Email Marketing Specialist

Pennsylvania, USA (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Build end-to-end email programs, including production, testing, and lifecycle automation, while shaping targeted journeys and audience segments to drive engagement and revenue in retail and loyalty initiatives.

  • Lead email production, testing, and QA across promotional, triggered, and lifecycle campaigns using automation.
  • Own audience segmentation, list hygiene, and personalized journey workflows to improve targeting and engagement.
  • Coordinate with CRM, creative, merchandising, and analytics to align email with broader marketing initiatives and drive measurable results.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Email
  • Responsible for setup, scheduling, testing, proofing and deployment of email campaigns
  • Responsible for the building, scheduling, and deployment of promotional, triggered, and lifecycle email campaigns using Listrak’s email and journey automation capabilities.
  • Maintain the email marketing calendar and coordinate campaign timing
  • Review emails for accuracy, formatting, links, and overall quality before deployment
  • Support updates to email templates, layouts, and content
  • Run audience building and automation
  • Facilitate the implementation of personalization strategies
  • Develop audience segmentation and list management to improve targeting and engagement
  • Maintain automated email workflows such as welcome emails, reminders, and re-engagement campaigns
  • Execute ongoing list hygiene and subscriber management
  • Track key campaign metrics including opens, clicks, conversions, and unsubscribes
  • Prepare regular reporting and identify basic opportunities for improvement
  • Support simple A/B testing efforts for subject lines, messaging, and send times
  • Monitor deliverability and list health
  • Follow best practices for email compliance and subscriber engagement
  • Maintain a clean and engaged email database
  • Coordinate with CRM partners responsible for loyalty communications and testing
  • Import and manage data feeds into Listrak.
  • Attend weekly meetings for different business needs within the organization
  • Work closely with creative, merchandising, loyalty, and analytics teams to align email execution with broader marketing initiatives.
  • Actively participate in training sessions both virtual and in-person
  • Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Senior Marketing Manager and/or Senior Director of Customer Relationship Marketing & Loyalty

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in email marketing supporting retail, ecommerce, or loyalty marketing programs.
  • Experience working in an ESP environment, ideally Listrak or a retail focused automation platform.
  • Familiarity with email metrics, campaign testing, and basic performance analysis.
  • Working knowledge of HTML based emails, Liquid Script, and email QA best practices.
  • Strong attention to detail, organization, and campaign execution discipline.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines for multiple channels
  • 2+ year experience in SMS and/or Push notification marketing
  • Strong written communication and organizational skills
  • Eagerness to learn, improve, and grow within the role
  • Understanding of email automation, segmentation, and logic
  • Familiarity with email and SMS best practices
  • Experience working with CRM systems or customer databases
  • Experience supporting retail, ecommerce, or loyalty marketing programs.
  • Exposure to automated email journeys or lifecycle campaigns.
  • Comfort working with customer data, segments, and behavioral triggers.
  • Willingness to collaborate in a hybrid work environment with cross functional partners.

Preferred

  • Experience with SMS and Push notification marketing preferred
  • Experience with Listrak or a retail-focused automation platform preferred

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, and RX coverage after 30 days of employment.
  • 401K, Company match begins at Associate enrollment
  • Strong career growth & talent development culture
  • 20% Associate discount on all Ollie’s purchases.
  • Vast array of voluntary benefits
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Ollie's Bargain Outlet

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Harrisburg, PA-based Ollie’s Bargain Outlet is one of America’s largest retailers of closeouts, excess inventory and salvage merchandise. Our buyers scour the world looking for great deals to deliver to our customers. You’ll find lots of famous brand-name goods in our 500+ "semi-lovely" store locations, and the inventory is always changing!Not only do we value our customers, but we understand that our associates are our most valuable resource. Our people are the key to our success. We pride ourselves in a 75% target internal rate-of-promotion. We invest in our associates for the growth of their future and ours. Ollie’s does this through our OLI (Ollie’s Leadership Institute) program, which is designed to train and develop associates for their next internal move within the company. Ollie’s seeks and encourages an entrepreneurial spirit by offering a non-planogram environment that allows store managers to use their space to the best of their ability and knowledge.The first Ollie’s Bargain Outlet store opened in Mechanicsburg, PA in 1982. Since then, we have grown to become one of the largest deep-discount retailers in America. We currently operate 500+ store locations in 31 states, along with a Store Support Center in Harrisburg, PA, and three distribution centers, one in York, PA, Commerce, GA and another in Lancaster, TX. Visit the Careers Section of our website to view job opportunities - ollies.us/careers.

Founded in 1982
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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