{"id":1401,"date":"2009-03-24T17:28:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T13:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2009\/03\/24\/job-petsmart-director-of-internet-biz-strategy\/"},"modified":"2009-03-24T17:28:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T13:28:57","slug":"job-petsmart-director-of-internet-biz-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2009\/03\/24\/job-petsmart-director-of-internet-biz-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"JOB: PetSmart &#8211; Director of Internet Biz Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PETSMART<\/p>\n<p>DIRECTOR OF INTERNET BUSINESS STRATEGY<\/p>\n<p>The Director of Internet Business Strategy is responsible for<br \/>\nleveraging our petsmart.com presence to profitably drive ecommerce<br \/>\nsales and use the web to market our brand and stores.<br \/>\nResponsibilities include developing the strategic plan, managing our<br \/>\noutsourced hosting partner, prioritizing and executing the operating<br \/>\nplan, and providing the cross-functional leadership and direction in<br \/>\nachieving our corporate growth goals.  As a business champion, this<br \/>\nleadership position will be a key strategic partner in our multi-<br \/>\nchannel customer experience development, and business integration<br \/>\nopportunities across all customer channels.  This will include<br \/>\nmanaging two (2) senior managers who supervise a total of ten (10)<br \/>\nassociates.<\/p>\n<p>ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES<\/p>\n<p>Develops the strategic plan and operating budget for the department<br \/>\nwith overall responsibility for P&amp;L of e-commerce activities for<br \/>\nPetSmart.com.  Defines operating strategies including customer<br \/>\ncontact strategies, on-line advertising, email marketing, search<br \/>\nengine, and affiliate programs to drive incremental business across<br \/>\nall channels.<\/p>\n<p>Plays a key leadership role in the development of brand and user<br \/>\ncontent in addition to expanding the customer community base.<br \/>\nResponsible for optimizing the customer experience to ensure the day-<br \/>\nto-day effectiveness of content display, merchandising and product<br \/>\npresentation, navigation, and search.<\/p>\n<p>Continually strives to improve the effectiveness of the websites<br \/>\nthrough partnership with corporate resources.  Oversees the planning<br \/>\nof key promotions and special events to support corporate goals and<br \/>\nensure integration of the internet across all channels.<\/p>\n<p>Manages key relationship with our ecommerce platform partner, and key<br \/>\nstrategic alliances including Search Agency and email Vendor.<\/p>\n<p>Fosters collaboration with merchandising, IS, store operations,<br \/>\ncustomer service, distribution, supply chain, creative, charities,<br \/>\ncorporate communications, CRM and retail marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Works closely with core merchandising team and Internet staff to<br \/>\nensure correct and accurate product presentation and testing<br \/>\ndifference product merchandising and promotional alternatives.  Plays<br \/>\na key stakeholder role in the customer contact strategy development<br \/>\nand execution, including email, affiliate, search marketing, landing<br \/>\npage and site experience.<\/p>\n<p>Oversee the analysis and distribution of weekly\/monthly\/annual key<br \/>\nmetrics and sales performance reporting from both a corporate and<br \/>\nBrand perspective.<\/p>\n<p>EDUCATION and\/or EXPERIENCE<\/p>\n<p>Bachelor&#8217;s degree from a four-year college or university in<br \/>\nMarketing, Business or Finance.<br \/>\nMBA and Retail experience preferred.<br \/>\nMinimum of 7 years experience that includes leadership experience<br \/>\nwith Internet strategy, direct marketing, and\/or retailing.<br \/>\nPrior experience developing and implementing a compelling strategy<br \/>\nand concept that builds relationships with customers and converts<br \/>\nthem into lifelong, loyal customers.<br \/>\nStrong leadership and mentoring skills.<br \/>\nStrong creative problem-solving and project management skills.<br \/>\nWorking in a fluid and evolving organization that is very matrixed<br \/>\nand highly collaborative.<br \/>\nCreating effective partnerships with 3rd party vendors.<\/p>\n<p>CONTACT IN CONFIDENCE<\/p>\n<p>Michelle C.<br \/>\nMutter<br \/>\n    MCM@MutterAssociates.com<br \/>\nMICHELLE C. MUTTER &amp; ASSOCIATES,<br \/>\nINC.                                                  847\/835-4601<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETSMART DIRECTOR OF INTERNET BUSINESS STRATEGY The Director of Internet Business Strategy is responsible for leveraging our petsmart.com presence to profitably drive ecommerce sales and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intern","category-job","category-listserv","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}