Mars United℠ Commerce is a global commerce marketing practice that aligns people, technology, and intelligence to make the business of our clients better today than it was yesterday. Our worldwide capabilities coalesce into four key disciplines — Strategy & Analytics, Content & Experiences, Digital Commerce, and Retail Consultancy — that individually deliver unmatched results for clients and collectively give them an unparalleled network of seamlessly integrated functions across the entire commerce marketing ecosystem. These disciplines are powered by our industry-leading technology platform, Marilyn®, which helps marketers understand the total business impact of their commerce marketing activation, enabling them to make better decisions, create connected experiences, and drive stronger, measurable results. Learn more at https://www.marsunited.com/.
Overview
The Mars Agency is seeking a VP, Connected Commerce to be the single point of contact, key owner and lead of the Connected Commerce Retail-Specific activity overseeing a multi-segment, multi-brand CPG client, 40+ person team.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Driver of Connected Commerce - linking all the levers across shopper marketing, retail media and ecommerce needed to deliver most efficient and effective omni-channel activation.
- Drives consistency and improvements across all retail team deliverables that are client facing in collaboration with Retail team leads and cross functional partners
- Drives Best Practices across full Life of A Job at retail
- Helps curate and deliver thought leadership specific to connected commerce in partnership with cross functional peers
- Oversight and leader of Annual Planning at retail
- Collaborating to drive top-down integration with Customer Promotions, Brand and National Media
- Lead Client facing Sr level executive communications
- Industry facing joint leadership with client, ie trade relations and speaking engagements
- Scoping and Budget leadership management
SKILLS:
- Excel in communication - written, verbal, presentation
- 10+ years’ experience leading large CPG brand with retail media, ecommerce and shopper marketing
- Executive level presence and experience
- Understanding of key components of CPG and retailer relationships - Joint Business Planning, Top 2 Tops, Channel Strategies and Category Strategies
- Existing experience and relationships with Retail Media Partners
- Multi-segment/Brand Annual Planning Experience
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