Job Description

Join to apply for the Director, Digital Strategy | Sam's Club role at Sam's Club

Join to apply for the Director, Digital Strategy | Sam's Club role at Sam's Club

This range is provided by Sam's Club. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$132,000.00/yr - $264,000.00/yr

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

At Sam’s Club, we are member-obsessed. We look to add value to the Sam’s Club membership, and we partner with suppliers to bring unique and exciting values to our members. Sam’s Club Member Access Platform (MAP) is the nexus of the Supplier -Marketer- Merchant partnership and are responsible for delivering our suppliers (advertisers) impactful omni-channel member experiences that are married with measurable insights. MAP is evolving from a traditional retail media network into something more dynamic, more immersive and more aligned with how people shop, and becoming the first Retail Experience Network.

This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing, highly visible team within Sam’s Club, focused on planning and executing digital campaigns onsite and offsite leveraging our extensive and robust first-party membership data to drive impactful results for our brand partners. MAP is a key pillar within Sam’s Club growth strategy and critical to building the best, most engaging omni-channel experiences for our members.

As a Director of Digital Strategy, you will lead a team of Omni-channel Media Strategy Senior Managers responsible for building category level strategies, inclusive of onsite, offsite (eg. The Trade Desk, Meta), and in-club tactics, that will deliver (and exceed) advertiser goals, as well as provide expertise in recommendations for optimized plans. This role will partner shoulder-to-shoulder with the Head of Sales and Head of Account Management to create category-level plans to grow existing advertiser engagement as well as capture new advertisers for MAP. In addition, the Media Strategy team will also be responsible for providing channel-level expertise to the broader MAP team, including partnering with Education and Product on surfacing best practices for channel & tactic activation to optimize results. This role will report directly to the Head of Client Success for MAP.

The ideal candidate will have a strong baseline knowledge of how a digital omni-channel media business operates across offsite, onsite, and in-store, and ways to optimize channel mix to deliver on advertiser goals.

What you'll do:

• Lead the Omni-channel Media Strategy team that owns the strategic framework and creation of omnichannel media and activation plans with an execution mindset by understanding client goals and needs in close partnership with the Sales, Account Management, Media Activation and Product teams, amongst others.
• Develop and create a knowledge-base of the end-to-end member journey across tactics, in partnership with the Education team.
• Provide supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training mentoring assigning duties building a team-based work environment establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations providing recognition and rewards coaching for success and improvement and ensuring diversity awareness
• Promote and support company policies procedures mission values and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application ensuring compliance with them and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy
• Ensure client and business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans programs and initiatives consulting with business partners and/or other key stakeholders soliciting, evaluating and applying suggestions for improving impact and effectiveness against client goals.

What you'll bring:

• 15+years of digital media/ad ops/industry experience- retail media industry experience preferred
• 5+ years of leading large teams through foundational building of process to mature operational execution
• Knowledge and experience working with CRM, order management systems, ad servers, DSPs, BI platforms and other related advertising tools and systems.
• Strong understanding of the advertising technology and data/performance measurement trends
• Strong analytical thinking and the ability to clearly communicate findings and solutions, both written and verbal
• Demonstrable success as a leader of change, by achieving operational excellence by optimizing processes and systems.
• Ability to move fast, be bold, and thrive in a dynamic, quickly changing environment.
• Ability to effectively influence and communicate cross-functionally with a strong focus on collaboration.
• Demonstrates strong leadership with the ability to build, train, coach and develop a high performing team.
• Strong project management skills
• Excellent communication and writing skills.
• Capability to work proactively under pressure and handling multiple ad hoc requests.
• Ability to advise partners on best practices and areas of opportunity.
• Bachelor’s degree in business or related field.

Business Acumen:

• Strong working knowledge of Industry and environmental factors effecting clients and advertisers within the cross-platform media landscape
• Expertise in digital and shopper marketing platforms (ie. in club, booklets) with a focus on how they work together to deliver an end-to-end consumer experience
• Ability to synthesize omni-channel strategies based on advertiser goals and needs

Business & Financial Acumen:

• Requires knowledge of relevant financial and business management terminology, metrics, key performance indicators and budgeting
• Ability to understand the business choices and how it applies to the business context
• Develops business centric solutions that align to strategy and enable performance optimization for clients
• Effectively communicates the business level impact to diverse audiences and ensures understanding

Relationship Management:

• Requires expertise in Stakeholder identification and mapping Stakeholder analysis, Stakeholder communication, Stakeholder engagement techniques, Stakeholder management effectiveness tools and methods
• Fluency in many specialized business and media vernacular
• Establishes best practices for team members to collaborate with people from different cultures and have different perspectives
• Established shared goals and information sharing platform to foster collaboration
• Leads cross-functional strategic initiatives and encourages team to cultivate relationships across the businesses and markets
• Facilitates cross-functional team thinking and brainstorming activities to collectively create and share ideas
• Collaborates with partners in the value chain to achieve beneficial working relationships and positive outcomes across international markets
• Seeks out individuals with different perspectives to help foster creativity and personal growth

Omni-channel Marketing and Advertising Orientation:

• Require knowledge of Programmatic and online advertising
• Ability to leverage online tools to assess the impacts of online, print, and in-club advertisements and run ad hoc report for senior management
• Demonstrates expert-level knowledge of how advertisers run campaigns across online, print and in-club channels

Core Values:

• Demonstrates and encourages respect for all builds a high-performing team seeks and embraces differences in people cultures ideas and experiences creates a workplace where all associates feel seen supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform drives a positive associate and customer member experience for all identifies attracts and retains the best team members
• Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent through feedback coaching mentoring and developmental opportunities promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer, member and company and regularly recognizes others contributions and accomplishments
• Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives and communicates and listens attentively with energy and positivity to motivate influence and inspire commitment and action
• Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity ethics and compliance models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates customers and the world around us eg creating a sense of belonging eliminating waste participating in local giving
• Follows the law our code of conduct and company policies and sets expectations for others to do the same promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns and reinforces our culture of nonretaliation listens to concerns raised by associates takes action and encourages others to do the same holds self and others accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values
• Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble self aware honest and transparent
• Delivers expected business r]]>

Job Tags

Full time, Local area,

Similar Jobs