Senior Retail Strategist

Senior Retail Strategist

Chicago, Illinois, United States

About Flywheel

Flywheel's suite of digital commerce solutions accelerate growth across all major digital marketplaces for the world's leading brands. We give clients access to near real-time performance measurement and improve sales, share, and profit. With teams across the Americas, Europe and APAC, we offer a career with real impact, endless growth opportunities and the support you need to be the best you can be.

Opportunity

An experienced miner of insights who understands today's consumers and the retail environment they shop in to develop compelling, insight-rich and data-driven strategies that inspire creative and drive purchase.

What You'll Do:

• Partner with Strategy leadership to build brands through full funnel marketing initiatives.
• Command a thorough understanding of assigned brands including consumer/shopper demographics, psychographics and media.
• Research of relevant data (primary and secondary sources) and thoughtful analysis that can be used to develop communication strategies.
• Understand category dynamics and trends that affect our brands, their shoppers and the retailers.
• Work with cross functional team leads to diagnose our commerce "problem to solve."
• Demonstrate resourcefulness in finding secondary research.
• Assume a key role in developing creative and strategic briefs.
• Develop shopper journeys and apply their inputs into actionable strategic outputs.
• Create collaborative and trusted relationships with cross-functional agency team members and client teams.
• Understand the practical application of methods and techniques needed for qualitative and quantitative research and analytics.

Who You Are:

• Solid presentation skills.
• High level of intellectual curiosity.
• Well-developed analytical thinking skills.
• Strong team player.
• Highly organized, flexible, ability to adapt to unique situations and projects; able to thrive in changing, dynamic environment.
• Strong time-management and active listening skills.
• Self-starter with strong initiative.
• Committed to growth and open to constructive feedback.

Flywheel Commerce Network is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location.

Salary Range

$70,000 - $80,000 USD

Working at Flywheel

We are proud to offer all Flywheelers a competitive rewards package and unparalleled career growth opportunities and a supportive, fun and engaging culture.

• We have office hubs across the globe where team members can go to feel productive, inspired, and connected to others - team members go into Hub Offices 3x a week
• Competitive paid time off, including annual leave plus paid public holidays
• Great learning and development opportunities
• Benefits that help you live your best life
• Parental leave and benefits
• Volunteering opportunities
• If you're looking to connect with teammates on a topic of inclusion and identity, chances are there's an ERG for that.
• So you know: The hired candidate will be required to complete a background check
• Learn more about us here: Life at Flywheel

The Interview Process:

Every role starts the same, an introductory call with someone from our Talent Acquisition team. We will be looking for company and values-fit as well as your professional experience; there may be some technical role-specific questions during this call. Every role is different after the initial call, but you can expect to meet several people from the team 1:1 and there might be further skill assessments in the form of a Take Home Assignment/Case Study Presentation or Pair Programming/Live Coding exercise depending on the role. In your initial call, we will walk you through exactly what to expect the process to be.

Inclusive Workforce

Flywheel Commerce Network's goal is to create a culture where all individuals of all backgrounds feel comfortable in bringing their authentic selves to work. We want all people to feel included and empowered to contribute fully to our vision and goals. Flywheel Commerce Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. All applicants will receive fair consideration for employment. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

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