large multi-functional projects.• Manage operational projects including the collection and dissemination of information and communicate results to leadership.• Drive implementation of projects to improve operational efficiency.• Conduct research for best practices and policies in various operational focus areas.• Partner with Marketing Leadership on Executive level and Board presentations.

Education

• Rockhurst University

  Fundamentals in Project Management Seminar

  2002

• Salve Regina University

  Bachelor's degree, Business Human Resource Management

  1992

• Landmark

  The Forum and Advanced Coursework