Senior Associate, Commerce & Retail Media

Job Description: The Commerce & Retail Media team at dentsu leads strategy, activation, and optimization for a large Retail Media client. We are looking for a dynamic, organized, and highly collaborative teammate to join our growing team. This role will report to the Senior Manager, Commerce & Retail Media. As a Senior Associate, you will play a critical role in supporting the planning, execution, and ongoing management of retail media campaigns and supplier partnerships. Working closely with Senior Account Leads, you will help ensure campaigns are delivered accurately, on time, and with a high level of quality while balancing multiple priorities across a dynamic book of business. Responsibilities Day-to-day campaign execution, including campaign setup, QA, pacing, reporting, and ongoing optimization management across internal teams and external partners. Manage multiple projects simultaneously while effectively prioritizing competing deadlines and business needs. Coordinate across Account Management, Sales, Planning, Analytics, Activation, and supplier teams to ensure seamless execution and communication. Maintain detailed account documentation, project plans, meeting notes, status trackers, and follow-up actions to ensure alignment across stakeholders. Monitor campaign performance and pacing, proactively identifying risks, issues, or opportunities and escalating as needed and maintaining monthly budgets. Assist in the development of performance recaps, optimization recommendations, and client-facing materials. Support quality assurance across all campaign elements including setup, launch readiness, reporting accuracy, and post-launch validation. Build and maintain campaign trackers, implementation documents, reporting templates, and other operational resources as needed. Partner closely with Senior Account Leads to ensure supplier requests, campaign deliverables, and business priorities are executed accurately and efficiently. Contribute to process improvement initiatives, training materials, documentation, and best practice development. Support ad hoc projects and operational initiatives in a fast-paced and evolving environment. Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, Analytics, or a related field preferred. 3+ years of digital performance marketing experience in eCommerce, retail media, search, programmatic, or a related field. 1+ years of experience managing large-scale eCommerce or Retail Media campaigns preferred. Experience managing search advertising campaigns within retail media environments (Amazon Ads, Walmart Connect, Instacart, Kroger Precision Marketing or similar search platforms). Strong project management and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously. Demonstrated ability to balance competing deadlines while maintaining a high level of accuracy and attention to detail. Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to coordinate effectively across multiple stakeholders and teams. Experience developing campaign recaps, performance reports, and optimization recommendations. Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; experience with formulas, pivot tables, and large datasets preferred. Ability to proactively identify issues, develop solutions, and drive follow-through. Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and evolving business needs. Strong problem-solving skills and a solutions-oriented mindset. Ability to work independently while also collaborating effectively within a team environment. Enthusiasm for retail media, eCommerce, and the evolving digital advertising landscape. The annual salary range for this position is $54,000 -$80,000. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law. Benefits available with this position include: Medical, vision, and dental insurance, Life insurance, Short-term and long-term disability insurance, 401k, Flexible paid time off, At least 15 paid holidays per year, Paid sick and safe leave, and Paid parental leave. Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies. For further details regarding Dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com . To begin the application process, please click on the "Apply" button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps. At dentsu, we believe great work happens when we're connected. Our way of working combines flexibility with in-person collaboration to spark ideas and strengthen our teams. Employees who live within a commutable distance of one of our hub offices, currently located in Chicago, metro Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York City, are required and expected to work from the office three days per week (two days per week for employees based in Los Angeles). Dentsu may designate other Hub offices at any time. Those who live outside a commutable range may be designated as remote, depending on the role and business needs. Regardless of your work location, we expect our employees to be flexible to meet the needs of our Company and clients, which may include attendance in an office. #LI-AD2 #LI-Hybrid Location: New York Brand: Iprospect Time Type: Full time Contract Type: Permanent Dentsu is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. 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