Senior Manager, Marketing Planning And Strategy

Position Summary

Senior Creative Strategist, Consumables Key Accounts

About Walmart Connect:
Walmart Connect is Walmart’s rapidly growing advertising platform designed to help brands engage with consumers across its vast omnichannel ecosystem. Our mission is to connect brands more meaningfully with customers through impactful advertising solutions. Leveraging Walmart’s unparalleled data and scale, we provide measurable results for our partners. Lightbox Creative is transforming the retail media landscape by delivering innovative and creative marketing campaigns for top global brands.

We produce creative executions that are insights‑driven, on‑brand, and ultimately lead to a memorable experience for the end‑user while driving impact for advertisers.

Location:

Hoboken

The Senior Creative Strategist will be responsible for developing compelling omnichannel creative strategies for brands that align with the business objectives of Walmart and top advertising partners.

The Strategist is a talented storyteller with a pulse on advertising trends and impacts and can create effective narratives for multiple audiences.

In partnership with the Art Director and Production team, they will create unique, custom and high‑impact marketing and creative solutions for Walmart Connect advertisers, collaborating across Walmart Connect and with Enterprise Marketing, Site Merchants, and Retail Marketing.

The ideal candidate is a strong marketing strategist, business writer and visual presenter who can work in multiple mediums.

The candidate is a collaborative creative professional who can craft effective frameworks, compelling case studies, and persuasive storylines, and is passionate about leading a team.

This role is right for you if you have expertise in building and maintaining strong business relationships, possess a unique ability to translate data into actionable insights, have exceptional project management skills, and are equally passionate about planning and execution of ideas.

• Develop innovative and forward‑thinking marketing and creative solutions for Walmart Connect’s top advertisers inspired by collaborative creative thought leadership.
• Actively engage in cross‑functional planning sessions with product, strategy, marketing, and sales to develop, execute, and optimize actionable, results‑oriented category and supplier‑specific media and marketing strategies.
• Develop and execute creative strategies for top brands, aligning with marketing and business objectives.
• Lead senior‑level client conversations, including strategic presentations, working sessions, and external negotiations.
• Act as a consultative partner to advertisers, proactively identifying opportunities to extend and evolve existing strategies within the Walmart ecosystem.
• Bring a strong point of view informed by category dynamics, cultural signals, and economic trends to influence client and internal decision‑making.
• Bridge creative strategy with business objectives, ensuring solutions are both inspiring and commercially impactful.
• Curate, author and amplify creative narratives across the organization.
• Oversee multiple projects concurrently in a fast‑paced environment.
• Partner with Marketing Ops to develop metrics, measure performance and quantify impacts/results through qualitative and quantitative strategies including stakeholder feedback.
• Establish links between Walmart Connect and Walmart marketing, ensuring consistency between Walmart’s supplier advertising initiatives and Walmart’s own customer messaging.
• Manage the cross‑functional connection points, processes and planning cycles between Walmart marketing, cross‑category solutions, seasonal, site experience and product teams.

• Demonstrated executive presence and comfort engaging with senior client stakeholders.
• Ability to balance creative thinking with data‑informed strategic rigor.
• Experience navigating ambiguity and leading through complex, cross‑functional environments.
• Strong understanding of how cultural, media, and economic trends impact brand and retail strategy.
• A “go‑getter” mentality with a track record of going beyond the brief to deliver value.