Manager Customer Opportunities Activation

Bolingbrook, IL (On-site)

$88K/yr – $120K/yrManager5+ years expFull time

Posted 9 days ago

Job Summary

Own activation strategy and end-to-end execution for customer initiatives, leading cross-functional workstreams from opportunity through launch and post-launch optimization.

  • Define and size audiences and sales potential with targeted analyses
  • Lead cross-functional activation sessions and track progress from planning to measurement
  • Drive post-launch learnings and leadership-ready updates

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Developing a deep understanding of customer behaviors and motivations, monitoring business performance in customer terms, and surfacing risks, opportunities, learnings, and recommendations.
  • Partnering with the Senior Manager, Customer Strategy to translate customer strategy and enterprise priorities into an activation roadmap, conducting targeted analyses of customer and business data to size audiences, estimate sales potential, and inform prioritization.
  • Leading cross-functional working sessions to assess feasibility and develop activation plans that support customer objectives – including alignment on audience, value proposition, channel, offer/message, data needs, timing, measurement, and ownership.
  • Owning activation tracking and execution cadence and proactively resolving blockers to keep work moving through launch.
  • Fostering connection and collaboration with cross-functional customer activation teams on measurement, performance, optimization, and rollout. Leading post-launch readouts to identify learnings and recommendations.
  • Preparing customer and marketing materials for leadership reviews, highlighting performance and progress toward customer objectives.
  • Maintaining knowledge of consumer and cultural trends, key retail best practices, competitive landscape, and internal operating processes.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience developing and executing customer, CRM, lifecycle, or marketing activations
  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional activations from opportunity definition through execution, measurement, and optimization
  • Strong ability to frame ambiguous problems, establish a practical path forward, and drive progress with incomplete or evolving information
  • Strong analytical skills and excel proficiency, with experience using customer-level data and reporting tools to independently size opportunities, evaluate performance, and develop actionable recommendations
  • Proven ability to influence without direct authority, build strong relationships, and create accountability across multiple teams
  • Bias toward action with strong project management, organizational, and problem-solving skills and disciplined follow-through
  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, or related field

Benefits

  • Full-time positions are eligible for paid time off, health, dental, vision, life and disability benefits.
  • Part-time positions are eligible for dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
  • For additional information concerning our benefits, visit our Benefits and Career Development page: https://learn.bswift.com/ulta
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Ulta Beauty

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At Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA), the possibilities are beautiful. Ulta Beauty is the largest U.S. beauty retailer and the premier beauty destination for cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products and salon services. In 1990, the Company reinvented the beauty retail experience by offering a new way to shop for beauty – bringing together all things beauty, all in one place. Today, Ulta Beauty has grown to become the top national retailer offering the complete beauty experience. Ulta Beauty brings possibilities to life through the power of beauty each and every day in our stores and online with more than 25,000 products from approximately 500 well-established and emerging beauty brands across all categories and price points, including Ulta Beauty’s own private label. Ulta Beauty also offers a full-service salon in every store featuring hair, skin, brow, and make-up services. Ulta Beauty is recognized for its commitment to personalized service, fun and inviting stores and our industry-leading Ultamate Rewards loyalty program.ALERT: We are aware of a scam whereby imposters are posing as employees from Ulta Beauty and vendors to Ulta Beauty. Beware of anyone requesting financial or personal information.At Ulta Beauty, we take pride in creating a best in class candidate experience. During the recruitment process, no recruiter or employee will request financial or personal information (Social Security Number, credit card, driver’s license or bank information, etc.) from you via text or email. If you are suspicious of a job posting or job-related email mentioning Ulta Beauty, let us know by contacting us at 630-410-4800 or email HRServiceCenter@ulta.com.

Founded in 1990
Bolingbrook, Illinois, USA
41K employees (4,366 in marketing)
56% recommend to a friend
53% CEO approval

Salaries

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$88K/yr – $120K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,526 (4% of company)
Median Tenure
5.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$266.3M
Last Raise
$266.3M
Post IPO Equity, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2024
    Post IPO Equity • $266.3M
  • Oct 2016
    Post IPO Equity
  • Jun 1993
    Seed

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Monthly Visitors
47.4M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.1M
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43.8%
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28.7%
Referral
2.5%
Social
4.2%
Paid
10%

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Current headcount: ~40.6K

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Manager Customer Opportunities Activation

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