Big Lots

VP, Marketing

Big Lots • $120K — $180K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 10+ years of Marketing experience, preferably in retail.
  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, or Advertising preferred.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to multitask effectively.
  • Experience leading creative and digital marketing initiatives.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

  • Drive profitable growth through comprehensive retail marketing management.
  • Ensure brand consistency across all creative executions and store touchpoints.
  • Develop and implement customer acquisition strategies using various marketing channels.
  • Maximize productivity of promotional materials through targeted collaborations with merchants.
  • Plan and manage the marketing calendar to align with budget constraints.
  • Mentor and develop team members to build a strong talent pipeline.
  • Facilitate communication and alignment across cross-functional teams for marketing initiatives.
  • Analyze marketing performance metrics to refine and improve strategies.

Benefits

  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams including Merchants and Finance.
  • Opportunities for team member development and mentorship.
  • Engagement with data-driven marketing strategies to enhance customer retention.
Full Job Description
Position Summary

The Vice President of Marketing is responsible for leading and executing comprehensive customer acquisition strategies across print, paid media, email, and personalized marketing channels. This role drives growth by developing integrated, data-driven campaigns that attract, engage, and convert customers while aligning closely with overall business objectives. The VP will provide strategic leadership, oversee campaign execution and optimization, and partner cross-functionally to ensure marketing initiatives deliver measurable results and long-term value.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Drive profitable growth by providing direction and management for all retail marketing. Leverages digital campaigns, email, circulars, signage and other mediums.
• Ensure all creative executions support brand positioning, standards and are consistent across print / store touchpoints.
• Leads customer acquisition marketing strategies through print, paid media, email, and customer personalization, deploying these strategies with a cohesive approach that drives customer growth and retention.
• Maximize circular productivity via efficient targeting, partnering with merchants on offers, planning, finance and continual testing.
• Plans and executes marketing calendar, including print and event cadence to meet budgetary guidelines. This area is responsible for overall budget and forecasting across the marketing department.
• Teach, motivate and mentor direct report and teams to encourage development and growth. Ensure a strong bench for success planning.
• Work collaboratively with Merchants, Marketing, Finance and Legal; this position is a communications hub to ensure all teams are informed of, and are aligned to all key print, planning and social media.
• Drive the team to understand personalization through research, robust testing, partnering with outside partners.
• Analyzes marketing program and business results to appropriately assess the effectiveness of marketing plans and makes recommendations to improve plan execution.
• Maintain and communicate all ad reporting, including ad recaps, quarterly recaps, event recaps and ad hoc basket and attachment analysis.
• Responsible for media / event planning for all grand openings and transitions for store closings.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Minimum 10+ years of Marketing experience required. Retail experience preferred.
• BA/BS Marketing, Business, or Advertising is preferred.
• Excellent communication skills. Must be highly organized, a self-starter and have strong ability to multitask.
• Must thrive in a collaborative, fast paced environment.
• Must be proficient at leading creative, digital, and financial components of the business.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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About Big Lots

Big Lots Stores, Inc. is an American retail company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio with over 1,400 stores in 47 states.
Learn more about Big Lots
Size
10,500 employees
Market Cap
$405.3 million
Industry
Net Income
$629.1 million
Founded
1967
5 Year Trend
+3.4%
Revenue
$6.1 billion
NASDAQ

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