​​Promotional Print Program Manager​

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.
• Captures 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.

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