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Job Description
At Sam’s Club, we are member obsessed. We look to add value to the Sam’s Club membership, and we partner with suppliers to bring unique and exciting values to our members. Sam’s Club Member Access Platform (MAP) is the nexus of the Supplier -Marketer- Merchant partnership and are responsible for delivering our suppliers (advertisers) impactful omnichannel member experiences that are married with measurable insights.
This is a unique opportunity to join a fast growing, highly visible team within Sam’s Club. We believe all digital advertising can be targeted and accountable – and we have Sam’s Club first party membership sales data to prove it. MAP wins when suppliers invest in digital media to drive growth; Sam’s and our supplier partners win when your digital expertise helps sell more goods online and offline. Growth in our digital advertising business is key to fueling Sam’s overall growth strategy.
As a Search Performance Specialist (Analyst), you will help analyze and optimize advertisers’ search campaigns so that they can meet their marketing objectives, drive revenue growth, and foster product improvements. You will work closely with the Sales team, Account Management, Campaign Management, Onboarding & Support team, and API/Ad Tech partners and be responsible for developing and recommending strategies, managing budgets and bids, optimizing account configuration, and targeting, and reporting/insights.
The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of the media/retail media industry and a background in the paid search landscape. This is an analytical and revenue focused role solely dedicated to the search product.
Responsibilities:
- Plan, manage, and execute campaigns, including but not limited to account setup, strategy development, organization, and management while ensuring that recommendations and decisions are consistent with client objectives.
- Analyze and optimize advertisers’ search campaigns to meet their marketing objectives, drive revenue growth, and foster product improvements
- Own daily monitoring of assigned advertisers and/or book of business, delivery of weekly/monthly/ad-hoc reporting.
- Identifies domain, brand, category, and campaign trends to provide analysis to support incremental asks from our suppliers to grow and stabilize investment.
- Partner with cross-functional team on ensuring data cleanliness and data availability for reporting dashboard
- Uses Tableau and other internal dashboards to analyze opportunities, identify patterns and implement proactive solutions including improvements across MAP Search Platform UI, tools, and processes.
- Identifies growth opportunities for advertisers search investments and proposes solutions to improve ROI.
Qualifications:
- 2-3+ years’ work experience in advertising industry with focus in paid search, retail search and/or eCommerce.
- Bachelor’s degree in business or related field.
- Comfortable with direct client interaction, including presentations, with the ability to translate technical concepts into client-friendly language
- Experienced in developing media strategies based on data, insights, and analytics.
- Knowledge of keyword bidding strategies, budget cap management and optimization tactics
- Experience in Google Ads, Bing, Yahoo!, Amazon, Co-op Advertising and all paid search terminology and key tools (e.g., AdWords, AdCenter, Retail Search, etc.).
- Strong analytic and quantitative skills that enable you to use data to develop, validate and measure search campaigns.
- Experience developing or overseeing quantitative analysis and delivering actionable insights.
- Has ability to work at all levels with an eye for detail to achieve quality & process goals, actively translates Walmart’s core values into everyday practices.
- Strong communication/interpersonal skills and able to build relationships and influence cross-functionally.
- Understanding of customer experience, listening to customers’ voice, and working backwards to improve business process and operations.
At Sam’s Club, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices .
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam’s Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor’s degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart at https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J .
The annual salary range for this position is $78,750.00-$131,250.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
– Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)
– Stock equity incentives
Minimum Qualifications…
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Analytics, Statistics, or related field and 1 year’s experience in data analytics, project management, business, or related area OR 3 years’ experience in data analytics, project management, business, or related area.
Preferred Qualifications…
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Statistical Programming Language
Masters: Analytics, Masters: Business
Project Management – Project Management Professional – Certification, Six Sigma – Certification Primary Location… 2628 NE UNIVERSITY VILLAGE ST, SEATTLE, WA 98105-5023, United States of America
About Sam’s Club
Sam Walton opened the first Sam’s Club in 1983 to meet a growing need among customers who wanted to buy merchandise in bulk. Since then, Sam’s Club has grown rapidly, opening more than 600 clubs in the U.S. and 100 clubs internationally. By offering affordable, wholesale merchandise to members, Sam’s Club helps make saving simple for families and small business owners.
Sam’s Club employs about 110,000 associates in the U.S. The average club is 134,000 square feet and offers bulk groceries and general merchandise. Most clubs also have specialty services, such as a pharmacy, an optical department, a photo center, or a tire and battery center.
Sam’s Club is an Equal Opportunity Employer- By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.
“The people you work with are ready to help without hesitation to make sure you succeed, it’s just part of the culture.” – Shelby, Project Analyst
All the benefits you need for you and your family
- Multiple health plan options, including vision & dental plans for you & dependents
- Free Membership and discounts in fresh produce
- Financial benefits including 401(k), stock purchase plans, life insurance and more
- Paid education assistance with college degrees through our Live Better U program
- Parental Leave
- Pay during military service
- Paid time off – to include vacation, sick leave and parental leave
- Short-term and long-term disability for when you can’t work because of injury, illness, or childbirth
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.com/Benefits.
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