Marketing Manager

About This Role

The Local Marketing Manager will lead the strategic development and execution of regional and local marketing initiatives, driving profitable growth across the enterprise while supporting more than 5,000 Ace retailers. This role is responsible for overseeing field activation to ensure programs are effectively delivered, locally relevant, and performance driven.

Serving as a key retailer liaison within an assigned region, the Marketing Manager partners closely with individual stores, regional groups, and multi‑store retailers to deliver strategic, insight‑led marketing plans. Through strong collaboration and disciplined execution, this role helps retailers accelerate traffic, strengthen brand presence, and grow their businesses.

Candidates should possess a strong understanding of digital marketing platforms, including Google Ads and social media platforms to effectively drive online engagement and support retailer growth. Experience in leveraging these tools for targeted advertising, analytics, and campaign optimization is highly valued and will be integral to the role’s success.

• Facilitate retailer and vendor meetings gaining alignment on key marketing insights and objectives.
• Manage retailer relationships across individual stores, multi‑store groups, and Matching Funds Groups.
• Support execution of national and local marketing initiatives for retailers.
• Serve as primary point of contact for retailer marketing questions and needs.
• Coordinate vendor relationships across local marketing programs and partners.
• Build and present marketing materials for retailers, vendors, field teams, and leadership.
• Support new store onboarding and local marketing activation efforts.
• Assist store owners with digital marketing efforts, including optimizing Google Business Profile pages and supporting stores in managing their social media presence across platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

• You are organized, focused, high energy and willing to take a leadership mindset to drive results for our retailers.

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent, and five to ten years of progressively responsible multi‑unit retail experience.
• Deep understanding of retail operations and business fundamentals.
• Proven ability to influence Retailers and drive the execution of optimal marketing practices.
• Ability to access the local competitive environment and develop appropriate retail marketing strategies.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills.
• Digital and Traditional Marketing and/or Analytics experience.
• Strong PC skills to include Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Demonstrates the ability to quickly adapt to new technologies, mastering a range of marketing tools to support business objectives and enhance operational efficiency.
• Excellent teamwork skills with proven ability to influence cross‑functional teams without formal authority.
• Ability to work independently with little or no supervision.
• Ability to work flexible hours and regularly travel overnight.

$102,900 - $128,600 per year

We live our values – W.E.L.I.G.H.T (Winning, Excellence, Love, Integrity, Gratitude, Humility, and Teamwork). Gratitude. Humility. Love. You don’t often see values like these in most corporate statements, but Ace is different. These things are important to us. They represent our commitment to the company, our employees, to Ace retailers and to the Ace brand.

In addition to providing our employees a great culture, Ace also offers competitive benefits that address life’s necessities and perks, many of which expand and improve year after year, including:

• Incentive opportunities, based on role/grade level (company growth over the past 5 years resulted in incentives being paid out at an average of 122% of your target opportunity!)
• Generous 401(k) retirement savings plan with a fully vested matching contribution the first year in addition to quarterly contributions and annual discretionary contribution (once eligibility requirements have been met). Over the past 5 years, company contributions (matching, quarterly & discretionary) for…