About the Role
Marks is building the connective tissue between strategy, creative & production and commercial outcomes. The VP, Global Commerce leads the practice that owns the commerce end of that system, turning brand and content into performant, spec-compliant, measurable commerce assets at scale. This role combines vision and operations, requiring a leader who can build and run digital shelf operations at scale, acting as a consultative peer to clients.
Responsibilities
- Recruit, mentor, and scale the team; define the operating model and specialist craft.
- Convert capability into new business and expanded scope with existing clients.
- Evolve the offering from North America centric to global.
- Own the commerce point of view for clients, including digital shelf, retail media adjacency, content supply chain, and strategy to sell-through.
- Engage with client Commerce and eCommerce leaders as a subject-matter peer.
- Convert ambiguity into instrumented, fundable pilots.
- Lead end-to-end production of PDP and A+ content, variant generation, retailer feed syndication, metadata discipline, and channel adaptation at portfolio scale.
- Hold the operating numbers for quality, throughput, and margin.
- Connect brief, creative, shelf, and outcome to demonstrate impact.
- Operate the intelligence layer for measurement and attribution.
- Build, partner, and buy AI tools and integrations with third-party tools.
Requirements
- Strong sense of teamwork and matrix management.
- Demonstrated operating experience running eCommerce / digital shelf content for large CPG or retail brands.
- Experience with Amazon, Walmart, retailer .coms, and the syndication ecosystem.
- Fluency in retail media data, retailer clean rooms, performance analytics, and connecting content to sell-through.
- Hands-on credibility with DAM, PIM, syndication, and variant / version management.
- Evaluative fluency with AI-enabled content production and its quality and compliance limits.
- Track record advising CPG commerce clients as a subject-matter peer.
- Experience running a delivery team for throughput, quality, and margin.
Skills
- Digital shelf at scale
- Commerce measurement fluency
- Content supply-chain craft
- Practical AI literacy
- Client-grade commerce credibility
- Practice / P&L leadership
Location
- Chicago
- New York
- Toronto
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 10+ years in digital commerce / eCommerce / digital shelf
- 6+ years leading teams
- Experience building or scaling a commerce capability inside an agency, retailer, or brand
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Advanced degree a plus
- Modern commerce-agency or commerce-platform background strongly preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000 - $240,000 USD annually
Benefits
- Selection of health care plans with prescription drug coverage
- Dental plan
- Vision plan
- Basic and supplemental life insurance
- Flexible spending account for medical and dependent care expenses or a health savings account based on plan selection
- Short/long term disability
- 401(k) Savings Plan
About the Company
- Marks is a global creative platform working seamlessly at the intersection of brand design, content, commerce, and experience.
- Propelis is a portfolio of global marketing services and technology companies with a combined legacy of 150+ years, 2,000+ clients, 9,000 employees, and operations across 30 countries.
- Propelis provides the scale and support of a global organization while preserving the unique culture and identity of each company in its portfolio.
Equal Opportunity
- We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
- All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
- We offer equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
- Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled.
- We strive to make our employment website and application process accessible to all users and applicants.
- In doing so, we provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
- If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation or assistance completing the application process, please contact a member of our Human Resource Team.
