Associate Retail Marketing Manager

Responsibilities

• 1. Visual Merchandising & Store Experience Marketing (SEM)
• - Retailer Compliance & Playbooks: Learn and develop fluency in Target and Best Buy’s Store Experience Guidelines to support senior team members in client conversations. Create and maintain retailer SEM playbook recaps for internal teams and brand partners. Manage and maintain visual merchandising seasonal recaps and photo library.
• - End-to-End Project Management: Oversee the entire lifecycle of SEM elements—from creative briefing and concepts, retailer approvals, production, deployment, and post-activation reviews.
• - Support the day-to-day management of visual merchandising projects across a portfolio of brand partners, ensuring timelines, deliverables, and activation details are tracked and communicated accurately.
• - Coordinate between brand partners and internal/external teams — including print production partners — to keep activations on track from kickoff through in store set.
• - Maintain up to date tracker and files of deliverables, timelines, brand assets, creative rounds and assortments across multiple accounts and activations simultaneously.
• - Proactively flag issues or timeline risks and follow through on action items to resolution.

Requirements

• 1–3 years of experience in retail marketing, channel marketing, shopper marketing or a related field — Target specific experience preferred.
• Strong project management and organizational skills with the ability to juggle multiple accounts and deadlines at once.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially Excel and PowerPoint) and comfort working in campaign management or reporting tools.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills for both internal coordination and client-facing support.
• Detail-oriented with a proactive mindset — someone who flags issues early and follows through on action items.
• Proactive and self-directed—comfortable operating in a lean team with significant ownership
• Passion for retail, merchandising, and shopper behavior. Curiosity about shopper marketing and visual merchandising space, with a willingness to learn quickly in a fast-moving environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field preferred.