Head of Marketing and Advertising

The Home Depot is redefining the future of retail to enable doers to get more done. As the 4th largest retailer and 7th largest ecommerce retailer in the US, our marketing team sits at the intersection of brands, ideas, customers, media and content for The Home Depot. We are seeking a manager to be a key architect of enterprise marketing initiatives that are integrated across internal and external channels. This person will be charged with identifying, evaluating, designing, and executing marketing initiatives against aggressive brand building and sales driving goals.

This candidate will lead strategy working with our business partners, marketing and channel leaders and agency partners to determine the optimal mix of tactics, creative, messaging, insights and marketing to advance our brand strategy through a key business initiative. They will be instrumental in powering a cross-functional partnership between teams overseeing efforts to best accelerate development, implementation and measured customer adoption of the collective marketing channel roadmaps and brand strategy. Success in understanding data, insights and translating trends into action will be critical to ensure that the customer experience is of the highest quality in order to drive sales.

The Manager role takes ownership of work streams that are most critical to our strategic brand vision and will have exposure to The Home Depot business to build trusted working relationships while affecting change from within one of the world’s leading retailers.

10% Brand Awareness - Help drive demand creation by creating brand awareness activities for internal associates

10% Execution - Organic Initiative Execution: Lead and support cross-functional project teams to manage and execute high value initiatives, special projects and requests for Marketing and Business leaders

20% Projects - Manage online and offline marketing programs throughout the project lifecycle; including discovery and initial assessment, program definition, negotiation of key partnerships, development of creative, program launch, measurement and reporting that supports execution of the planning and activation process

60% Strategies - Strategy Formulation and Activation: Design and conduct analysis to evaluate customer and market landscapes, competitors, and current business strategies to build an enterprise brand strategy and channel communications plan consistent with our multi-channel marketing strategies

This position typically reports to Sr Manager, Audience Marketing

Travel Requirements:

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

A minimum of 5+ years' experience in marketing, communications, or media planning, either at another company or at a media/advertising agency

The ability to link business goals to communication strategies and creative concepts

A strong formal and informed advocate of brand communications strategies and tactics, particularly to internal stakeholders

A high interest in developments in technology and media that can affect brand communications, and the ability to communicate and advocate to all relevant brand constituencies how these developments can change the competitive and media landscape

Must be able to manage multiple internal and external partnerships and coalesce them into a united front supporting key brand initiatives

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.

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

Decision Quality

Customer Focus

Manages Conflict

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