Partner & Category Marketing Manager

Marketing Manager

Best Buy Ads is a retail media business with relationships as dynamic and data rich as consumer tech itself. With Best Buy Ads, our advertising partners can reach customers in the moments their brand matters most. Our audiences aren't mindlessly filling carts. We're with them as they learn, imagine, troubleshoot, try, buy, compare, and use. With Best Buy Ads, our clients are right there too. We help brands meet their goals with access to our audiences, inventory, and breadth of multi-channel solutions. Advertising with us is more than brand safe, it's brand building. Join our team on a different kind of journey.

As a Marketing Manager, you will set the vision and develop the marketing strategy for a specific business and set of partners to unlock both category growth & advertising revenue through a unique blend of offerings and high-value audiences. The marketing strategy will keep a lens on total company and macro industry trends while developing new initiatives to engage customers.

This person will have a proven track record of effectively communicating the value proposition of key offerings, delivering on goals, and communicating effectively with executive-level vendors and internal leaders. The Marketing Manager works cross-functionally with internal and external partners to deliver strategic campaigns and thoughtful marketing solutions. You are a strong leader and may have direct reports. This position will report to the Director or Sr. Manager of Partner & Category Marketing.

This role is hybrid, which means you will work some days at our corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota, and some days virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.

What You'll Do

• Evangelizing Best Buy Ads capabilities and purpose to drive business growth
• Effectively communicate Best Buy Ads value proposition to inspire partners to pursue new product offerings
• Develop and deliver a clear marketing strategy for business growth
• Partner on customer insights and shopping behaviors while championing the customer journey with your team and your brand partners
• Lead large campaign moments that drive business for your categories
• Advise and guide partners internally & externally with a marketing POV
• Lead and manage large, strategic partner relationships
• Collaborate with internal teams to provide partner insights and strategies
• Forecast monthly, quarterly, and annual revenue targets and expense to your leader on a timely basis
• Effectively manage your business trends and action plans
• Attract, recruit, train and retain exceptional talent by developing career plans with team members

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive experience in Retail/Media/Marketing/Sales area
• Deep knowledge of digital media, online marketing technology and its competitive landscape
• Experience developing emerging talent or has shown exceptional leadership behaviors

What's In It For You

We're committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.

• Competitive pay and PTO package
• Generous employee discount
• Physical and mental well-being support
• Robust benefit package

About Us

As part of the Best Buy team, you'll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers' homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We're committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™ Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.