Global Marketplace Strategy Lead
Location: Beaverton, Oregon
Country: United States
Category: Marketing
Workplace Location: Onsite
Employment Type: Contract
Posted Date: May 15, 2026
Job ID: 647245
Job Description
Global Marketplace Strategy Lead
Location: Beaverton, OR
Contract length: ~12 months
Schedule: Hybrid in Beaverton, OR (WFH Fridays)
Pay: $64-69.72/hr, DOE
The Planet Group is looking for a Global Marketplace Strategy Lead to join our well-known retail brand on a roughly 12-month contract! This role is 40 hours per week and will be hybrid in Beaverton, OR, working remotely on Fridays.
Global Marketplace Strategy Lead Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience in strategy, marketplace, merchandising, or general management
- Deep understanding of multi-channel retail and wholesale ecosystems
- Proven ability to define and operationalize strategy at scale
- Strong analytical and structured thinking skills
- Exceptional communication and storytelling ability for senior audiences
- Experience working in a global, matrixed organization
- Operate with enterprise mindset-balancing brand, consumer, and commercial priorities
- Lead through influence across a highly matrixed organization
- Bring clarity to ambiguity and drive disciplined decision making
- Elevate the thinking of teams through structured frameworks and sharp storytelling
- Model a high standard of accountability, collaboration, and pace
Global Marketplace Strategy Lead Description:
- Translate brand vision into actionable marketplace strategies
- Establish clear roles for each channel
- Drive alignment across global and geo teams to ensure disciplined, consistent execution
- Lead the development of a holistic marketplace strategy across wholesale and Direct
- Define the role of each channel (monobrand, Nike Direct, wholesale partners) in service of brand and business objectives
- Establish clear guardrails on distribution, assortment segmentation, and channel differentiation
- Translate brand priorities into marketplace actions that drive both growth and brand equity
- Build and operationalize channel strategies across key wholesale accounts and Direct formats
- Define "what goes where" across product, storytelling, and experiences
- Create decision frameworks that reduce overlap and internal competition across channels
- Partner with merchandising and planning to align assortment, OTB, and lifecycle strategies
- Serve as the connective tissue across merchandising, marketing, retail, digital, and geo teams
- Drive alignment on marketplace priorities, trade-offs, and execution plans
- Lead cross-functional forums and rituals to ensure clarity, accountability, and speed
- Influence senior stakeholders to make decisions that balance brand and commercial outcomes
- Turn strategic direction into clear frameworks, tools, and playbooks for global and geo teams
- Develop channel guardrails across product, services, environment, and storytelling
- Ensure strategies are scalable, actionable, and grounded in marketplace realities
- Partner with geos to adapt global strategy with local relevance while maintaining brand consistency
- Define KPIs to measure marketplace health across channels (brand, consumer, and financial metrics)
- Analyze performance and identify opportunities to optimize distribution, segmentation, and channel roles
- Lead continuous refinement of strategy based on insights and marketplace dynamics
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About The Planet Group
The Planet Group is a global professional services firm delivering strategic staffing and advisory solutions. We operate at the intersection of talent and transformation – connecting the right people with the right opportunities in the areas of technology, engineering, accounting & finance, digital marketing, and manufacturing.
As one of the largest staffing companies in the US, we operate with a global reach and a performance-first mindset. We partner with clients to move fast, stay agile, and drive measurable results – building high-impact teams that fuel transformation and growth.
