Director, Media Strategy & Planning

Overview

The Director of Media Strategy and Planning is responsible for leading and developing media strategies and plans at a national and regional level in support of Sprouts Farmers Market. The ideal candidate leverages a customer first mindset and a data driven approach. They are passionate about the media landscape, have strong experience in both traditional and digital channels, and have a proven track record of connecting media performance to business results. The role will work in close partnership with cross functional partners including brand, creative, and ecommerce, as well as field operations, legal, finance and other functions as needed across the business.

Essential Functions

• Leads paid media strategies and activations across both traditional and digital channels such as video, SEM, social, display and audio.
• Plans, executes, and optimizes paid media campaigns to drive brand awareness, consideration customer acquisition, and traffic growth for both physical stores and ecommerce shopping channels.
• Develops corresponding measurement framework to connect media efforts to business results and demonstrate efficacy of investments.
• Represents paid media team in leadership forums and is able to effectively communicate plans and performance to multiple audience with varying levels of media knowledge.
• Ensures all investment budgets and media channels are accurately tracked across campaigns and fiscal quarters including fees such as commission, service, tech and ad serving charges.
• Builds and leads a high-performing paid media team, providing guidance, training, and mentorship to drive individual and team success.
• Manages media agency relationship providing direction, timing, and guidance to successfully drive the work.
• Stays update to date with the latest industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies to drive innovation and creativity with internal teams.
• Contributes to strategic business planning, direction, and goal setting for the department, in collaboration with senior management.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Physical Requirements

• Has a deep understanding of both traditional and digital channels including video, audio, ooh, search, social and display.
• Experience leading media investments at a national and regional level utilizing both brand building and performance based approaches.
• Experience within the retail industry across physical store and ecommerce shopping channels.
• Experience in building and leading strong agency relationships, providing priorities and clear communication to yield positive outcomes.
• Ability to condense complex ideas into comprehensible pieces, think critically, analyze performance and opportunities, and find solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present recommendations and data-driven insights to stakeholders at all levels.
• High Proficiency in using data analytics tools to track and measure campaign performance (ie., Google Analytics, social media analytics, etc.).
• Bachelor's degree required
• 8+ year(s) media and marketing experience
• 6+ years of experience leading a marketing team

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Benefits

In addition to a rewarding career, Sprouts offers a comprehensive program to help support you and your family. These programs include:

• Competitive pay
• Sick time plan that you can use to support you or your immediate families health
• Vacation accrual plan
• Opportunities for career growth
• 15% discount for you and one other family member in your household on all purchases made at Sprouts
• Flexible schedules
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(K) Retirement savings plan with a generous company match
• Company paid life insurance
• Contests and appreciation events throughout the year full of prizes, food and fun!

Eligibility requirements may apply for the following benefits:

• Bonus based on company and/or individual performance
• Affordable benefit coverage, including medical, dental and vision
• Health Savings Account with company match
• Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
• Company paid short-term disability coverage
• Paid parental leave for both mothers and fathers
• Paid holidays

Get Paid Every Day!

Sprouts Farmers Market offers DailyPay - if you're hired as an eligible employee, you'll be able to transfer the money you've already earned at no extra cost, and get it the next business day, for free . We offer DailyPay so you don't have to wait for payday to access the money you've already worked for. With DailyPay, you can see how much you've made every day and you can transfer your money any time before payday.

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Why Sprouts

Grow with us!

If you have a passion for inspiring people and a flair for fresh food, consider applying for a job at Sprouts! With a focus on customer service, our neighborhood grocery stores offer high-quality, farm fresh produce, natural meats, plenty of scoop-your-own bulk goods and much more in a fun, friendly, old-fashioned farmer's market setting. Come grow your career in healthy living with a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and teams that pride themselves on empowering others along their journey.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and requirements. Sprouts' management reserves the right to amend and change duties, responsibilities, and requirements to meet business and organizational needs as necessary.

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