Specialist, Growth Marketing - Display

Job Description:

WHO WE ARE:

Saks Global is the largest multi-brand luxury retailer in the world, comprising Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman and Saks OFF 5TH. Powered by our talented colleagues, we are redefining luxury shopping by offering each customer a personalized experience across our store network and e-commerce platforms. Through strong partnerships with the world’s most esteemed brands, cutting-edge technology and the industry’s most comprehensive luxury customer data, Saks Global is shaping the future of retail.

YOU WILL BE: 

As the Specialist, Growth Marketing - Display, you will own the strategy, execution, and optimization of our upper-funnel display advertising campaigns to drive brand awareness and business growth. Serving as the primary day-to-day lead for our external agencies and vendors, you will translate performance data into actionable insights, oversee creative development, and oversee the display budget from forecasting to billing. This is a highly collaborative role where you will partner with internal cross-functional teams—including Creative, E-commerce, Analytics, and Paid Social—to align display initiatives with overarching business goals and regularly share performance trends with leadership.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Drive and execute various upper-funnel display campaigns by defining the campaign objectives, identifying accurate audiences, and providing spend recommendations based on performance data

• Lead the creative briefing process and manage timely creative refreshes, track performance over time, identify best practices, and ensure all assets are delivered in time for campaign launch

• Analyze relevant performance metrics across campaigns (CTR, CPSV, CPM, ROAS, etc) to identify data-driven insights, proactively identify and synthesize trends or anomalies to better understand and drive overarching business performance

• Serve as the point of contact for our agency and vendors via email and in meetings, ensuring partner accountability and their understanding/alignment with business goals

• Identify and lead impactful optimizations to existing and new campaigns in close partnership with agency and vendors

• Assist in various ad hoc projects or workflows with relevant internal teams, including but not limited to Retail Media, Paid Social, and the broader display team

• Collaborate with multiple teams (e-commerce, analytics, creative, etc) to align display initiatives with broader business goals, regularly communicating performance updates, platform changes, and key learnings to leadership

• Support testing roadmap strategy, planning, and execution by staying ahead of emerging marketing trends and industry best practices and understanding overarching business priorities

• Oversee the Display advertising budget, managing pacing, forecasting, and the end-to-end billing process

WHAT YOU WILL BRING:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field (preferably Marketing, Economics, or Business Management)

• 2+ years of digital performance marketing experience at a media agency or retail company. Minimum 2 years of full time experience managing display/programmatic campaigns (tracking, planning, reporting)

• Highly analytical and comfortable with data sets, able to conduct analysis independently and clearly communicate results to stakeholder audiences at all levels, internal & external

• Experience with high-growth consumer companies, ideally retail or luxury e-commerce businesses

• Understanding of display DSPs  (e.g., DV360, The Trade Desk, etc.), capabilities and buying methods (Programmatic, PMP, direct IO)

• Strong business acumen with excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Experience in web analytics platforms (Adobe Analytics/Omniture/Tableau)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience using customer data platforms (CDPs, LiveRamp)

• Ability to translate multiple data inputs into insights and strategies

• Desire to proactively share learnings internally and externally

• Familiarity with marketing performance metrics (MTA, CPV, CTR, CPC, etc)

• Experimentation mindset and comfort with testing and learning

• Strong project management skills, juggling multiple projects and deadlines

• A positive, growth mindset - proactive, resourceful, curious

YOUR LIFE AND CAREER AT SAKS GLOBAL:

• Opportunity to work in a dynamic fast paced environment at a company experiencing growth and transformation 

• Exposure to rewarding career advancement opportunities across the largest multi-brand luxury retailer from retail to distribution, to digital or corporate 

• Comprehensive benefits package for all eligible full-time employees (including medical, vision and dental)

• An amazing employee discount

BENEFITS:

We offer the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, disability insurance, and a variety of additional voluntary benefits (such as critical illness, hospital and accident insurance). 

Saks Global is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with Saks Global and would like to request special assistance or an accommodation, please contact candidatesupport@saks.com.

Compensation for this role varies by geographic location. The listed range reflects multiple markets, including higher-cost areas. Actual starting pay will be determined based on work location, experience, and other job-related factors.