Programmatic Manager

Mars United Commerce Powered by Marilyn is a global commerce company that delivers all the solutions clients need to grow their business today and tomorrow. Founded by the late Marilyn Barnett, we’ve become global leaders in four key commerce disciplines – Strategy & Analytics, Digital Commerce, Content & Experiences, and Retail Consultancy – that together form a United Commerce Ecosystem that provides all the expertise clients need to navigate the commerce marketing landscape. Our 800 Martians across North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Asia exist to drive growth for our people, our clients, and our communities all across the globe.

We’re looking for a Programmatic Manager. Programmatic and/or biddable media experience on the Amazon DSP is required. Candidates without Amazon experience will not be considered. Candidates must reside in a commutable distance to Mars United Commerce's Chicago, New York, Detroit or Bentonville office.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Partially client-facing role developing and flawlessly executing best-in-class connected commerce campaigns, mainly on the Amazon DSP.
• Hands-to-keyboard set-up, management, and optimization of campaigns on the Amazon DSP. Provide training and troubleshooting to the rest of the team on this platform.
• Work with eCommerce team to ensure full Amazon resources are being utilized, such as the Amazon Brand Innovation Lab and Amazon Marketing stack. Keep current on Amazon display/DSP innovations and new features.
• Supervise and train a Specialist/Sr. Specialist. This is a people-managing role. You will be responsible for training, setting goals, and overall supervision of the Specialist.
• Supervise creation of reports and presentations highlighting the campaign set-up and final plan with internal teams. Report back on campaign performance. Collaborate with vendor and team to provide campaign data, insights and strategic recommendations based on client objectives, media strategy and results
• Develop clear understanding of campaign set-up, performance and reporting structure and clearly set and communicate performance expectations with internal teams.
• Proactively communicate with Director and team. Proactive communication is especially important in today’s world of remote work.
• Management of budgets, ensuring all client facing documents are accurate, and all vendor savings are documented for financial reporting
• Management of program trackers and timelines
• Management of vendor partners
  
  

SKILLSETS REQUIRED:

• Ability to proactively organize and prioritize workload to manage timelines and deliverables
• Extremely high attention to detail.
• Sound decision-making skills based on industry, agency, and client knowledge.
• Prior hands-to-keyboard Amazon DSP experience required. Experience on The Trade Desk and/or DV360 is a plus.
• Experience with other retail media networks is also a plus (such as Citrus Ad, Criteo, Quotient, Promote IQ, Pacvue, Instacart, etc.)
• Experience with verification software (MOAT preferred), Google Ads, and Google Campaign Manager also a plus, but not required.
• Robust spreadsheet skills (both Excel and Google Sheets) with confidence to use, daily, basic formulas, advanced formulas, VLOOKUP, and Pivot Tables.
• Collaborative with willingness to listen and learn
• Comfortable with proactive communication via email, Slack and ZOOM calls.
  
  

Mars United Commerce is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job classifications without regard to race, ancestry, creed, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or handicap, HIV, veteran, marital or family status, or any other status or condition protected by applicable state and/or federal laws, except where a bonafide occupational qualification applies.

Mars United Commerce has developed a wide variety of inclusive benefit plans and policies that address and promote the needs of all employees and their family members, including comprehensive group health plans, a parental leave program that includes paid maternity and paternity benefits for pregnancy, adoption and surrogacy, flexible paid time off, a broad and confidential employee assistance program, ongoing wellness support initiatives, trusted financial health advice and guidance, promotion of education through tuition support and assistance, and a flexible and supportive work environment and culture.

Compensation Range: $73,910 - $116,380 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be November 30, 2025.

Chicago: $73,910 - $106,260

Bentonville: $73,910 - $96,140

New York: $73,910 - $116,380

Detroit: $73,910 - $101,200

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