Growth Marketing Manager

Gordon Food Service • Wyoming, MI

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Growth Marketing Manager is a strategic leader who bridges business strategy with campaign execution to drive commercial revenue. Directing a dedicated team of specialists across the end-to-end customer lifecycle, this role translates business goals into multi-channel strategies that accelerate acquisition, retention, and customer lifetime value. This leader harnesses our data to continuously optimize engagement touchpoints, driving re-order velocity and expanding share-of-wallet. Partnering closely with Marketing Operations, this leader leverages our MarTech stack, AI tooling, and enterprise platforms to accelerate campaign execution, experimentation, and scale growth.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing or related is required.
• Eight years of strategic and executional responsibilities in digital marketing or eCommerce required, including three years leading and developing a digital team.
• Commercial & Strategic Acumen: Proven ability to connect corporate financial objectives to multi-channel execution, maximizing customer lifetime value and channel yield.
• Team Leadership & Scope Governance: Strong management skills to coach specialists, manage workload intake, and maintain clear operational boundaries across acquisition, media monetization, and retention.
• Lifecycle & Retention Mastery: Deep understanding of customer journey mapping, behavioral triggers, segmentation, and re-order velocity models.
• Data-Driven & Experimental Mindset: Skilled in hypothesis-driven A/B testing methodologies, cohort retention analysis, and measuring campaign ROI.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Exceptional partnership skills to interface with Marketing Operations, Product Owners, Analytics teams, and vendor partners.
• Marketing Automation Platforms: Enterprise platforms (e.g., Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Hubspot, etc.) for automated lifecycle messaging and journey orchestration.
• Analytics: Reporting suites to evaluate behavioral patterns, cohort performance, and full-funnel attribution.
• Generative AI & Productivity Tools: AI tools and automation utilities used to accelerate copy iteration, creative testing, and campaign execution speed.
• Digital Ad & Commerce Platforms: Paid ad managers (Meta, Google), Retail Media Network ad packaging tools, and landing page UX platforms.
• Workflow & Intake Management: Campaign brief governance systems and tools used to manage specialist team velocity.

Responsibilities

• Direct overarching product marketing, positioning, and organic/paid growth strategies—spanning SEO, AI Engine Optimization (AEO/AIO), lead generation, and landing page UX.
• Build and govern a structured, hypothesis-driven A/B testing framework to continuously optimize multi-channel conversion and campaign velocity.
• Drive the end-to-end customer lifecycle strategy, partnering with Marketing Operations for technical deployment.
• Direct automated onboarding, retention, win-back, and churn-mitigation campaigns that accelerate re-order velocity and expand Customer Lifetime Value (CLV).
• Lead the strategic packaging, positioning, and commercial execution of Retail Media Network (RMN) ad inventory, supplier-funded campaigns, and vendor promotional partnerships to unlock new revenue streams.
• Partner closely with Marketing Operations and team Product Owners to translate commercial strategies into technical requirements.
• Enforce campaign brief governance, leverage generative AI and automation platforms, and track full-funnel cohort retention metrics to optimize overall platform efficiency.
• Directly lead, coach, and manage a team of marketing specialists.
• Establish clear KPIs, focus areas, and operational boundaries across Brand & Acquisition, Commerce Media (Retail Media Network), and Retention pillars.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level