Senior Manager - Marketing Strategy

When you join Verizon, you want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work, and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always.

About the role

The Senior Manager - Marketing Strategy is a highly analytical and strategic role focused on decreasing churn within the Verizon Business Group through data-driven strategies and targeted offers/actions. This individual will be responsible for developing marketing programs that incentivize retention and loyalty, as well as building the business case to justify the program and obtain financial approvals. The VBG Base Management and Defend teams will look to this individual to proactively drive bottom-up data-driven recommendations as well as adapt to top-down requirements from executive leadership.

This individual will provide strategic analytical support to marketing/sales leadership, program directors, and marketing campaign managers to drive base strategies by sharing data insights, deep-dives, and accelerating action plans aligned with marketing opportunities. In addition, this role will be responsible for understanding Sales/Field feedback and conducting problem-solving analysis to aid CRM communications and strategy building. This role will require developing executive-level presentations and crafting compelling slides to communicate strategies and results. Additionally, this role will act as a conduit to adjacent teams including Business Intelligence, Finance, Martech for all segments including Business Markets, GE, and Public Sector.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage customer retention and churn reduction strategies.
• Develop business cases to support investment in retention and churn reduction initiatives.
• Track and report on the performance of retention campaigns and initiatives.
• Lead strategic analysis and insight generation to support retention strategies, and interface directly with Sales executive leadership to represent the VBG Marketing team.
• Utilize customer analytics to develop a deeper understanding of the customer’s profile, point-of-contact engagement, and activity across online and offline channels. Use findings to tie behavioral data to inform audience pulls to optimize our communication strategies.
• Analyze base performance by distilling complex data sets into concise and actionable data insights. This work will be used to further refine marketing campaign strategies to drive greater value and combat churn within the VBG customer base.
• Package fact-based recommendations clearly and “tell a story” with data to leadership.
• Act as a conduit to cross-functional teams, including Business Intelligence, Martech, and Finance, to align on retention goals and strategies.

Requirements

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
• Experience with marketing analytics and driving actionable insights.
• Experience with data visualization and communicating strategies and outcomes to stakeholders at all levels.

Qualifications

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• A Master's degree in Marketing, Business Administration (MBA), Communications, or a related field.
• Telecom or device marketing experience.
• Experience analyzing large datasets to derive actionable insights. Familiarity with tools such as Google Analytics, CRM software, or data visualization platforms like Tableau.
• Understanding of direct marketing and Sales best practices across key tactics (Email, Direct Mail, SMS, Digital, Outbound, etc).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Schedule

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Scheduled weekly hours are 40.

Pay

The annual salary range for this full-time position is:

• $105,000.00 - $201,000.00 (general locations)
• $115,500.00 - $201,000.00 (Illinois, Maryland, New York locations)

This is an incentive-based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, compensation will be adjusted to reflect hours.

Benefits

• Health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance, and group home & auto insurance.
• Matched 401(k) savings plan.
• Up to 8 company-paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year.
• Paid parental leave, adoption assistance, and tuition assistance.
• Opportunity to receive premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, and allowances.
• Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service.