Walmart

(USA) Senior Manager, Creative Strategy

Walmart$108K — $216K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in Creative Strategy and Comms Planning, either in-house or at an agency
  • Strong skills in articulating clear customer insights for creative briefs
  • Experience collaborating with creative teams from concept to production
  • Proficient in analyzing qualitative and quantitative research data
  • Ability to connect business goals with brand objectives and KPIs
  • Deep knowledge of the media landscape
  • Excellent presentation and narrative building skills to influence and sell ideas

Responsibilities

  • Develop comprehensive creative briefs for marketing campaigns
  • Work collaboratively with creative teams throughout the creative process
  • Analyze key learnings from research and past campaign performance
  • Create audience-first communications plans across various media channels
  • Build trusting relationships with internal teams and partners
  • Challenge conventional approaches to enhance creative connections and actions
  • Foster curiosity by re-framing challenges to generate innovative ideas

Benefits

  • Health coverage including medical, vision, and dental
  • 401(k) plan and company-paid life insurance
  • Comprehensive paid time off including sick leave and parental leave
  • Education benefits covering tuition, books, and fees for various programs
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage
  • Company discounts and added support for military personnel
  • Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
Full Job Description
Position Summary...

What you'll do...
Role summary:

You are an experienced strategist adept at translating customer insights into actionable briefs while helping to create, shape and sell effective creative platforms. You enjoy collaborating cross-functionally and aren't afraid to roll up your sleeves and get in at every stage of the creative process. In this role you will work across a variety of retail verticals to develop insightful strategies that lead to effective creative campaigns. You will be in a highly collaborative function, partnering closely with internal and partner teams to ensure our creative ideas are informed by, and resonate with, our customers.
What you'll do:
  • Creative brief development for campaigns spanning the entire marketing funnel
  • Collaboration with creative teams throughout the creative process from brief, to concepting, and into production
  • Distillation of key learnings from qualitative and quantitative research, and past campaign performance in partnership with the Consumer Insights team
  • Development of audience-first communications plans that align messages, media, and audiences across paid, owned, earned, and shared.
  • Establish strong, collaborative, trusting relationships across Walmart Creative and our partners.
  • Challenge the status quo in the spirit of delivering creative that drives connection and action.
  • Be relentlessly curious. Re-frame existing challenges in a new light that creates whitespace for ideas and activations.

What you'll bring:
  • 7+ years of Creative Strategy and Comms Planning experience at an in-house or external creative agency
  • Proven track record of articulating clear and compelling customer insights in tight creative briefs
  • Experience working closely with creative teams from briefing, conception and into production
  • Skilled researcher and analyst comfortable with a variety of quantitative and qualitative inputs and identifying what is most relevant
  • Possess a keen understanding of how to connect business goals and brand objectives to clear KPIs
  • Deep understanding of and experience with the media landscape
  • Excellent deck/narrative building and presentation skills to educate, influence buy-in, and sell through ideas


At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.

For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.

Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

The annual salary range for this position is $108,000.00 - $216,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

- Stock








Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Design, Marketing, Creative Writing, Advertising, Fine Arts, or related field and 3 years' experience in editorial content management or related field OR 5 years' experience in editorial content management or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Digital Content Management, Editorial, Retail Management, Supervising Associates, WE-Working for or withCreative Agencies

Primary Location...

5404 Jandy Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90066-7006, United States of America

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2,300 employees
Market Cap
$387 billion
Industry
Net Income
$13.5 billion
Founded
1962
5 Year Trend
+3.3%
Revenue
$559.1 billion
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