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Associate Marketing Manager, Vendors + Events

Location: Northbrook, Illinois

We inspire purpose-filled living that brings beauty and quality to the modern home. Together, we achieve. Associates across our business drive results, innovate, and inspire. Drawn together by our shared values and passion for our customers and our brands, we deliver home furnishings that are expertly designed, responsibly sourced, and bring timeless style and function to people’s homes. From the day we opened our first store in Chicago in 1962 to the digital innovations that engage millions of customers today, our iconic brand is over 60 years in the making—and our story is still unfolding.

We’re here for it. We think you should be too. We’re looking for a driven professional with an inclusive mindset to join our team as an Associate Marketing Manager, Vendors + Events.

The Associate Marketing Manager, Vendors + Events is responsible for facilitating brand experience for both our vendor partners as well as our customers. This person will support, and eventually lead vendor marketing programs across Crate’s Kitchen category, as well as manage relevant store events. This role is pivotal in establishing strong relationships with Crate’s most valuable partners, and growing market share across our new and existing store footprint.

This is an on-site position (Monday through Thursday) based out of our Northbrook, IL office with the flexibility to work remotely on Fridays.

A day in the life as an Associate Marketing Manager, Vendors + Events…

  • Act as daily point of contact for vendor partners across all lines of business
  • Cultivate strong relationships with external partners, often multiple for each vendor
  • Coordinate cross-functional execution of all vendor activities from content creation through support across paid advertising, email, organic social, ecom and print channels
  • Monitor results of vendor activities to ensure success on a daily basis
  • Initiate corrective action to strengthen performance of programs when necessary
  • Create quarterly external facing performance reports and recaps for each vendor
  • Support annual planning process from establishing framework to creating necessary documentation / materials
  • Manage annual program onboarding process including scheduling of meetings, response tracking and coordination of all sign-on details
  • Oversee program budget and billing cadence, must be accountable for relevant costs related to vendor marketing activities within brand and paid media
  • Identify areas of opportunities to maintain innovative programming and uphold best-in-class execution, and develop new opportunities to continue to evolve and strengthen program year over year
  • Concept, manage, and execute relevant store events that pair back to existing vendor programming
  • Plan both small and large-scale events to support the growing store fleet across the US and Canada, supporting relevant store teams from concept to execution
  • Maintain and develop relationships with key internal cross-functional partners such as merchants, store managers, creatives, and more to ensure expectations are met and exceeded

What you’ll bring to the table…

  • Experiential, full-funnel marketing and ability to identify opportunities to activate marketing strategies beyond traditional media
  • Identify opportunities to exceed expectations, from small tasks to large, multi-store events
  • Demonstrated ability to help grow a program; executing strategy, formulating marketing plans, project managing, analyzing results and coordinating ongoing optimizations and operations
  • Proven track record for obtaining business results through the development of effective internal relationships across multiple business functions
  • Highly collaborative and flexible team player
  • Interest and knowledge of kitchen, culinary, home lifestyle

We’d love to hear from you if you have…

  • 4 years of relevant marketing experience; Retail Industry experience is a plus
  • Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience
  • Experience managing client relationships
  • Event planning experience is a plus, but not required. Must have a demonstrated interest in event planning and execution
  • Strong project management skills - able to manage multiple projects at a given time
  • Excellent interpersonal communication skills, includes presentation, cultivate meaningful relationships with internal/external partners
  • Strong analytical skills; comfortable distilling data into insights/optimization opportunities
  • Strong attention to detail


Minimum Starting Rate: $59,000.00 Annually

Up to: $75,000.00 Annually

Pay ranges will be adjusted upward as needed to comply with applicable state and local law. In addition to your salary, based on your role, associates may be eligible for other compensation including bonuses, sales incentives, and long term incentives.
Job ID 2025-22862 Date posted 08/03/2025 Position Type Full-Time

Our commitment to our associates is of the utmost importance. One of the reasons the company attracts such a diverse group of associates is that we offer a full menu of benefits that are relevant to their lives, both on and off the job. We are proud to offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package to support eligible part time and full time associates and their families, including:

Many of these benefits begin on day one, and extend to eligible dependents. To learn more about available benefits please click https://jobs.crateandbarrel.com/benefits

Euromarket Designs, Inc., which does business as Crate and Barrel and CB2, will be referred to as “the Company”. The Company is deeply committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please contact the location you are applying to here and ask to speak with a manager regarding the nature of your request.

The Company is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all positions without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

The Company participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the US.

State / City Compliance: The Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal history, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Job Applicant Privacy: For details about how the Company collects and uses your personal information, please see our Job Applicant Privacy & Communications Notice.

Questions? Please reach out to careers@crateandbarrel.com

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