VP, Commerce Strategy

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$157K/yr – $246K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive senior strategic leadership for a global client portfolio, shaping long-term growth through research-driven insights and cross-functional leadership.

  • Own senior-level client relationships and strategic guidance across a global client portfolio.
  • Must-have: 10+ years in qualitative/quantitative research and digital communications experience.
  • Standout: Mastery of Marilyn Predictive Commerce Intelligence technology and cross-functional leadership.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a senior-level, global contact across a key client business
  • Demonstrate an expert grasp of current industry dynamics and be able to provide perspective to the agency on the impact, influence, and implications of these dynamics on brand or agency health.
  • Partner with Client Leadership and other cross-functional teams to develop and deploy shopper-focused program development for agency clients.
  • Provide long-term perspective for brand, segment, and business growth that exceeds the scope of individual projects. Be able to clearly articulate a strategic vision in a confident and persuasive manner to clients and teams; connect the vision to business imperatives and measures.
  • Ensure proactive strategic thought-leadership across the integrated marketing mix; be able to effectively apply and integrate strategy into the OneMars agency process, working with Groupe leadership peers to continually improve process.
  • Lead and develop working hypotheses and methods to test/apply thinking to a variety of marketing challenges that leads to the discovery of new insights.
  • Play a leadership role in annual planning activities and identifying client growth opportunities.
  • Raise the bar of OneMars work for clients. This includes instituting research and testing approaches using consumer/shopper, retail, media, and brand insights to inspire, guide, develop, and evaluate work, along with appropriate analytic approaches.
  • Develop and lead client workshops, leading to effective outcomes.
  • Champion best practices throughout the organization, productively mentor members of cross-functional teams on our approaches, and agency outputs.
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Mars United Commerce

Mars UnitedSM 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/.

Founded in 1972
Southfield, Michigan, USA
970 employees (280 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

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19.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.8%
Direct
46.2%
Referral
7.8%
Social
6.8%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~970

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Marketing Team Size
117 (12% of company)
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