Job Description
As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!
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Weekly pay
Scheduling flexibility
Paid parental leave
Paid education assistance
Team member discount
Development programs for advancement and career growth
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The Brand Experience & Marketing Operations team ensures that brand strategy, category priorities, and marketing execution operate as one cohesive system across the organization. The team establishes the strategic frameworks, operational processes, and cross‑functional alignment required to deliver consistent, accurate, and customer‑centered marketing across all touchpoints.
The In-Store Experience team is responsible for creating a customer-focused, efficient shopping environment through the management of the overall look of Meijer stores through semi-permanent and weekly promotional signage. This includes, but is not limited to, maintaining communication with all stakeholders, managing workflows, timelines, and budgets in the development of all visual merchandising and promotional signage, as well as closely collaborating with key internal and external partners.
The Promotional Print Program Manager plays a pivotal role in orchestrating large-scale, cross-functional initiatives that shape the in-store customer experience through weekly promotional communication. This role is responsible for leading the end-to-end execution of promotional programs across enterprise-wide initiatives, ensuring alignment marketing strategy and operational timelines. This role is also responsible for effectively communicating with cross-functional partners, facilitating meetings throughout the visual signage development processes, and ensuring processes are being adhered to, while proactively identifying areas of improvement for the overall process.
While this role is an individual contributor, the Promotional Print Program Manager contributes to the In-Store Experience Squad within the Marketing Agile Train, comprised of VM Specialists, Designers, Copywriters and Proofreaders. This role must be adept at defining project scopes, setting timelines, securing approvals, and communicating details from key stakeholders across Merchandising & Marketing teams. This involves planning, assigning, scheduling, supporting and proactively facilitating projects through completion, as well as reporting on all incoming projects to leadership and key stakeholders.
The position requires close attention to promotional print signage project risks for facilitating resolution with input from key stakeholders. The Promotional Print Program Manager will work closely with internal and external agency partners and all levels of leadership. Ability to lead through influence and impact is critical.
What you’ll be Doing:
Partners across all levels of Marketing and Merchandising business partners at the onset of a project, and throughout, to understand the scope, allocate appropriate internal/external resources, and define a critical path forward for promotional signage.
Develops and maintains program roadmaps, aligning promotional merchandising initiatives with broader marketing and business goals. Anticipates resource needs and proactively mitigates risks.
Serves as the central point of contact for internal and external stakeholders. Facilitates alignment meetings, secures approvals, and ensures transparency through regular updates and reporting.
Identifies and implements process improvements to increase efficiency, reduce bottlenecks, and enhance collaboration across teams. Champions a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.
Manages significant promotional print signage annual budget of multi-millions of dollars. Requires close partnership with Finance and vendor partners (Gilson).
Participates in all daily In-Store Experience Merchandising Squad meetings, including Planning, Backlog Refinement & Stand-Ups.
Participates in In-Store Experience Squad during Marketing Train events, including PI Planning every 10 weeks.
Partners with Manager, In-Store Experience & Manager, Marketing Operations to increase effectiveness and efficiency by driving process improvements across the Marketing department.
Ensures that requested projects have necessary leadership approvals, prior to kick-off.
Coordinates the initial detail and information needed to start each project and assigns to appropriate Squad/team members.
Aids in organizing people, tasks, project timelines, production and resolving issues.
Successfully supports multiple projects at any given time.
Maintains proper documentation and files for reference and resource.
Defines and manages project risks with input from stakeholders, elevates risks and facilitates resolutions.
Owns monitoring and maintaining begin to end schedules for each project.
Owns and operates daily within promotional merchandising project management tools, including Microsoft’s Azure DevOps (VSTS), Ziflow and Miro.
Effectively communicates deadlines, volume and resource utilization as well as risks.
Develops relationships with agency and internal customers to earn respect and trust while managing large campaigns, and monitoring agency responsibilities.
This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position. May perform other duties as assigned or required.
What You’ll Bring With You:
Bachelor’s degree
3+ years of experience in marketing and/or project management.
Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to be an empathetic listener and effective communicator.
Able to work cross-functionally across business areas, with all levels of Meijer team members, project leads, leadership and vendor partners.
Familiarity with Lean-Agile principles.
Professionally represents the Marketing department internally and externally.
Strong planning and tracking/controlling skills.
Ability to think critically, plan long-term and react short-term, and juggle multiple tasks.
Exceptional organizational skills and ability to manage details.
Ability to lead peers, including through ambiguous situations.
Strong customer service orientation and skills.
Knowledge of Corporate financial and fiscal year budgeting processes.
Excellent written, verbal and oral communication skills.
Ability to work with Microsoft Office Tools.
Willing to travel to various store locations, as needed.