The Senior Manager, E-Commerce will deliver digital commerce growth for our brands across omnichannel retailers, online marketplaces, and pureplay. This role will own the end-to-end e-commerce marketing strategy, execution, and performance while providing cross-functional leadership and agency oversight. The ideal candidate has a strong background in Retail Media strategy & execution, Digital Shelf content development, optimization, and syndication, and experience collaborating with customer sales teams.
Responsibilities Include:
- Define and execute e-commerce marketing strategy and objectives aligned with overall business goals across channels (Omnichannel, Online Marketplaces, PurePlay/ Quick Commerce).
- Identify the resources needed to deliver eCommerce growth objectives and build into Omni-Channel Strategy Team annual and 3-year plans.
- Build relationships and drive Influence with cross functional team members such as brand marketing, sales, category management, and insights, to advance eCommerce objections across the organization.
- Retail Media & Performance Marketing - Lead Retail Media strategy, including sponsored search and display media, and be accountable to execution across all platforms (Walmart, Kroger, Target, Instacart, etc.
- Set performance KPIs and oversee campaign execution, budget management, and optimization.
- Set guidelines and guardrails for retail media investment as part of customer JBP and annual selling cycles.
- Partner closely with customer sales teams and ShopCom customer leads to incorporate retail media strategy within overall customer marketing plans.
- Partner closely with Wells Media Team to integrate retail media investment into full funnel IMC planning for brands.
- Digital Shelf Excellence - Responsible for developing Digital Shelf Excellence strategy including PDP content (images, copy, reviews) to drive online visibility and conversion, and organic optimization drivers for priority customers.
- Build relationships with online grocery / retailer.com merchandising teams to translate holistic brand and customer goals to the digital shelf.
- Partner with brand marketing teams to ensure brand positioning and key RTBs are communicated in content strategy.
- Partner with Wells Data Management Team to ensure timely and accurate syndication of Digital Shelf Content across customers.
- Manage direct report to lead execution and management of Digital Shelf strategies.
- Agency and Partner Management - Lead retail media agency team (part of media AOR) to execute retail media investment to achieve eCommerce marketing objectives.
- Define best practices, learning agendas, and needs for score carding and data visualization.
- Ensure retail media, particularly offline programmatic display strategies, are integrated as part of total media planning process for media agency.
- Identify external resources / agencies / services required to achieve Digital Shelf excellence and be responsible for plan to ensure successful implementation with the org.
- Data Analytics & Insights - Develop eCommerce / online scorecards including sales performance, media performance, and digital shelf health.
- Leverage data from internal systems, retail platforms, and 3rd-party tools to drive decisions and improve ROI.
- Partner with BI and analytics teams to build dashboards and performance tracking tools
- Innovation & Thought Leadership - Stay ahead of trends in e-commerce, digital media, and consumer behavior to inform strategy and recommend innovation pilots.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or related field (MBA preferred).
- 7+ years of experience in E-Commerce or Omnichannel Retail, preferably within a CPG or FMCG environment. Experience on the client side or agency side required. Candidate must have experience managing (either hands-on-key or leading agency / team members) retail media campaigns across multiple platforms. Handson-keys experience a plus but not required. Experience managing direct report employee.
- In depth knowledge of retail media platforms Walmart (WMC), Instacart, Kroger (KPM) and others.
- Understand sponsored search and programmatic retailer display media buying fundamentals.
- Experience using Digital Shelf Health measurement platforms like Profitero, CommerceIQ, Stackline, etc., to build digital shelf scorecards.
- Experience using POS and Panel syndicated sales data like Circana and Nielsen.
- Familiarity with syndication and PIM/DAM tools (e.g., Salsify, OneSpace).
- Proven leadership experience within eComm / Online Grocery and ability to connect eComm objectives to broader org objectives.
- Highly analytical; comfortable with data platforms and drawing actionable insights o Exceptional communication and influencing skills.
- Demonstrated ability to operate both strategically and tactically in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Need to be a proactive, self-starter and be able to identify “the jobs that need to be done” to deliver aligned eComm strategies.
- Must be comfortable working with ambiguity and making recommendations and action plans without perfect information.
- Collaborative cross functional partner; strategic and results-driven agency leader.
The base pay range for this position is $128,000 to $179,000 annually. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors permitted by law. This pay range represents the anticipated salary for this position at this time.
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