Luxury Retail Marketing Manager

We are looking for a skilled Luxury Retail Marketing Manager to manage our organization’s advertising initiatives. To be successful as in this role, you should be able to work well in a team environment, have the ability to collaborate with managers and owners, designers, writers, etc. This candidate should have excellent communication and leadership skills and a great understanding of digital, public relations, social media and traditional marketing for the Chicagoland area.

Responsibilities:

• Cultivate employees within the marketing department into one team, even though team members have their own specific marketing specialties.
• Oversee annual marketing planning strategies to present and execute fiscal year marketing plans.
• Comfortable working with multiple brands and creating a marketing plan for each brand, while ultimately keeping on target with Razny Jewelers’ annual marketing plans
• Manage all projects under the marketing department to ensure that annual plans are executed, and all deadlines are met by members of the department.
• Serve as the direct manager to employees within the Marketing Department
• Monitor the performance of marketing campaigns to ensure they are meeting goals such as generating new leads or traffic.
• Report to Owners, where efforts on all key performance indicators should be focused based on market research, including both paid and organic efforts.
• Develop and implement new marketing strategies based on current market trends.
• Collaborate with other members of the marketing team to discuss strategies for media channels, blogs, and other online platforms.
• Create and manage the budget for the entire marketing department.
• This will include reporting why the annual budget should be split into specific areas of the marketing department.
• Work with the marketing leaders to understand the needs of the budget and their plans for deployment.
• Analyze data and making strategic recommendations for improving digital marketing efforts.
• Oversee the reconciling of all invoices and co-op submission to both the Owners and accounting department in a timely manner.
• Act as the project leader for all events, executive visits and charity functions.
• Supervise client gifting endeavors.

Requirements:

• 10 – 15 years of experience in the luxury marketing and advertising space
• 10 years of experience managing direct reports
• This includes managing an office calendar for all members of the department.
• Able to work with colleagues at all levels to develop marketing goals and evaluate results
• Must be comfortable setting priority lists for department and employees based on project deadlines
• Must also feel comfortable pivoting, last minute, if the Razny Family decides to change directives.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working with both traditional and digital marketing
• Proficient in Excel and Google Products such Google Ads and Analytics
• Must be able to work in our Highland Park location Monday – Friday with flexibility for events on the weekends and evenings both in-store and remotely.

Razny Jewelers