Connected Commerce Specialist

Date: 27 Oct 2025

Location: Downers Grove IL, IL, US, 60515

Company: Glanbia

Glanbia Performance Nutrition is global nutrition company and the brand portfolio consists of – Optimum Nutrition, BSN, Isopure, think!, and Amazing Grass.  GPN manufactures and markets the full range of performance nutrition and lifestyle products including protein, pre-workout, muscle gainers, ready-to-eat snacks and general health.

 

We are hiring a Connected Commerce Specialist which is a newly created role that will work closely with the full cross-functional team to ensure seamless execution of retail support plans. Duties & responsibilities include

 

  • Works collaboratively with Connected Commerce Manager on execution of programs, facilitating work flow for projects in development, ensuring timely approvals and production delivery with brand
  • Assist Connected Commerce Manager in the creation of briefs for agency and retailer activations along with creative services to ensure a holistic strategy that aligns with National and Retailer tentpoles/communication
  • Collaborate with creative services to ensure asset delivery for campaign launches
  • Support Connected Commerce Manager in tracking, pulling and organizing data from internal and external sources across multiple sales channels & brands
  • Support Connected Commerce Manager in creating post campaign recaps for internal stakeholders that highlight performance and learnings from campaigns
  • Financial support - Assist Connected Commerce Manager with securing PO’s, tracking invoices and performing monthly reconciliation of customer programming accruals in collaboration with brand team; resolve accounting discrepancies with Finance department and external vendors
  • Competitive and Trend Analysis – Spend time in all retail environments documenting and reporting on current trends across merchandising solutions, shelf solutions, marketing solutions, etc.  Build out monthly retail marketing communication showcasing trends and noting implications of those trends for our brands.
  • Evergreen tools and tactics – manage an inventory of evergreen/ templated merchandising catalog, always available for customer and experiential teams to use for tactical and ad-hoc needs

 

Experience & qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree with at least one year of media experience, preferably in Retail Media or Shopper Marketing
  • Comfortable working and learning in dashboards, retail platforms and analyzing spreadsheets to gather insights
  • High attention to detail with the ability to efficiently prioritize and execute projects with quality
  • Efficiency in Excel: basic functions such as pivot tables, vlookups and formulas to communicate success of Connected Commerce activations

 

 

Glanbia Performance Nutrition has enjoyed consistent double-digit growth which has been achieved both organically and through acquisition. Today, GPN has approximately $1.2B in revenue and 2,500 employees worldwide. Our award-winning performance and lifestyle brands inspire our customers to achieve their performance and healthy lifestyle goals. Whether you want to build muscle, reach peak performance or eat more protein-rich foods we have a product to match. Apply now and make a difference in the world of health and wellness! Glanbia provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles; the annual salary for this role is $60,000-80,000 plus an annual bonus. This range may not be applicable to other locations. Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role. 

 

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a wide variety of candidates, and we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. 

 

At Glanbia our culture will celebrate individuality, knowing that together we are more.


Nearest Major Market: Chicago