VP of Shopper & Retailer Marketing

ABOUT US

OLIPOP was founded in 2017 by Ben Goodwin and David Lester. Ben and David have been working together for nearly a decade to find accessible solutions to bring the benefits of digestive health to as many consumers as possible.  OLIPOP is a deliciously refreshing tonic that is crafted with prebiotics, botanicals, and natural plant fiber to support your microbiome and benefit digestive health. We're on a mission to provide an affordable, delicious alternative to soda that delivers leading-edge health benefits to mainstream consumers.

OUR TEAM

At Olipop our values lead the way we create our products, engage with each other, and interact with our community. While we’re invested in our product, we’re equally invested in personal development. We’re tightly knit, we’re genuine and we’re always pushing the envelope to do a better job than we did the day before. Our team is also fully remote, requiring us to be resourceful, creative and collaborative to support our fast-moving business.

To best serve our diverse community of customers, we also seek to recruit and include people with a diversity of abilities, backgrounds, and cultures.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

Working at a start-up can be as much a personal journey as it is a professional one. To succeed at a company like Olipop, you must be comfortable with failing, learning, and adapting. You need to be curious, optimistic, and able to find a way when it seems impossible. You must be confident enough to express your ideas but humble and open to learning from your experiences and from others. If this is the approach you take to life, then we’d love to hear from you.

THE ROLE

OLIPOP is searching for a VP of Shopper & Retailer Marketing to join our team and drive high impact in shopper marketing, retailer media, in-store displays & execution, look of success on shelf & strategic retailer partnerships & programming. This position focuses on building and growing our current shopper & retail marketing team while being the bridge between the brand marketing and commercial functions of the business.In this role, you’ll be the functional leader of the Shopper & Retailer Marketing Team leading all commercial initiatives across digital & physical shopper & retailer marketing strategies. It will be critical that your leadership style is aligned with our company values and you’re able to motivate, grow, challenge, and inspire future leaders in this industry. If you’re an impactful leader that is looking for a fast paced environment, an opportunity for personal growth and responsibility, and enjoy having fun along the way, then this is a role you’ll thrive in!

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create a vision and drive execution of shopper marketing initiatives across major retail channels and customers that span across the entire shopper journey, strategizing and partnering closely with the Sales, Marketing & Commercial Strategy teams in both large format & small format retailers.
• Build, develop, and grow a best in class Shopper & Retailer Marketing Team for the fastest growing beverage category in the country.
• Understand the importance and skills that are needed to build a high performing, cross-functional, and growth mindset team that will be critical for the continued success of the OLIPOP brand and the category we lead.
• Develop & own our current strategy & budgets behind all facets of shopper and retailer marketing opportunities and programs.
• Develop & own the commercial strategy, cross-functional implementation, and in-store execution of displays, POS, sweepstakes, coupons & retailer partnerships.
• Develop, own, and adapt our current shopper & retailer marketing toolbox for the next phase of growth at OLIPOP in order to enable both our key account teams & field execution teams to succeed within their roles & functions.
• Collaborate with the sales, supply chain, & finance teams on the development of in-store display programming ideation, planning, and execution at store level.
• Collaborate with category & business insights teams on space planning, merchandising, & shopper insights to inform our look of success across our retail partners and key channels of business.
• Collaborate & partner with our marketing & brand team on developing, building, and implementing 360 Marketing approaches on a quarterly basis across brand & commercial big marketing impact moments to ensure that all creative campaign ideas have a call to action in store.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years in the consumer packaged goods industry experience within a shopper & retailer marketing role; beverage experience a plus.
• 5+ years being a people manager with impactful leadership experience.
• Must have hands-on experience with the following platforms/partners in order to understand how to drive strategy with our team: Instacart, iBotta, Catalina, News America and ALL retailer.com shopper retail media platforms.
• Must have experience with the vendors that assist with: in-store display program, POS, merch, & space planning/display rendering.
• Must have in-store experience from ideation and strategy to in-store execution of displays with cross-functional work with sales, finance, & supply chain.
• Deeply passionate about OLIPOP, and inspired by what we represent. Has the desire and hunger to make an impact.
• Advanced proficiency across all retailer media platforms, how they operate, and how to optimize our performance across each.
• A thorough understanding of the full retailer landscape and expert knowledge base of all the various ways that OLIPOP can activate within the shopper & retailer marketing function.
• Obsession for understanding sales trends. Lives, breathes and dreams about how to better translate data to tell stories, drive teams, & provide strategic guidance for our teams.
• Enthusiastic and comfortable working in an early stage company. Ability to think rapidly in a growing and changing environment.
• Ability to be a leader, a teacher, & a willingness to get your hands on critical projects and strategic initiatives for the business.
• Must be a highly adaptable strategic thinker that is willing to be curious and a creative problem solver.
• Extensive experience in understanding consumer needs and the retail environment.
• You’re able to know when to delegate, know when to coach, & know when to jump in.
• Strong ability to connect the dots from data to building a comprehensive narrative to grow our brand and business.
• An acute attention to detail, but not to the point of being inflexible, and the ability to produce accurate work quickly & efficiently.
• Ability to take initiative and work autonomously – you can run with something from beginning to end.
• Works well with ambiguity and asks the right questions to get at the solution.
• Strong planning, organization and project management skills, along with excellent interpersonal, written/oral communication and presentation skills.
• Proficient in Google Suite and Microsoft Suite. Experience with team collaboration tools such as Slack and Zoom preferred.

REPORTS TO:

VP of Commercial Strategy

COMPENSATION:

$200,000-$220,000 base salary + bonus