Manager, Commerce (Programmatic)

PHDUS PHD Media LLC; United States; On-site; USD 50,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom Group in New York is seeking a senior Retail Media Manager to plan, optimize, and measure retailer paid media campaigns across Amazon, Walmart, and other networks. You will drive cross-functional collaboration and growth, shaping performance narratives for clients.

The role emphasizes strategic leadership, mentoring junior staff, and operating in an agile environment, with a strong focus on confidentiality and professional integrity. In-office collaboration is regularly required.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of retail paid media experience (Amazon DSP, Walmart DSP, Kroger, Target, etc.)
• Hands-on planning, creating, managing, and measuring programmatic campaigns.
• Experience managing large enterprise client engagements and budgets.
• Proven track record of growth, retention, and exceeding stakeholder expectations.
• Ability to communicate strategy in calls and reviews.
• Comfortable in agile environments and handling ambiguity.
• Team player, curious, ambitious.

Responsibilities

• Plan, create, optimize, and measure retailer paid media activation activities for clients on eRetailer sites and networks.
• Partner with internal and client teams to provide connected commerce capabilities.
• Manage campaigns to meet performance goals including advertising efficiency, profitability, growth, and launches.
• Ensure client budgets are properly paced and not exceeded.
• Help define best practices and drive growth of retailer paid search services.
• Support training and capability development across teams.
• Mentor junior staff and contribute to leadership as the role grows.

Skills

Retail paid media

Amazon DSP

Walmart DSP

Campaign management

Client communication

Job description

Agency: PHd Job Function: Media Job Subfunction: Performance Media Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Plan, create, optimize, and measure retailer paid media activation activities for clients on eRetailer sites and networks including Amazon, Walmart, Instacart, Kroger, Target, Albertson’s, and others.
• Partner with internal and client teams to provide best in class connected commerce capabilities (retail media, shopper marketing, operations, content, analytics, etc.).
• Manage campaigns to meet and exceed a wide range of specified performance goals such as advertising efficiency, profitability, growth, new product launches, and more.
• Ensure client budgets are properly paced, met, and not exceeded.
• Remain at the forefront of the retail media industry, helping to define best practices, identify new opportunities, and actively contribute to our body of knowledge and expertise across the company.
• Help guide development of retailer paid search services and drive growth of this practice, partnering with business development and account teams to pitch and win new business.
• Support various teams with proactive thought leadership and content to help internal training and capability development.
• Manage and mentor several junior staff members in addition to other responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications and skills required:
• At least 3-5 years of retail paid media experience in (Amazon DSP, Walmart DSP, Kroger/KPM PMP, Target/Roundel, TTD, etc.) with the ability to communicate the value of a full-funnel media approach to clients.
• Direct, hands‑on experience with planning, creating, managing, and measuring programmatic retail media campaigns.
• Skilled at planning and managing enterprise level client engagements and budgets.
• Proven track record of flawless execution, driving growth, client retention, and exceeding various stakeholder expectations.
• Ability to engage with clients in, for example, campaign strategy setting discussions, weekly performance calls, campaign reviews, etc.
• Clear and concise communicator with the ability to create and present compelling performance narratives across a wide set of data.
• Deep understanding of retail readiness as well as additional paid and organic drivers of success (operations, promotions, content, programmatic, off‑platform media, etc.)
• Ability to write a campaign strategy document and a campaign review document.
• The ideal candidate can operate at a very high level as an individual contributor yet is on the cusp of leading a team. Team leadership is a near term growth opportunity for this role.
• Able to work in an agile environment.
• Able and comfortable dealing with ambiguity to make decisions and take action for the betterment of our clients.
• Team player. Curious. Ambitious.
• Individual must also maintain an extreme level of confidentiality in dealing with all information that flows through the office.
• Bonus experience (nice to have):
• Understanding of how to plan and measure off‑platform media activations driving to eRetailer sites.
• Experience with planning and executing Shopper Marketing programs and/or coordinating with Shopper Marketing teams.
• Working or advanced knowledge of Amazon Marketing Cloud and other various data clean rooms

New York: $50,000.00-$95,000.00

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