Associate Account Manager, Roundel Ready!

Associate Manager, Account Management

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Target Marketing is well known for inspiring and surprising guests, and we pride ourselves in connecting them to the products and experiences they expect and deserve from Target. We study our guests to discover new needs and insights, and then craft every interaction to build brand love and our business. We are market experts who insist on a clear and cohesive understanding of our business objectives, guest segments and behaviors, strategies and tactics, overcoming obstacles and measuring success. Our commitment to partnering both internally and with external agencies, media and ad tech companies gives us a wide range of capabilities, from award-winning creative work to exciting and performance-based marketing. Leveraging our collective assets and fostering a healthy, supportive and open team culture, we deliver a holistically gratifying experience that guests can only get at Target.

Roundel is Target's entry into the media business; an advertising sell-side business built on the principles of first party (people based) data, brand safe content environments and proof that our marketing programs drive business results for our clients. We operate with the ethos of trust and transparency and that media works best when it works in everyone's best interest. At the very root of that, Roundel is here to drive business growth for our clients, and redefine "value" in the industry by solving core industry challenges vs. copy current industry methods of operation. We are here to drive a key growth initiative for Target and to lead the industry to a better way of operating within the media marketplace.

As an Associate Manager, Account Management with Roundel Ready! you will be a part of Roundel's career development program that grows new talent into Retail Media Leaders of the future. This energized team is dedicated to short term rotational assignments in our Partner Solutions Group to provide opportunities to learn our business. This nimble team will provide strategic business continuity for a wide array of client accounts across various retail categories. You will develop creative multi-channel, integrated marketing solutions across digital channels and platforms for Roundel's clients. Given the dynamic nature of our work you will need a strong passion to learn and adapt quickly to provide a high level of customer service to clients. You will need strong communication and provide timely responses to requests and proactive resolution of potential issues. You will attend client meetings and consult to understand category trends and marketing needs. You will assist and build client campaign proposals. You will present strategic recommendations based on your client's key objectives, through compelling and effective guidance on specific media tactics and creative needs. As part of campaign development you will build audience strategies, media mix allocations, creative and media strategies that are aligned to client's priorities and rooted in category and brands insight, as well as leverage historical media performance. You will partner closely with various cross-functional teams; including but not limited to Performance & Insights, Sales, and Media Operations to deliver and execute effective results. You are detailed oriented, with analytical focus.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you :

• Four year college degree in Business, Marketing, Sales, or Analytics
• 1-2+ years experience in digital media planning and execution
• Ability and passion to drive results and thrives in an ambiguous environment
• Strong analytical and critical thinking abilities
• Superior time management and multitasking skill
• Strong passion to learn and appreciates a variety of experiences / ways to work
• Exposure to digital media concepts such as (CPM / ROAS / CTR / etc.)
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office including Excel, PowerPoint and Word as well as other equivalent programs.

This position will operate as a Hybrid / Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Hybrid / Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

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