Senior Digital Paid Retail Media Manager

Description

Ready to take your career to the next level?

Skai is looking for the best and the brightest to join our family. We're proud of our industry-leading digital marketing software but we're even prouder of the people behind it. That's where you come in!

The Senior Expert Services Manager is a senior practitioner and strategic advisor for Skai's enterprise retail media clients. You own the strategy, the performance and the outcome of an assigned book of accounts, from planning through hands-on execution, and you are the person clients rely on to make sense of a fragmented and fast-moving retail media landscape.

The role sits where deep channel expertise meets strategic consulting. The work is as much about asking the right question as running the right campaign: understanding what the client's business is actually trying to achieve, getting to the real cause of what the data is showing, and building a plan and a narrative the client can act on.

Working with the Retail Media Expert Services Director, you will serve external clients and act as one of our retail media experts for the region, supporting internal stakeholders and helping shape where Skai's platform goes next.

Duties and Responsibilities:

●      Own the strategy, performance and outcomes of an assigned book of enterprise retail media accounts

●      Plan, build and optimise campaigns hands-on across Amazon, Walmart, Instacart, Target, and other retail media networks, including day-to-day management as the account requires it

●      Investigate performance issues and opportunities, and bring recommendations clients act on

●      Advise senior client stakeholders on media planning, budget allocation across networks, and retail media best practice

●      Lead QBRs and strategic reviews, and support the client services team on renewals, growth conversations and escalations

●      Build custom analyses, reports and automations where the standard tools and templates fall short

●      Serve as the retail media subject matter expert for the region, supporting internal stakeholders across the business

●      Mentor less experienced colleagues and contribute to team playbooks and process

●      Partner with product development, sales, technical account management and sales engineers to drive platform innovation and capture market opportunity

Position Requirements:

We care more about what you have done than how long you have been doing it, so the requirements below are written as evidence rather than years. Expect to speak to them concretely.

Technical skills, required:

●      Enterprise retail media ownership, as the senior owner accountable for strategy through execution rather than delivering someone else's plan.

●      Amazon and Walmart, full stack (search and DSP). Hands-on across Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, Sponsored Display, Amazon DSP, Walmart Connect sponsored search and Walmart DSP, plus Vendor Central, Seller Central and the 1P versus 3P distinction.

●      AMC beyond the out-of-the-box templates, used to answer questions standard reporting cannot, build custom audiences and analyses (for example incrementality or multi-touch attribution), and change what a client does next.

●      Analytical depth. Root-cause analysis rather than surface reporting, and the judgement to tie metrics back to the client's actual business objectives rather than optimising to a dashboard.

●      Retail media ecosystem fluency. How retailer economics, onsite, offsite and DSP, 1P and 3P, and shopper marketing fit together, and why a tactic that works on one network fails on another.

●      Advanced use of generative AI tools such as Claude to produce your own technical outputs, from reshaping data to reports, automations and custom agents. A software engineering background is not required.

Ways of working, required:

●      Strategic translation. Turning ambiguous client goals into strategy, plans and narratives clients can carry to their own leadership, built around Skai's technology and the right partners.

●      Stakeholder range. Credible from the analyst running day-to-day to the executive who owns the budget, within the same account.

●      Cross-functional operation. Fast-paced, matrixed environments where delivery depends on teams that do not report to you.

●      Ownership and follow-through. Takes problems to resolution rather than to the next person, picks up what is unowned, and does the right thing because