Responsibilities

• Define and lead the retail media strategy across all priority retail partners.
• Establish retail media best practices, frameworks, and governance through a Center of Excellence model.
• Develop annual and quarterly retail media roadmaps aligned to business, category, and commercial objectives.
• Identify opportunities to improve audience targeting, measurement, attribution, and return on investment.
• Act as the primary liaison between Marketing, Omni-Commerce, Sales, Category, Analytics, Finance, and Retailer teams.
• Align retail media investments with business priorities, category growth opportunities, and retailer objectives.
• Facilitate joint business planning discussions and ensure retail media activation supports broader omnichannel strategies.
• Drive stakeholder alignment on goals, KPIs, audience strategies, and investment decisions.
• Lead agency partners responsible for retail media planning, activation, optimization, and reporting.
• Ensure campaigns are executed on time, on budget, and according to agreed business objectives.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Retail Media, eCommerce Media, Digital Media, Shopper Marketing, Omnichannel Marketing, or related fields.
• Proven experience managing media programs across major retail media networks (e.g., Amazon, Walmart Connect, Target Roundel, Kroger Precision Marketing, Instacart, Best Buy Ads, or similar).
• Strong understanding of retail media planning, activation, measurement, attribution, and audience strategies.
• Experience leading external media agencies and performance management processes.
• Demonstrated success working across Marketing, Sales, Omnichannel, Commerce, and Analytics organizations.
• Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.
• Experience managing multiple stakeholders and influencing without direct authority.

Preferred

• Experience working in a global or matrixed organization.
• Experience building or leading Retail Media Centers of Excellence.
• Knowledge of first-party data, identity solutions, commerce media, and closed-loop measurement.
• Experience managing significant media investments and retail partnerships.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including;
• 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview https://hpbenefits.ce.alight.com/)