Industry Strategy Specialist

Acxiom • New York, NY

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Industry Strategy Specialist supports Acxiom's consumer industry team across retail, QSR, sports, and other consumer verticals. The role builds industry-specific knowledge and owns the response process for inbound RFIs and RFPs, ensuring that submissions are accurate, on message, and delivered on time. It also supports existing client opportunities, strategic upsell conversations, proactive sales enablement, and thought leadership to help accelerate the business.

This is a growth role. Over time, the Industry Strategist takes on broader industry strategy work, moving from managing responses and repositories toward shaping the strategies behind them. Success means proposals are sharper and faster, and the knowledge that supports them is organized and easy to reuse.

Requirements

• Three to five years of experience in proposal management, industry strategy, marketing, or a related client-facing role.
• Strong writing skills, with experience producing clear and persuasive proposal or marketing content.
• Excellent organization and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple submissions at once.
• Interest in building deep knowledge of consumer industries and the data and martech landscape.
• Comfort coordinating input across teams and holding contributors to deadlines.
• Strong critical-thinking and communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end response process for RFIs and RFPs across the consumer industry team.
• Maintain and improve the content repositories that support proposal responses.
• Partner with Portfolio Strategy, Product, Strategic Advisors, Sales, Marketing, and Delivery teams to develop industry positioning, support strategic opportunities, and create accurate client-facing messaging.
• Build industry-specific knowledge across retail, QSR, and sports over time.
• Support the broader industry strategy team with research, materials, and analysis.
• Track submission outcomes and incorporate lessons learned into the response process.
• Grow into deeper industry strategy work as knowledge and scope expand.
• Support existing client opportunities, strategic upsell conversations, proactive sales enablement, and thought leadership.

What This Job Offers

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