Marketing Project Management Specialist

Digital Marketing Project Coordinator - Store Marketing Strategy

Columbus, OH – Hybrid

6-month contract with likelihood of extension and/or conversion

The Assistant/Associate, Stores Marketing Strategy role will own operational work for stores marketing. They are a member of the brand experience team, and help to ensure our internal brick-and-mortar channels receive accurate marketing to set their business up for success. They report to the Sr. Specialist of Stores’ Marketing strategy and partner with several cross-functional teams across the organization, including Promotional Strategists, Visual Merchandising, Marketing Procurement, Creative/Design, and Store Operations.

The Assistant/Associate will work to be proficient in store formats and signage types for the brands and strive to bring efficiencies and creative problem-solving to aid operational signpack process. This job is located at our Global Home Office in Columbus, Ohio.

• Supports store marketing experience and planning strategy- seeing through select stores initiatives from experience sprint to execution.
• Support store marketing reference tools that direct seasonal campaign placements, as well as promotional strategies across all regions.
• Consistently monitor the forums that District Manager’s use to communicate with the Global Home Office to address any marketing issues. These include order and delivery questions, reorder issues, and general questions.
• Responsible for auditing store marketing files before they go to print, ensuring original intent and strategy is brought to life through the creative artwork
• Oversee the language translation process for international stores marketing and partnering with the third-party translations vendor.
• Build relationships with store ops team to consistently receive feedback from stores on how customers experience our marketing and bring back opportunity to store marketing leads.
• Works to understand the various store types, sign sizes, and marketing hardware.
• Support the execution of POS screens and store video screens, including relationship with IT/store media partners.
• Own New Store Opening processes and execution, including: NSO signage, large format marketing and marketing clusters;
  Store communication for marketing clusters;
  Support Stores Marketing Leads with any ad-hoc store specific requests for elevated locations
• Strong partnership with fellow brand experience team members, procurement, visual merchandising, store operations, and creative teams to support team with accurate, clear, and concise store marketing orders.
• Works with key cross-functional partners to determine store purge lists and overall management of store sign library.

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or related field
• 1-3+ years of marketing and/or project management experience
• Attention to detail a must
• Strong project management and inter-departmental coordination skills
• High attention to detail, organization, and time management
• Jira experience is a plus
• Experience in a fast paced, multi-channel retail environment is preferred
• Global perspective and international experience a plus