Inmar Intelligence is seeking a highly strategic and client-focused Manager, Client Strategy to lead a team responsible for developing client-facing proposals, strategic narratives, campaign recommendations, and presentation materials across the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) portfolio.
This role sits at the intersection of Sales, Client Success, Analytics, Media, Product, and Retail—ensuring client objectives are translated into compelling, insight-driven strategies and recommendations that support revenue growth and strengthen client engagement.
The Manager, Client Strategy is responsible for both people leadership and strategic execution. This individual will coach and develop Client Strategy team members, manage team priorities and workload, maintain high standards for strategic output, and provide hands-on strategic guidance for complex or high-priority client opportunities.
The ideal candidate combines strong people leadership with expertise in CPG, shopper marketing, retail media, integrated campaign strategy, and executive-level storytelling. This leader should be comfortable moving between coaching team members, reviewing strategic work, collaborating with cross-functional partners, and directly contributing to important client opportunities.
This is not a traditional design or coordination role. The Manager, Client Strategy is accountable for ensuring the team consistently develops strategic, differentiated, and operationally achievable recommendations that effectively communicate Inmar's value in the market.
Team Leadership & Development:
-Lead, coach, and develop a team of Client Strategy professionals
-Set clear expectations for strategic thinking, presentation quality, client readiness, and executional feasibility
-Provide regular coaching, feedback, and professional development
Strengthen team capabilities across:
Strategic planning
CPG and shopper marketing
Retail media
Audience and media strategy
Executive storytelling
Client communication
-Manage workload, priorities, and resource allocation across client requests and revenue opportunities
-Support employee performance, development, and career growth
-Foster a collaborative, accountable, and solutions-oriented team culture
-Identify opportunities to improve team knowledge, skills, processes, and tools
Client Strategy & Strategic Storytelling:
-Lead and oversee the development of client-facing strategies, proposals, and recommendations
-Guide team members in translating client business goals into actionable media, audience, shopper, and campaign strategies
-Ensure strategic narratives align to objectives such as:
Brand awareness
Trial and acquisition
Basket growth
Repeat purchase
Retail conversion
Review and provide strategic direction on proposal decks, presentations, and campaign recommendations
Ensure client-facing materials are:
Insight-driven
Strategically differentiated
Visually compelling
Client-centric
Operationally achievable
-Provide hands-on strategic support for complex, high-value, or high-priority opportunities
-Guide development of post-campaign recommendations that identify performance insights, key learnings, optimization opportunities, and future growth opportunities
Pre-Sales Partnership & Revenue Enablement:
-Partner closely with Sales and Client Success leaders throughout the pre-sale planning process
-Oversee strategic support for:
RFP responses
Proposals
Pitches
Client planning sessions
Growth opportunities
-Guide the development of:
Audience strategies
Channel mix recommendations
Campaign approaches
Retail and shopper strategies
Measurement frameworks
Ensure proposals clearly communicate:
Strategic rationale
Inmar differentiation
Business impact
Measurement approach
Growth opportunities
-Participate directly in strategic pitches and client presentations as needed
-Partner with commercial teams to improve proposal quality, differentiation, and win potential
-Capture learnings from client feedback, wins, and losses to continuously improve…