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Senior Marketing Manager

The Senior Manager, Media Strategies oversees all planning and budgeting aspects of traditional and digital media, and is a key part of driving our corporate media strategy. This role is the public face for the broader Integrated Media/Online Marketing Team, and is thus responsible for working with the category, brand marketing, and merchandising teams to create media plans that achieve specific business goals by utilizing industry/customer trends and past media results. This Sr. Manager role requires someone who is detailed, a very strong communicator, and someone who can manage large amounts of data.
Why work here? Our entrepreneurial roots and maverick mentality, coupled with the resources and backing of the #1 home improvement retailer in the world, The Home Depot, is a unique opportunity for you to be a transformative retail disrupter. Plus, GCC is the world’s largest online window covering company, and we’ve got a demonstrably awesome 20-year track record. From our open-floor office to our open-door ethos, our culture is rooted in improving, evolving, and having fun (we’re pretty serious about cake, cook-offs, ping pong, meaningful work and exciting projects). Most importantly, our team members are always inspired, engaged, and ready for growth.
That means you’ll have the resources and the runway to create truly magical, out-of-the-box work. Moreover, you will play an important role in leveraging our culture, people, systems, processes, and technology – ultimately to provide incredible customer and associate experiences, while growing business for GCC and The Home Depot. This is your chance to be part of something big, in a small start-up environment.
We’re ranked as one of The Top 5 Workplaces in Texas and have consistently won the following awards: The Best Place to Work in Houston (Houston Business Journal), Houston’s Top Workplaces (Houston Chronicle) and Houston’s Best and Brightest.

Key Responsibilities:

• 30% Partner with marketing category/brand teams to develop media recommendations that support key business goals and objectives.
• 20% Develop and maintain strong relationships with other critical partners such as broader marketing, merchants,
• and other cross-functional teams (creative, social, finance, Consumer Insights, CRM, HD.Com, PR, etc.)
• 20% Evaluate media performance and incorporate learnings into current and future planning
• 15% Invest in learning about new and emerging media trends/opportunities that will help drive our business and create competitive advantage
• 15% Macro-level Budget management

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This position reports to GC Director of Marketing
• This position has up to 4 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advertising media agency planning/buying experience
• Previous client-side media planning experience
• Previous management experience
• Ecommerce advertising experience
• Master’s degree

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor’s degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 5

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Possesses strong leadership abilities and experience managing teams and cross functional work relationships, both internally and with external agency and media partners.
• A high degree of comfort in public speaking and a high level of influencing skills are pre-requisites for success due to the high amount of interaction with teams outside of the core Media team.