Senior Program Strategy Manager, Retail Marketing

About the Role

The Sr. Program Strategy Manager, Channel Marketing is a key role supporting one of our largest tech clients by driving traffic and sales through retail partners.

In this role, you will partner with our client teams to lead the planning, creative development process, and performance tracking for channel initiatives across top retailers, managing communications, costs, and project timelines throughout the process.

Working closely with our client’s Corporate Marketing, Product Marketing, Channel Sales, and Partners, this person will develop and design innovative retail concepts focused on driving demand with our retail partners globally.

This person will need to be skilled in online retail best practices, collaborating and negotiating media engagements, and the ability to project management initiatives from inception to final execution.

We're currently all working from home due to COVID-19, but may be asked to occasionally travel to the office in the future.

Since most of our team and our clients are in the Bay Area, candidates for this role will be expected to work West Coast Hours (PST), and travel only when needed.

Strong English (written and verbal) required.

We are looking for a rockstar strategic and well-versed leader who has demonstrated :

Responsibilities :

• Develop annual channel marketing plans and initiatives to drive awareness, consideration and purchase of consumer electronics devices
• Brief and manage external agencies in the development of online campaigns and assets around product launches, seasonality, and key initiatives
• Work with internal stakeholders and external agencies to create and launch online media campaigns and deliverables, managing all timelines and approvals such as media plans, landing pages, product marketing videos, banners and emails
• Support negotiation for media placements and retail agreements to drive awareness and sales for consumer electronics
• Develop and present performance reports for retail campaigns to show ROI for each initiative (based on approved KPIs), highlighting learnings and future opportunities
• Juggle multiple retailer guidelines, timelines, and relationships to bring projects from concept to execution
• Manage internal and external approvals across team for all campaigns, budget allocations, and assets
• Collaborate with global brand, product, and go-to-market teams to create a consistent brand aesthetic in all markets.
• Regularly meet with external retail partner teams to collaborate and coordinate marketing support and priorities
• Proficient with Google Workspace products preferred.
• Applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged. We are open to the possibility that a great candidate for this job may not precisely meet all of the criteria mentioned below;

if you believe you’re the right person for this job and can persuasively make that case, we encourage you to apply.

About You

• BA / BS Degree in Marketing or a related field
• 8+ years developing and executing digital marketing campaigns, preferably for tech or consumer electronics-related brands.

Experience at a big box retailer, or working in a retail marketing or visual merchandising role is a plus.

• Demonstrated ability to work independently, run with ambiguity, and thrive with challenges.
• Experience at an agency or working with agencies to develop creative campaigns supporting retail initiatives
• Ability to work cross-functionally to plan and execute multiple projects
• Experience identifying primary target audiences and developing media initiatives with big box retailers
• Strong project management skills and the ability to think strategically and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Exceptional G-Suite apps knowledge including experience with digital campaign data analysis
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience training & enabling channel marketing partners

At Media.Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.

What We Offer

Benefits

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
• 401k with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Media.Monks network
• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
• Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge!)

Media.Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Media.Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting.

Media.Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

Salary Range$120 $130 USD

About Media.Monks :

Media.Monks is the purely digital operating brand of S4Capital plc that connects 8,600+ digital natives across one global team.

We are united by a mission to shift industries forward and pave the path towards ambitious outcomes so our clients and our people can realize their full potential for growth.

Our unified model combines solutions in media, data, social, platforms, studio, experience, brand and technology services to help our clients continuously reinvent themselves throughout increasingly rapid cycles of disruption.

Our efforts to shape culture, build innovative technologies and unlock the future of growth have earned recognition from numerous esteemed panels : we maintain a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-22), regular recognition at Cannes Lions, inclusion in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players (2020-23), the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-23), a record number of FWAs, and have earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

Together, these achievements solidify our experience in digital innovation, excellence in craft, and commitment to personal growth.

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