Marketing Manager

Princeton, NJ (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive marketing for the Princeton University Store across omnichannel campaigns, aligning with university moments and product launches to strengthen brand presence and revenue.

  • Must-have: 7–10 years in consumer marketing with omni‑channel experience and data‑driven decision making.
  • Standout: Experience translating a retail identity across stores, digital channels, and packaging in an education setting.
  • Standout: Strong cross‑functional leadership with external partners to run end‑to‑end campaigns.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and manage a marketing calendar aligned with seasonal business priorities, key University moments, major selling periods, and store initiatives.
  • Plan and execute integrated marketing campaigns across physical and digital channels.
  • Lead customerfacing communications, including email, newsletters, campaign messaging, event communications, and promotional storytelling.
  • Partner with merchandising and ecommerce to support product launches, promotions, seasonal narratives, and digital content needs.
  • Improve the consistency and quality of marketing execution across campaigns, communications, digital channels, and physical touchpoints.
  • Help bring an emerging Princeton University Store retail identity and expression framework to life across customerfacing channels.
  • Support the development of future retail expression tools such as packaging, collection naming, storytelling architecture, and related systems as appropriate.
  • Manage external creative, production, and freelance partners as needed.
  • Use customer, sales, digital, and campaign data to improve marketing performance and guide decisionmaking.
  • Identify, test, and apply AI and emerging technologies that improve speed, insight, workflow efficiency, and the overall sophistication of the marketing function.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, Retail Merchandising, or a related field.
  • 7 to 10 years of relevant experience in marketing, communications, customer engagement, or related roles within a consumerfacing organization.
  • Experience in retail, omnichannel commerce, lifestyle, higher educationrelated retail, cultural institutions, or missiondriven environments strongly preferred.
  • Strong command of marketing planning, campaign development, communications, and promotional execution.
  • Experience with email marketing, digital content planning, social media coordination, and audience engagement.
  • Strong writing, editorial judgment, and messaging skills.
  • Ability to work crossfunctionally and manage multiple priorities with discipline and followthrough.
  • Comfort using data to evaluate performance and improve outcomes.
  • Demonstrated fluency with AI and emerging technology tools, with the ability to apply them responsibly and practically to improve speed, quality, creativity, analysis, and operational efficiency.
  • Familiarity with ecommerce environments and digital merchandising support. Experience with NetSuite, SuiteCommerce, or similar platforms is helpful.