About the Role
The Media E-Commerce Director is responsible for driving online sales growth by integrating media strategies with e-commerce initiatives. This role oversees the planning, execution, and optimization of media campaigns across digital platforms to boost product visibility, traffic, and conversion. The ideal candidate combines expertise in digital media and e-commerce to lead cross-functional teams in delivering measurable business results.
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Responsibilities
- Demonstrate expertise in understanding the commerce landscape across MENA markets.
- Develop and implement tailored commerce strategies for clients, considering their business objectives, readiness, and commerce maturity.
- Offer solid and quantified digital commerce solutions to clients, aligning with their goals and objectives.
- Oversee Retail Media Planning, Activation, and optimization, ensuring proper operational resource planning across departments.
- Provide oversight and management of client's commerce teams, ensuring day-to-day deliverables and planning are executed effectively.
- Upskill the team's knowledge and capabilities to enhance their ability to serve clients and drive personal growth.
- Work on expanding client's current scopes and identify new commerce solutions to drive business benefits.
- Educate clients on emerging market trends and how they could be utilized to meet their business objectives.
- Assist the commerce director with new business pitches and product development for the practice.
- Excel in a matrix environment, requiring cross-functional collaboration between different practices within Nexus (Data & Tech, Programmatic, Performance, Content & SEO).
- Responsible for tracking and optimizing client KPIs, ensuring client satisfaction and facilitating client retention.
Skills and Experience
- 8-10 years’ experience within the digital/eCommerce media space is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of Amazon and e-retail merchandising and media capabilities in the Middle East.
- Experience in FMCG, Retail, E-Commerce/Shoppers Market, and Direct Response is a plus.
- Thorough understanding of various types of media, specifically, but not limited to digital, mobile, social media, digital content partnerships, e-commerce, and video.
- Proficient in reporting and analytics; strong analytical and strategic thinker who can interpret data at a glance.
- An entrepreneurial spirit with the operational skills to ensure self-directed projects and ideas are seen through to execution.
- Comfortable working with budgets and numbers.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Exceptional organizational skills, multi-tasking capabilities, and detail-oriented.
- Assertive, creative, team player with a proven sense of urgency.
- Ability to prioritize multiple demands (retailer, client, agency) simultaneously.
Life at the company & Benefits
Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. Employees can tap into the global the company & the company networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising.
- We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events.
- Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.
We are an equal opportunity employer, considering applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
In-person collaboration is key to fostering creativity, connection, and teamwork. Our hybrid approach encourages teams to be in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.
