VP, Experience Planning, Media, Digital & Data Strategy

Join our Marketing Team at Helen of Troy as our VP, Experience Planning, Media, Digital & Data Strategy (hybrid work onsite and from home), and make an immediate impact on our trusted brands, including our 9 leadership brands: OXO, Hydro Flask, Osprey, Honeywell, PUR, Braun, Vicks, Hot Tools, Drybar. Together, we build innovative and useful products that elevate people's lives everywhere every day!
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Hybrid schedule: Our office teams have transitioned back to working in the office on a regular hybrid schedule. At present, team members are expected in the office an average of three (3) days a week. Decisions regarding any changes to our hybrid schedule will be communicated.
Work Location: Ideal candidates will reside in the New York, New Jersey, or Boston, Massachusetts area.
What you will be doing:
The VP, Experience Planning, Media, Digital & Data Strategy will oversee the experience and digital strategy teams responsible for strategic oversight of Media AOR and ensuring experience plans and digital activation deliver brand growth expectations and YOY ROAS improvements. This leader will bring robust media and digital experience, ensuring brand experience plans fully leverage brand foundation work (e.g., growth audiences), consumer journeys for full-funnel Experience Planning, and robust data strategies for digital activation. Additionally, oversee the Media AOR relationship along with annual media spending.

• Accountable for creation of Experience Planning discipline and oversight of Experience Planning and Digital Strategy team
• Oversee and lead the development of optimized strategies of the brands across all channels, including national media, retailer media, and DTC, to ensure strategies and plans that clearly reflect category/brand business objectives and drive sales/market share growth
• Serve as a motivational leader for other regional media leads across the globe and contributor to Global Media Guardrails
• Lead oversight of Media AOR, including quarterly business review meetings
• Develop U.S. media principles and educate marketing organization on principles to ensure experience plans leverage best practices
• Develop a preferred list of partners and ensure partners are briefed on our growth tenets (e.g. JBP)
• Influence and define the right KPIs by campaign type and channel, analyze results, and give advice for further optimization
• Identify, manage, share, and introduce best media practices and lessons, including digital media, across the regions
• Provide thought leadership on media landscape evolution to stay at the forefront of media innovations

Skills needed to be successful in this role:

• Strong passion and empathy for consumers
• Strategic and analytical thinking
• Bias for action, driving strategic outcomes through influence, collaboration & organizational savviness

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 15+ years of professional experience with relevant consumer insight background
• Prior experience in a Senior Director or VP level role
• Experience in consumer packaged goods industry
• Experienced with multiple types of customer research, including positioning, brand architecture, creative/messaging development and evaluation, innovation ideation, development, and evaluation, claims testing, segmentation, omni-channel consumer journey's, path to purchase, brand health tracking, etc.
• Authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA

In New York City, the standard base pay range for this role is $191,154.83 to $318,960.12 annually. This base pay range is specific to New York City and may not be applicable to other locations. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to location, experience, skill level, and performance. The range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for employees.
Benefits: Salary + Bonus, Healthcare, Dental, Vision, Paid Holidays, Paid Parental Leave, 401(k) with company match, Basic Life Insurance, Short Term Disability (STD), Long Term Disability (LTD), Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Charitable (volunteer) Leave, and Educational Assistance.
Wondering if you should apply? Helen of Troy welcomes people as diverse as our brands. Have the confidence to come as who you are because your point of view, skills, and experience will make us stronger. If you're eager to share new ideas and try new things, we want to hear from you.
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For more information about Helen of Troy, visit www.helenoftroy.com. You can also find us on LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Helen of Troy is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to developing a diverse workforce and cultivating an inclusive environment. We value diversity and believe that we are strengthened by the differences in our experiences, thinking, culture and background. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or any protected basis.
We will provide individuals with disabilities reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application process. If you would like to request an accommodation, please contact Human Resources at (915) 225-8000.
Incorporated in 1968, Helen of Troy has grown into a leading global consumer products company with career opportunities in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. We offer creative solutions for our customers through a diversified portfolio of well-recognized and widely trusted brands, including OXO®, Hydro Flask®, Osprey®, Honeywell®, PUR®, Braun®, Vicks®, Hot Tools®, Drybar®. Most of these brands rank #1 or #2 in their respective categories.
We boldly bring brands into our family, where we nurture what makes them great. We collaborate internally and externally, always striving to provide the consumer-centric innovation, operational excellence, scale, global reach, and stellar shared services to make them soar.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required of personnel so classified. Management retains the right to add or to change duties of the position at any time.