Commerce Strategy Director

Flywheel Digital•Chicago, IL

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Flywheel is seeking a digital commerce expert to join our team as a Commerce Strategy Director. Our Commerce Strategy team functions as the strategic arm of Flywheel’s commercial team offering a practitioner’s lens to our new business sales approach. Success in this role is directly tied to Flywheel’s revenue growth, but a truly successful candidate will do well through insight-based additions to pitches, a competitive streak externally but highly collaborative internally, and a deep curiosity to discover, create, and teach new solutions and capabilities that help Flywheel win.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in digital and physical commerce, with direct experience with building strategies that help brands achieve their objectives.
Specific practitioner experience required with Amazon search, DSP, AMC, and retail knowledge, with additional depth of knowledge on Walmart and other digital commerce retailers.
Proven track record in fast-paced, results-oriented environments.
Strategic mindset with the ability to balance immediate client needs with long-term organizational capability building.
Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to craft compelling written narratives and deliver persuasive presentations.
Excellent project management skills and ability to juggle multiple workstreams with competing deadlines with obsession over quality and results.
Comfortable working across multiple time zones and regional structures, and bring a global perspective to organizational challenges.

Nice To Haves

Experience in omnichannel commerce, media, advertising, or similar industries is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead strategic components of Flywheel’s commercial and new business approach.
Partner closely with Flywheel’s Business Development Directors to coordinate pitch strategy and bring bespoke and tailored opportunities to the organization's highest-value opportunities.
Build and deliver best in class pitch narratives.
Work across Omnicom agencies to identify opportunities for collaboration.
Create process to more quickly go to market with insights, leveraging or building new tools or connecting between existing capabilities to create something new.
Build organizational capability and develop training and knowledge transfer programs that enable the broader sales organization to execute strategic work independently.