Retail Marketing Specialist

This position is designated as a hybrid role based out of our headquarters near Portland, Oregon. The current expectation is for employees to work onsite four days per week, subject to change based on business needs. This in-office requirement may be adjusted at the discretion of the company.

ABOUT THE POSITION

The North America Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) team focuses on our outlet, brand, and employee stores within the US and Canada. From merchandising to retail marketing to retail operations,there is a highly collaborative team working "behind the scenes" to ensure our consumers have a positive experience in our stores.

The Retail Marketing Specialist will support marketing strategy and execution of measurable traffic to brand stores and factory stores in North America through ownership of store and brand partnerships, program and campaign management and event activation execution.

HOWYOU'LLMAKE A DIFFERENCE

• Support traffic-driving initiatives surrounding the customer brand experience to include but not limited to; in-store and at-mall event activations, special brand partnerships, media programs, local partnerships, and mall partnerships to increase brand awareness and foot traffic to stores.
• Create impactful, engaging experiences for customers through project management and execution of retail event activations to include event ideation, creative asset and email briefing, market research, external vendor partnership, contractual negotiations, mall partnerships, and recapping.
• Brand campaign management support to include calendar planning, briefing assets and creative curation, delivering print and digital assets to vendors and partners and ensuring strategic alignment across channels.
• Manage relationships and communications with external mall management teams, ensuring seamless participation in mall promotions, programs, campaigns, and events.
• Support store-level execution of brand partnership and campaigns, ensuring alignment with broader marketing goals.
• Develop and support recommendations for key local partnerships in market.
• Provide weekly traffic reporting and performance results of owned activations.
• Partner cross-functionally with internal teams (ISM, Ecommerce, Legal, Design, Real Estate, Merchants, and Operations) to ensure alignment and successful execution of marketing strategies.

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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.

Columbia Sportswear Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. . If you need reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please notify your recruiter.

At Columbia Sportswear Company, we're proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding. Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being : physical, social / emotional, financial, career and community. Benefits that can protect your family's financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match. Columbia offers medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services). In addition, Columbia offers EAP + which is free and confidential 24 / 7 / 365 counseling services. We have extensive wellness benefits, employee discounts and a generous time off program available.

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