Vice President, Growth Strategy & Marketing Operations

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

$232K/yr – $290K/yrSenior Level15+ years expFull time

Posted 18 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive VCA’s marketing and branding strategy, leading the Marketing Strategy & Planning team to deliver a multi-year growth roadmap, data-driven performance dashboards, and executive storytelling that aligns with enterprise priorities.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Operate as a strategic thought partner to the VP Chief Marketing Officer to define VCA’s marketing and branding strategy and growth agenda. Designs and leads execution for a multi-year marketing and growth roadmap aligned with VCA’s strategic priorities.
  • Use data-driven insights to identify marketing opportunities, competitive positioning, and client trends. Establish and report on KPIs, dashboards, and performance reporting to measure ROI and marketing effectiveness.
  • Lead and develop the Marketing Strategy & Planning team, ensuring alignment of team goals, performance metrics, and growth objectives.
  • Lead marketing investment and budget allocation decisions aligned to enterprise objectives, growth priorities, and highest-impact opportunities.
  • Develop and steward the Marketing Strategy Narrative for MVH, including Annual Planning, governance forums, and strategic communications.
  • Build and lead a high-performing marketing and branding team with strong talent development, performance management, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Maintain knowledge on emerging market trends, client behaviors, competitive intelligence, and industry innovations to maintain a best-in-class marketing function.
  • Fulfill other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing or related field.
  • Master’s degree in business, marketing or related field
  • 15+ years of progressive marketing and branding experience; experience designing and executing marketing tactics and brand strategies. People leadership experience.
  • Services, multi-units, leading enterprise-wide initiatives.
  • Ability to read, write, and speak English
  • Travel up to 30%
  • Ability to translate enterprise priorities into clear marketing and growth strategies that drive measurable business outcomes
  • Expert-level capability in Excel and quantitative analysis to build business cases, model investment scenarios, and evaluate growth opportunities
  • Strong proficiency in Power BI or similar platforms to develop dashboards, measure performance, and translate data into actionable insights
  • Exceptional ability to synthesize complex business insights into clear, compelling executive narratives and presentations using PowerPoint and other visualization tools

Benefits

  • Benefits: We offer competitive compensation along with a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision and paid vacation/sick days, 401(k), generous employee pet discounts and more!
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VCA Animal Hospitals

A leader in veterinary care, VCA Animal Hospitals is committed to taking care of the future of veterinary medicine. We are a family of hometown animal hospitals determined to positively impact pets, people and our communities. From general practice to emergency and specialty care, VCA delivers world-class medicine and hometown care to more than four million pets each year. We invest in cutting-edge tools, training and technology that enable Associates across our national network of hospitals to lead the industry today and into tomorrow. Among our talented 35,000 Associates are nearly 7,000 veterinarians – including 430 who are board-certified specialists – nearly 4,000 credentialed technicians and over 10,000 veterinary assistants – all dedicated to giving pets the very best in medical care. As part of the Mars Veterinary Health family of brands, VCA is taking care of the future of veterinary medicine to help achieve the Mars Petcare Purpose—A Better World for PetsTM. To learn more about VCA, visit: www.vca.com or find us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. https://bit.ly/vcaprivacy https://bit.ly/vcalegal

Founded in 1986
Los Angeles, California, USA
11K employees (100 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
33.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$677
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36.5%
Direct
42.3%
Referral
13.9%
Social
6.3%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~10.6K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
77 (1% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2