Assistant Brand Partnerships Marketing Manager, Shoes and Handbags

The Assistant Brand Partnerships Marketing Manager is responsible for aiding the strategic selling and execution of Neiman Marcus (NM) omni-channel holistic marketing and co-op campaigns.This position supports the Senior Marketing Manager/Marketing Manager to assist in internal and external client service, campaign execution, invoicing, forecasting, and campaign reporting.

The Assistant Manager interacts daily with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams. Strategic capabilities, strong organizational skills and exceptional collaboration are critical to the role.

Position Responsibilities

• Marketing Support: Develop a strong rapport with internal and external teams through a detailed understanding of all facets within a project, clear and concise communication (written and verbal) and overall level of professionalism. Act as resource for current information about the status of projects in progress and keep management informed of same. Manage various planning documents and processes across Marketing team. Provide support across marketing team as needed to help ensure that the entire process goes smoothly.

• Client/Vendor Management: In partnership with Marketing Managers, aid in the development of strategic business plans and preparation of omni-channel presentations to an executive-level audience. Assembles and is responsible for weekly completion and distribution of accurate and comprehensive status reports to clients and internal team members. Attends relevant meetings for current projects and provides written call reports pertaining to what was discussed and next steps. Circulate call reports to appropriate internal team members and clients. Ensure agreements, language, and terms are captured in proposals and the proper follow ups are happening/deliverables are on track.

• Campaign Execution: Manage all aspects of omni-channel co-op campaigns focusing on digital and social execution, co-op calendar management, reporting and co-op support. Oversee processes and timing related to digital and social co-op marketing campaigns. Follows up with brand partners to secure signed contracts and enter individual marketing tactics related to brand contracts into the project management platform (Wrike). Partner closely with Assistant Buyers to secure product information.

• Budget Management: Provides goal tracking updates and assigns appropriate chargeback information to each brand contract and submits to NM finance for invoicing and processing.

• Analytics & Reporting: Compiles coop campaign reporting from multiple channel owners and secures visuals related to each tactic. Provides co-op reporting and recaps to team members for further insights and distributes reporting to brand partners.

• Provides support across marketing team as needed

Who you are

• A Self Starter | A self-starter who has an entrepreneurial attitude combined with a strong business acumen.
• Open and collaborative | This role and team works very cross-functional across merchants, marketing, and brand partners. A team player is a must!
• Detail oriented, organized, and able to multi-task | Marketing operates with lots of moving pieces. To be successful in this role, you must be super organized and able to juggle many hats. No detail is too small for you.
• Optimistic and resilient | A can-do attitude ready to dig in and figure out how to work around problems and find creative solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2-5 years of relevant experience in marketing or a related field
• Detail oriented with the ability to prioritize, plan and organize. Must be comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills.
• Self-starter, self-motivated and capable of building relationships across teams.
• Excellent organizational, analytical and influencing skills. Ability to deliver results under pressure.