Director, Commerce Strategy

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$75K/yr – $180K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Own strategic leadership for brand and retail growth by shaping the client portfolio agenda, turning insights into actionable narratives, and ensuring high quality, defendable strategic work across omnichannel channels.

  • Strategic direction: Define long-term levers for growth and transformation across client portfolios.
  • Narrative discipline: Convert complex data into compelling, runnable jobs to guide brands, retailers, and channels.
  • Process and impact: Maintain rigorous briefs and roadmaps that deliver clear, data-driven recommendations for senior stakeholders.

Job Description

Own the strategic direction for client portfolios, translating insights into clear articulation of opportunities and shaping the narrative and work across channels.

  • Strategic Contribution: Set the strategic agenda for your client portfolio, identifying the long-term levers for brand growth and business transformation.
  • Strategic Contribution: Act as the senior strategic advisor to clients, providing a provocative and consultative perspective that challenges their business models and identifies untapped commerce opportunities.
  • Storytelling & Narrative: Translate complex insights into compelling strategic narratives and actionable "jobs to be done" for brands, retailers and key channels that inspire both clients and creative teams.
  • Strategic Craft: Set and uphold the standard for strategic rigor, ensuring that every brief, roadmap, and narrative produced by the team is of the highest quality and driven by a clear, defensible point of view.
  • Strategic Craft: Direct the synthesis of complex business challenges into elegant strategic frameworks that provide clarity for both internal teams and senior client stakeholders.
  • Research Tools & Strategic Intelligence: Conduct thorough market research and competitive audits using database tools such as MRI Simmons, Mintel, Infegy, and YPulse to identify trends, potential threats and white-space opportunities.
  • Research Tools & Strategic Intelligence: Leverage sales and shopper panel data to uncover core business problems and size market opportunities.
  • Strategic Activation & Omnichannel Planning Support: Develop comprehensive retail and engagement strategies that translate brand objectives into actionable plans across in-store, online, social, and email platforms.
  • Awards & Recognition: Identify and draft compelling case studies for industry awards (e.g., Effies, WARC, Cannes Lions) to showcase the agency’s best-in-class commerce work and the impact and effectiveness for our clients.
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VML is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, to create connected brands that drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and award-winning work with blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Intel, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester WaveTM Reports, which name WPP a “Leader” in Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 28,000 talented people across 60-plus markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney. VML is a WPP agency (NYSE: WPP). For more information, please visit www.vml.com, and follow along on Instagram, LinkedIn, and X. #WeAreVML

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