Job Description

Provide strategic leadership for enterprise-wide marketing initiatives, setting direction for critical business strategies that align with company and customer objectives. Partner with Senior Marketing Strategists to develop and activate the annual marketing strategy, leading the creation of integrated plans executed consistently across all channel partners. Collaborate closely with key business stakeholders to ensure marketing strategies support total company goals and division-specific opportunities while protecting the customer experience and broader business priorities. Lead leadership alignment and support end-to-end marketing campaign execution, including driving research to inform briefs and coordinating internal and external marketing partners. Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the enterprise integrated marketing content calendar and applies deep knowledge of business, customer, and market-specific activations to optimize strategies and deliver measurable results. Engage directly with business and divisional teams to support go-to-market strategies, address customer needs, and effectively leverage enterprise marketing plans and supplemental solutions. Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

• Represent initiatives to senior leadership across various functions (merchandising, tech, operations, analytics, etc.), owning communications strategy alignment meetings, brief consultations and marketing
• Engage in collaboration across agency partners and cross-functional internal partners to ensure business-specific elements of the marketing strategy are well understood and adopted across the various interdependent customer-facing comms channel leaders
• Partner with analytics team to create and implement measurement plans; monitor and socialize performance results up to Marketing Strategy leadership and business partners; demonstrate keen ability to leverage tools to generate insights and understand and analyze results to assess/calculate risk and opportunity costs to drive decisions that deliver against consumer needs and business metrics, including growing incremental trips, sales, brand awareness/equity, ROI and CPA
• Stay abreast of industry best practices and competitive business landscape to proactively improve marketing plans
• Demonstrate thorough knowledge of the integrated marketing content calendar, encompassing all campaigns, as well as strong leadership and insight into any marketing support that influences business and customer objectives.
• Collaborate, review and consult on briefs for campaign creative and tactics ensuring for on-strategy execution
• Provide divisional support and collaboration, support engagement with a division CCM or leadership to better understand a division’s opportunities, customer, business go-to-market strategy and ability to leverage enterprise marketing plans and supplementary solutions to support the divisions
• Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

Minimum

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, communications or related field
• 8+ years of experience in marketing roles such as marketing plan lead, marketing manager, brand manager, or senior brand manager
• Proven ability to set and operationalize enterprise-level marketing strategies that align with company and divisional goals
• Strong go-to-market planning skills across multiple business units and markets
• Exceptional communication; crisp storytelling using data to drive decisions
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and initiatives in a fast-paced environment while maintaining attention to detail

Desired

• Master’s degree
• Retail/grocery or omnichannel commerce experience; loyalty/CRM or shopper marketing exposure
• Experience supporting multi ‑division enterprises and localized marketing

From one tiny Cincinnati grocery store more than a century ago, we’ve grown into what today is the nation’s largest grocer with nearly 2,800 stores in 35 states operating under 28 different names. As America’s grocer, we take pride in bringing diverse teams with a passion for food and people together with one common purpose: To Feed the Human Spirit. With a history of innovation, we work tirelessly to create amazing experiences for our customers, communities AND each other, with food at the heart of it all.
Here, people matter. That’s why we strive to provide the ingredients you need to create your own recipe for success at work and in life. We help feed your future by providing the value and care you need to grow. If you’re caring, purpose-driven and hungry to learn, your potential is unlimited.
Whether you’re seeking a part-time position or a new career path, we’ve got a fresh opportunity for you. Apply today to become part of our Kroger family!

What you’ll receive from us:

The Kroger Family of Companies offers comprehensive benefits to support your Associate Well-Being, including Physical, Emotional, Financial and more. We'll help you thrive, with access to:

• A wide range of healthcare coverage, including affordable, comprehensive medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage, through company plans or collective bargaining agreement plans.
• Flexible scheduling in full- and part-time roles with paid time off, including holiday and sick pay based on eligibility and length of service.
• Emotional and financial support with free counseling through our Employee Assistance Program and free, confidential financial tools and coaching with Goldman Sachs Ayco.
• Valuable associate discounts on purchases, including food, travel, technology and so much more.
• Up to $21,000 in tuition reimbursement over your career, through our industry-leading Continuing Education program.
• Vast potential for growth, through an abundance of industry-leading training programs and diverse career pathways.

For more information about benefits and eligibility, please visit our Benefits Page!