Group Account Director, Retail Excellence

Omnicom Production; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Group Account Director to lead retail excellence initiatives. This role involves leveraging advanced analytics and insights to drive category leadership and growth. The ideal candidate will collaborate across teams to optimize data management and ensure scalable brand solutions. In this hybrid position, you will work with a diverse range of clients and projects, fostering a community that values creativity and collaboration. If you have a passion for consumer products and a drive for innovation, this opportunity could be your next big step.

Qualifications

• 7 to 10 years of experience in category or customer strategy.
• Extensive knowledge of omni retail customer store operations.
• Strong use of data for optimization.

Responsibilities

• Execute capability roadmap for Category Visioning and Solutions.
• Leverage consumer insights to support category solutions.
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders for brand solutions.

Skills

Consumer Products industry experience

Category strategy

Category insights & analytics

Retail execution tactics

Budgeting and forecasting

Interpersonal skills

Data optimization

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What We Do

We design, implement and optimize breakthrough content production models, delivering simplicity, efficiencies, and the connectivity and consistency of content that powers brand growth

Our flexible models combine content experience, production solutions, and global delivery.

We bring ideas to life in all mediums, all channels and all stages of the production process. We multiply and lead with innovative technologies including real-time 3D, virtual production, automation and generative content.

Who We Are

Born from the leading creative and media agencies and engineered for a data-driven world, we provide scaled content solutions, industry-leading content development, production excellence and unmatched global delivery capabilities.

You won’t find a more diverse set of clients or projects. We work in every medium in every market. You’ll deepen your expertise while stretching in new directions—with support.

We believe building a community that fosters growth, belonging, and connection is as rewarding as the work itself.

Come for the work. Stay for the people.

Reports to: Group Client Lead

Location: NYC- This is a hybrid role and requires 3 days a week in office

The Salary Range for this role is $150,000 - $175,000

About This Role

The Group Account Director, Retail Excellence will employ advanced analytics and insights to support and deploy global category leadership and growth initiatives.

This individual will provide inputs to support the global categories, shopper insights, and analytics roadmap, with focus on optimizing global to local data management, shopper insight delivery, and building category leading, consistent brand execution framework fit for use across multiple regions. The role is responsible for collaborating across multiple stakeholder groups to ensure the categories and brand solutions are scalable and deliver a clear vision.

Responsibilities

• Executes capability roadmap and playbook for Category Visioning and Category Solutions across all categories
• Leverages consumer and customers insight and deep understanding of brand priorities to support category solutions and multi-brand activation opportunities
• Partners with category leads across priority markets on deployment of category vision, and transcreation of category development and brand growth initiatives for local market and retailer activation
• Supports work on category solutions and activation across all categories
• Partners with the global brand development team to ensure external and customer perspective are fully embedded in commercial initiatives and brand activations
• Supports development of channel strategy and customer priorities for brand development team and ensure customer requirements are embedded in new product development, brand growth initiatives, and overall go to market plan
• Partners with cross-functional team including marketing, strategy, and creative within the assigned brand development team to develop shopper toolkits, new product launch playbooks, and RGM guidelines/playbooks for the assigned global brand development team
  
  

Requirements

• 7 to 10 years of Consumer Products industry experience in category or customer strategy, category insights & analytics, and/or shopper insights & analytics
• Extensive knowledge of omni retail customer store operations, structure, strategy, and retail execution tactics
• Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen
• Direct customer sales experience in CPG is preferred
• Global or multi-regional experience is preferred
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills, with internal teams and external clients
• Drive to deliver innovation and effective application of technologies
• Ability to drive high volume projects
• Curiosity for continued improvement
• Strong use of data for optimization (effectiveness and efficiency)
• Ability to handle high pressure situations
• Willingness to wear many hats while giving team members autonomy and support
  
  

We are committed to fostering an environment ripe for creativity and variety of thought and it starts with you.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Business Development

• Industries

  Advertising Services

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