Director, Media Portfolio Strategy

Springfield, IL (Remote)

$121K/yr – $216K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and drive the end-to-end media portfolio across Brand Marketing, Best Buy Ads, and Marketplace, partnering across measurement and analytics to turn insights into investments, while building a Center of Excellence and leading a high-performing cross-functional team to optimize media strategy and portfolio decisions.

  • Own portfolio strategy and investments
  • Lead cross-functional planning and capability building

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the holistic media portfolio strategy across Brand Marketing, Best Buy Ads, and Marketplace ensuring investment decisions are informed by enterprise priorities, portfolio performance, and growth opportunities.
  • Lead and partner with media, measurement, analytics and insights teams to create and operationalize a connected approach to media measurement, ensuring insights are translated into actionable planning, optimization, and investment decisions.
  • Establish and operationalize a portfolio-level view of media investments and performance, identifying trends, opportunities, risks, and efficiencies across the media portfolio to inform planning and investment decisions.
  • Build and lead the Media Portfolio Center of Excellence, establishing strategy and planning frameworks, best practices, and processes that improve consistency, effectiveness, and decision-making across the organization.
  • Strategically advise media and marketing leadership, developing recommendations that inform investment prioritization, portfolio optimization, and long-term media strategy.
  • Lead media investment and performance scenario planning for business reviews, planning cycles, and leadership discussions, synthesizing inputs from multiple teams into clear insights, recommendations, and actions.
  • Partner with marketing, category, finance, and decision science teams to shape media forecasts that anticipate customer demand across the retail sales calendar.
  • Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team while extending the team's influence across a broader cross-functional community, and building the capabilities that raise the quality of media investment decisions enterprise-wide.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in media strategy, marketing strategy, retail media, analytics, measurement, insights, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience working across media strategy, media effectiveness, measurement, or insights functions.
  • 5+ years of experience leveraging media measurement and effectiveness approaches, including marketing mix modeling, attribution, incrementality testing, and performance measurement frameworks, to inform business and investment decisions.
  • Experience developing strategic plans, business reviews, or portfolio-level recommendations that balance short-term performance with long-term business objectives.
  • Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives and drive alignment across multiple teams and senior stakeholders.
  • Experience influencing planning, investment, or business decisions through data-driven recommendations and executive-level communication.
  • Strong communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills, including experience presenting strategic recommendations and performance insights to senior leaders.

Preferred

  • Experience within a retail media network, retailer, agency, or consumer-focused marketing organization.
  • Experience supporting annual planning, portfolio planning, or media investment decision-making processes.

Benefits

  • Competitive pay
  • Great employee discount
  • Financial savings and retirement resources
  • Support for your physical and mental well-being
  • Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans, including eligibility, please refer to our Incentive Programs Summary .
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Director, Media Portfolio Strategy

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