Responsabilities:
Media Planning: Create annual, quarterly, and event plans across Amazon (Ads/DSP), Walmart, and Target. Define channel mix, funnel allocation, and spend based on inventory, seasonality, and defensible assumptions, including reserved testing budgets.
Forecasting & Budgets: Manage budget pacing and scenario-based sales forecasts linking spend to topline revenue. Balance efficiency targets with incrementality.
Analysis: Perform hands-on data interrogation using search, DSP, and business reports. Leverage Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) for path-to-purchase, audience overlap, and new-to-brand (NTB) metrics.
Business & Margin Acumen: Master the economics of each brand (contribution margins, inventory constraints, marketing calendars). You will document this and be tested on it at 30, 60, and 90 days. Proactively pivot plans as goals change.
Growth & Audiences: Uncover new demand (untapped search terms, competitor share). Build and test advanced AMC/DSP audiences (lapsed, lookalikes) using a strict hypothesis-test-scale-kill framework.
Team Leadership: Coach analysts on daily campaign work, QA, bulk-op hygiene, and documentation. Ensure optimizations align with overall strategy. Lead analyst training and review gates.
Client Communication: Present strategies to senior client leadership with firm recommendations, not just options. Tailor messaging to specific stakeholders (CFO vs. Founder) and proactively address poor performance with a solution.