Responsibilities

• Own and govern more than $800 million in annual domestic media investment, leading the development and execution of integrated, full-funnel media plans across mass media, digital media, retail media, and emerging platforms, with disciplined allocation across brand, performance, and commerce-driving channels.
• Ensure media investment is optimized to deliver incremental sales, customer acquisition, traffic growth, and advertising contribution to sales, supported by a rigorous performance and measurement framework including return on investment, return on advertising spend, incrementality, marginal return analysis, agile attribution, marketing mix modeling, experimentation, and testing.
• Lead media analytics and measurement strategy in close partnership with analytics, finance, and marketing technology teams to maximize the value of first-party data and ensure media investment decisions are grounded in financial rigor, transparency, and measurable business outcomes.
• Provide strategic and operational leadership for Lowe’s in-house media organization, establishing clear vision, standards, governance, operating cadence, and enterprise-aligned ways of working to drive accountability, performance, and outcome-based execution across distributed teams.
• Lead media agency management and external partner relationships, including approximately $500 million in agency-managed spend, holding agencies and partners accountable for best-in-class planning, activation, optimization, transparency, operational excellence, innovation, and continuous cost efficiencies beyond rate negotiations.
• Drive media innovation and organizational change as Lowe’s evolves toward more agile, technology-enabled, and in-house-led media capabilities, leveraging artificial intelligence, automation, advanced analytics, and emerging platforms, formats, and tools to unlock new growth opportunities.
• Define future-state media roadmaps, operating models, and enterprise standards, playbooks, and best practices to enable consistency, efficiency, scalability, and long-term growth.
• Serve as a senior cross-functional leader, partnering closely with Marketing, Merchandising, Finance, Digital, Technology, and Procurement to ensure media strategies are fully integrated with merchandising priorities, promotional calendars, pricing, digital experiences, contracts, and investment structures.
• Develop media leadership capability and talent, fostering a culture of collaboration, test-and-learn, data-led decision making, continuous improvement, and results-driven execution.
• Balance short-term performance with long-term brand equity, driving sustainable value creation while delivering ongoing cost efficiencies across media investment, agency operations, and technology.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Finance or related field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable
• 12+ years of progressive marketing experience, with deep expertise in media strategy and activation
• 10+ years leading multi-channel media programs, spanning brand and performance marketing
• Proven experience managing large-scale media investments
• Demonstrated success leading teams and influencing outcomes in matrixed, cross-functional environments.
• Strong background in media analytics, measurement, and performance optimization.
• Experience leading media transformation initiatives, including in-housing, automation, and AI adoption.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Business, Marketing, Finance or related field
• Retail, e-commerce, or omni-channel marketing experience at scale