Manager, Retail Media

About Ovative Group:

Ovative Group is the premier independent media and measurement firm in the United States. We help change-makers, in fast-growing, customer-centric organizations across industries reinvent their marketing and measurement programs. We leverage our media, measurement, and consulting capabilities to help brands like Coach, Kate Spade, Stuart Weitzman, Facebook, The Home Depot, CVS, Disney, and UnitedHealth Group transform their media and marketing programs. Our proprietary approach to measuring and optimizing marketing investment decisions, Enterprise Marketing Return (EMR), is disrupting the industry and setting the gold standard for customer and marketing strategy, activation, and measurement.

Recognized eight consecutive years on Star Tribune’s list of Top 150 Workplaces and five years on Inc. 5000’s list of the fastest-growing private companies in America, we pride ourselves in always overdelivering for our clients, our teams, and our communities.

About the Role:

The Retail Media team is developing industry-leading strategy, optimizations, and measurement of the retail media landscape. We envision that Retail Media will play an increasing role in the marketing mix and our team is positioned to be a strategic partner to move our clients forward. As an Audience Activation Manager on the team, you will help guide the vision and drive the results. Your core mission will be to accelerate the impact retail media advertising has on improving enterprise marketing return. The ideal candidate demonstrates great critical thinking, solid understanding of retail media paid search capabilities and is motivated by driving results for our clients.

Responsibilities of Retail Media Audience Activation Manager:

• Client relationship management:
  • Own, manage and grow the overall relationship and performance of some of Ovative Group’s largest clients
  • Lead day-to-day management of client retail media programs including:
  • Clearly defining program objectives, tactics and KPIs
  • Developing and delivering client communication
  • Effectively manage client relationship and establish trust and credibility
  • Strive to be the best interaction of the client’s day
• Performance media management & execution:
  • Guide, manage, and support execution of client retail media programs including:
    • Strategy and campaign planning, integrated with all Ovative services
    • Strategic audience planning
    • Strategic partner management across key Retail Media Networks (Amazon, Walmart, Instacart, Home Depot, Target, etc.) and technology partners (The Trade Desk, Verizon/Yahoo, Meta, Pinterest, Criteo, PromoteIQ, etc.)
    • Work with cross-channel team leads to regularly evaluate the effectiveness of media briefs and update based on changes to overarching business strategies, client feedback, learnings, and research
    • Streamline planning process with cross-channel planning teams, account managers, retailers, and media partners
    • Actively identify new test and learn opportunities to build on expertise and unlock new capabilities
    • Custom analysis, reporting and insights that can scale across the channel
    • Retail media network strategy and management, including onsite display, offsite programmatic display, and other retail media network tactics
• Team leadership and employee development:
  • Be a leader in defining and building our Retail Media practice
  • Drive strategic channel capabilities forward and owning key solution area accountabilities
  • Support staffing strategy and help recruit, train and manage new Ovative team members
  • Inspire your direct reports to reach their quarterly, annual, and long-term goals
  • Foster a culture of open communication and 360-degree feedback
• Cross-functional strategy & thought leadership:
  • Act as a subject matter expert for Retail Media by continually evolving Ovative’s approach to best practices; vetting and partnering with new technology companies; managing planning and execution tools, and staying on top of emerging trends
  • Develop and drive forward multi-channel digital media strategies and roadmaps aligned with client program growth goals
  • Support higher level, cross-functional marketing strategy projects by providing deep media expertise

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience directly responsible for retail media (Amazon, Walmart, Instacart, etc), Display, Paid Social, or related programs
• Proven mastery of the following:
• Performance-based, direct-response Amazon and retail media programs
• Execution with retail media technologies and tools (g. Amazon Advertising (AMS, DSP, AAP), The Trade Desk, Pacvue, Criteo, PromoteIQ, Profitero, and other technologies)
• External partner management (Amazon, Walmart, Instacart, technology partners, etc.)
• Previous experience in performance marketing, retail, eCommerce, etc. preferred
• Experience managing direct reports

Pay Transparency

At Ovative, we offer a transparent view into three core components of your total compensation package: Base Salary, Annual Bonus, and Benefits. The salary range for this position below is inclusive of an annual bonus. Actual offers are made with consideration for relevant experience and anticipated impact. Additional benefits information is provided below.

For our Manager positions, our compensation ranges from $79,000 to $132,000, which is inclusive of a 20% bonus.

Benefits of working at Ovative Group

We provide strong, competitive, holistic benefits that understand the importance of your life inside and out of work

Culture:

Culture matters and we’ve been recognized as a Top Workplace four-years running because of it. We demand trust and transparency from each other. We believe in doing the hard and complicated work others put off. We’re open in communication and floor plan. We’re flat – our interns sit next to VPs, our analysts work closely with senior leaders, and our CEO interacts with every single person daily. Put together, these elements help foster an environment where smart people can support each other in performing to their highest potential.

Compensation and insurance:

We strive to hire and retain the best talent in the Twin Cities. Paying fair, competitive compensation, with a large bonus incentive, and phenomenal health insurance is an important part of this mix. We’re rewarded fairly and when the company performs well, we all benefit.

Tangible amenities we enjoy:

• Flexible paid vacation policy
• 401k match program
• Free parking and on-site fitness center with locker rooms
• Sabbatical program
• Charitable giving via our time and a financial match program
• Shenanigan’s day

Working at Ovative won’t be easy, but if you like getting your hands dirty, driving results, and being surrounded by the best talent, it’ll be the most rewarding job you’ll ever have. If you think you can make us better, we want to hear from you!