Sr. Manager, Marketing Strategy and Campaign Planning

Arlington, VA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive end-to-end retail marketing leadership for Lidl’s grocery/consumer goods, coordinating strategy, campaigns, in-store signage, events, and performance analysis.

  • Must-have: 10+ years in brand/marketing leadership within retail, with cross-functional team management.
  • Standout: Experience leading events and partnerships across multi-market programs.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Planning: Manage the annual planning of all marketing activities in close collaboration with knowledge of the grocery retail market, international partners, insights team, loyalty team, promotional team, purchasing team, PR and Supply Chain.
  • Campaign planning: Manage the full project lifecycle of our campaigns: going from development, steering the internal marketing teams, operational execution and post mortem analysis.
  • In-Store Signage & Refits: Direct the signage team to ensure cohesive visual merchandising that aligns with marketing campaigns of all sizes, scaling seamlessly from campaigns to comprehensive store remodels. Manage every aspect of print marketing, including production timelines, legal reviews, creative asset approval, and vendor funding. Stakeholder Alignment: Facilitate alignment between internal marketing teams and external print/production partners to ensure consistency across all markets.
  • Experiential events, Partnerships & community engagement: Lead the Events & Partnerships team to design and execute highly engaging experiential marketing events. Drive regional strategic partnerships by establishing a centralized vision with adaptable, localized execution. Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of grand openings and re-openings, managing pre-launch buzz, day-of execution, and post-launch engagement.
  • Performance Optimization: Evaluate campaign effectiveness through data analysis, translating performance metrics into actionable insights to continuously refine and elevate future marketing strategies.
  • Financial Partnership: Partner directly with the Marketing Finance specialist to determine the most effective and budget-conscious media strategy for each channel.

Requirements

  • Industry Expertise: Strong understanding of the retail grocery and consumer goods sector.
  • Leadership: Excellent supervisory and leadership skills, with a proven ability to train, delegate, and elevate others.
  • Relationship Building: Proven ability to build partnerships and maximize relationships with both internal stakeholders and external vendors.
  • Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, paired with strong interpersonal, negotiation, and conflict resolution abilities.
  • Project Management: Excellent organizational and time management skills, with strict attention to detail and a proven ability to meet deadlines.
  • Analytical Thinking: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to translate data into actionable marketing strategies.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Retail, Business, or related field
  • 10 years of experience in a related field; managing a brand, managing teams, creating and implementing marketing campaigns for consumer targets
  • In lieu of degree, 12+ years of experience in related field will meet the education and related experience requirements listed above

Benefits

  • Medical & Prescription | Dental | Vision coverage
  • Paid Holiday & Paid Time Off (PTO) to use for sickness or vacation
  • Dedicated training plans to ensure you are set up for success
  • 401k Plan (+ 5% company match)
  • Voluntary Term Life & AD&D Insurance
  • Total Well-Being Program
  • DailyPay, a voluntary benefit to offer employees access to their pay on their own schedule
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Lidl US

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Lidl is a family-owned business grounded on a simple philosophy: that customers deserve the highest quality goods and groceries at prices everyone can afford. For more than forty years, Lidl’s unique approach has changed and improved communities across 32 countries, where Lidl has grown to operate around 11,550 stores and employ more than 341,000 people.In 2017, we brought our unique approach to the U.S. and opened our first stores in Virginia and the Carolinas. In less than three years, Lidl has won more than 500 awards for our unique products and shopping experience and has been recognized as a Top 3 U.S. supermarket by Food & Wine Magazine. Our U.S. footprint has grown over that same period to more than 150 stores across 9 East Coast states, with more than 5,000 U.S. team members supporting our growth. We are just getting started. Lidl US offers employees the opportunity to be a part of something big. Whether you want to join a team and be the best at what you do, or grow your career into a leadership position, Lidl US will support your efforts and create opportunities for you to develop your career – wherever it takes you. Are you up for it? Be a part of something fresh, new and exciting! Check out all of our open job opportunities on careers.lidl.com.

Founded in 1973
Arlington, Virginia, USA
3K employees (79 in marketing)
0% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
13.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$25.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
20.2%
Direct
74.8%
Referral
4.2%
Social
0.3%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~3K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
65 (2% of company)

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