VP, Global Commerce

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$200K/yr – $240K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 11 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own and scale the commerce practice from leadership and talent development to global delivery, while owning the commerce POV, AI-enabled production, and measurement intelligence to demonstrate impact.

  • Lead and grow the team, define operating models, and expand the discipline beyond North America
  • Own the commerce strategy, client advisory, and end-to-end content operations and measurement capabilities

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Practice leadership & growth
  • - Build the bench. Recruit, mentor, and scale the team; define the operating model and the specialist craft beneath the leader.
  • - Grow the offering. Convert capability into new business and expanded scope with existing clients. Evolve from a North America centric business to global.
  • Commerce strategy & client advisory
  • - Own the commerce POV Marks brings to its largest CPG & Retail clients — digital shelf, retail media adjacency, content supply chain, and the path from strategy and creative to assets to sell-through.
  • - Engage as a peer. Sit across from client Commerce and eCommerce leaders as a subject-matter peer; convert ambiguity into instrumented, fundable pilots rather than decks.
  • Digital shelf & commerce content operations
  • - Lead production end-to-end. PDP and A+ content, variant generation, retailer feed syndication, metadata discipline, and channel adaptation at portfolio scale. Marks has a fully global and embedded content solutions team to support the needs of the Commerce practice.
  • - Hold the operating numbers. Quality, throughput, and margin on the practice
  • Measurement & performance.

Requirements

  • 10+ years in digital commerce / eCommerce / digital shelf, with meaningful operating depth — not purely strategy or brand-digital.
  • 6+ years leading teams; experience building or scaling a commerce capability inside an agency, retailer, or brand.
  • Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree a plus. Modern commerce-agency or commerce-platform background strongly preferred over a generalist brand-digital profile.

Benefits

  • Group benefits currently include a selection of health care plans with prescription drug coverage, dental plan, vision plan, basic and supplemental life insurance, a flexible spending account for medical and dependent care expenses or a health savings account based on plan selection, short/long term disability and 401(k) Savings Plan.
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SGS & Co

SGS & Co, part of the Propelis Group, is a global brand impact group delivering speed and quality through innovation and insights to drive impact for our world class clients. We combine deep expertise in design, graphic services, production, technology and process optimization with unmatched marketplace understanding, dynamic ideas and client first customer service. We bring the world’s best brands to life and set them up for success in a modern world. SGS & Co shifts brands to impact through the strength of our people. Our team of nearly 5,000 employees across 30+ countries works collaboratively to exceed client expectations today and anticipate how we’ll need to pivot together to win tomorrow. We take pride in our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion along with our ambition to lead the industry to a more sustainable future to drive positive impact for our clients, our people, and our planet.

Founded in 1946
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
3.4K employees (888 in marketing)

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69.5K
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Current headcount: ~3.4K

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