Shopper Marketing Manager (Walmart and Sam's Club)

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POSITION SUMMARY:
Food & Beverage is constantly evolving, with consumers looking for true Omnichannel experiences to meet their shopping needs.Overall, shopper marketing plays a crucial role in driving sales, increasing brand visibility, and enhancing the overall shopping experience for consumers. It helps companies connect with shoppers at the point of purchase and create meaningful interactions that drive business growth.Putting our shoppers at the center of everything we do, this role will have responsibilities across NUSA Brands and supports and partners with the NUSA Sales, Marketing, and Brand teams to drive the category and conversion of NUSA products. We are seeking a digitally savvy Shopper Marketing Manager to lead strategy and execution for NUSA brands for Walmart and Sam's Club.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead Shopper Marketing Strategy and Execution for Walmart and Sam's Club, identifying the core shopper insights, setting objectives, developing & executing the omni-channel plans to deliver business goals and meet or exceed KPIs across the shopper journey.
• Lead the management of agencies and vendors that includes briefing, evaluating strategy and creative, communication across key stakeholders.
• Lead the development of shopper programming with an omnichannel approach (Paid Search, Digital Media, POS, etc) that includes partnering with Retail Media Network, creative and media agency partners and internal stakeholders to maximize the shopper investment.
• Own relationship with Walmart Connect and MAP to drive performance accountability and maintain strong understanding of evolving capabilities.
• Build compelling selling tools/presentations to aid Sales partners in securing retailer support of distribution, key promotions, etc...
• Steer strategic internal annual planning on the Joint Business Planning - requires liaising with customer team through the development their customer plans that are aligned with the customer's problem to solve and NUSA priorities.
• Share out of program measurement, evaluation, and analysis. Demonstrates the ability to optimize future programs to deliver the best return. Test & learn mentality to evaluate omni-commerce tactics and cutting-edge program activation elements.
• Build and maintains multi-discipline relationships within the organization and with the retailer, including developing and delivering presentations to gain buy-in and to drive results. Examples are inclusive of, but not limited to: Annual Planning, Retailer line reviews, Retailer sales meetings, Investment requests, etc.
• Effectively managing the specific customer shopper marketing budget, with responsibility for both working and non-working dollars.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum of 5 years of CPG brand/marketing/sales and/or Shopper Marketing experience
• Bachelor's degree
• 4+ years of traditional CPG Shopper marketing role preferred.
• WMC / MAP experience preferred
• Agency management experience
• Intermediate to advanced analytics, digital/e-commerce and omni-commerce knowledge
• General manager mindset, thought leader and skilled collaborator with strong communication (clear and concise storytelling)
• Experience in Sales & Marketing, leading marketing and/or shopper communication
• Strong attention to detail and follow through.
• Thrives in change and comfortable with ambiguity.
• Ability to travel as needed for client meetings and industry events

SKILLS:

• Positive, all-in attitude and a willingness to embrace change in a growing and evolving business.
• Strong collaborative nature: ability to work in a cross-functional team environment.
• Is curious and takes initiative, develops, and seek out creative and innovative ideas with strong project management skills.
• Financial acumen related to managing a budget, ROI analysis and budget optimization.
• Influential and effective communicator proficient in storytelling and negotiating.
• Ability to leverage data and trends to generate insights, and ultimately solutions, that drive shopper behaviors.
• Understanding of the omni-channel environment with proficiency in paid search investment
• Understanding of US retailers and their go-to-market strategies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word

Requisition ID: :330887

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