Retail Marketing Manager (HYBRID)

Job Title: Retail Marketing Manager

Client Location: HYBRID - Wellesley, MA or Woonsocket, RI

Starting: 07/08/2024

Salary/Pay Rate: $30-34 per hour

Firm, non-negotiable: Yes

Hours: Full-time

Duration: 5 Months with Possible Extension

Job Description:

Aquent's leading retail pharma client is looking to add a dynamic Retail Marketing Manager to join their growing team. This role will contribute to the development of marketing solutions and campaigns for the In-Store Health and Wellness Marketing team. In this role, you will leverage various marketing tactics and channels; including owned assets and paid media channels to create awareness and increase engagement with current customers. You will play a vital role in independently leading marketing projects and working cross-functionally to help ensure larger marketing strategies deliver the necessary business and consumer outcomes on-time, on-budget, and on-strategy. This role will work closely with many cross-functional partners including marketing, merchandising, creative, legal, etc. This assignment will last 6 months and is expected to be hybrid on site in Wellesley, MA.

Duties:

- Support development of marketing plans rooted in consumer, competitor, and company insights.

- Manage projects from initiation through execution – thought partnership with marketing brief creation, gain stakeholder alignment, kickoff with internal partners, gain approvals and ensure timely implementation.

- Marketing Briefs: Contribute to the strategic marketing brief, the framework and foundation for a marketing initiative or campaign, and is responsible for individual tactical marketing briefs.

- Execution and Optimization: Leads execution of all project deliverables including, but not limited to, brief development, collaboration with Procurement on print production deliverables, collaboration with Operations on field readiness, and Legal review of materials.

- Manage timelines and deliverables in Workfront (aggregate stakeholder feedback, enter approvals, etc)

- Consumer and Industry Insights: Proactively self-educate around retail and marketing industry trends to identify best practice opportunities and influence marketing strategies.

- Build Collaborative Relationships: Manage and develop strong, collaborative relationships with partners across the organization (both up and down levels) and lead cross-functional teams to ensure consistent communication and execution of strategy.

Additional responsibilities to include but not limited to:

- Product SKU strategy and selection

- Project recaps, which include tactic overviews and performance

Experience Required:

- 2-5 years of marketing experience in retail, agency or consumer brands

- Self-motivated individual who can function and win in a demanding, performance-driven environment

- Excellent communication skills that can be effectively articulated in both written and oral forms across a diverse audience base

- Proven track record of working collaboratively with internal and external business partners

- Integrated marketing experience across a variety of channels and tactics

- Experience working in a large, matrixed organization

- Experience with PowerPoint, Outlook, Word and proficiency in Excel

- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or related field

The target hiring compensation range for this role is the equivalent of $31.05 to $34.50 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

Additional benefits offered may include; medical health insurance and dental insurance, life insurance, and eligibility to participate in 401k plan with company match.

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Client Description:

This Client:

• Is considered by Fast Company to be amongst the most innovative companies
• Is listed by Forbes as one of the world’s most admired companies
• Makes it their mission to guide people toward better health
• This includes altering the products they offer at retail to more health-conscious offerings!

Our client has recently made a move toward a major merger, which means this is a great time to get involved! Two big industry brands coming together.

Working here gets you into a fast-paced environment, with tons of cross-functional working relationships. You’d have exposure to a number of teams related to any project you’re working on, and we sometimes see freelancers convert to permanent employees on teams they’ve had the opportunity to interact with. This is definitely a standout opportunity!

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