Mid Level Advertising Manager Jobs
Mid level advertising manager jobs go to professionals ready to own campaigns end to end, guide junior team members, and shape messaging strategy with minimal oversight. Roles run across Retail, Technology & Software, and Marketing & Advertising, with a mix of on-site, remote, and hybrid settings, and employers like Taboola, Sephora, and Amazon hiring at this level now.
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Job ID: 297116
Location Name: CA-FSC SF Off (0174)
Address: 350 Mission St, 20th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States (US)
Job Type: Full Time
Position Type: Regular
Job Function: Real Estate/Prop Dev
Work Location: San Francisco - Hybrid
Your safety matters to us
All official Sephora US recruitment emails will come from a @sephora.com email address. We will never interview via text, ask you to download unfamiliar software, or request sensitive personal information such as your SSN or banking details via email, phone, or text. Learn more about Sephora on our official careers site inside-sephora.com, and search for verified US roles at join.sephora.com.
Belong to Something Beautiful
At Sephora, beauty is about feeling seen, valued, and empowered, individually and collectively. It is connecting deeply with others, celebrating diversity and inclusivity, unlocking your potential, and making a difference every day. Together, we belong to something beautiful.
Your Role at Sephora:
Ready for a career glow up? As Strategic Sourcing Manager, Marketing & Advertising, you’ll be managing the end-to-end strategic sourcing process, process compliance, and Sephora goals in diversity, risk, and sustainability. The work you do will impact beauty, as you develop annual and multi-year sourcing plans in partnership with business stakeholders, aligning initiatives to business priorities, budget cycles, savings targets, and supplier roadmaps. You’ll be part of a team that’s united in beauty, supported by those who are equally passionate about delivering incredible service and value to internal stakeholders.
- End-to-End Strategic Sourcing: Lead all aspects of the strategic sourcing process for assigned projects—including profiling the supply market, partnering with stakeholders to identify business requirements, leading RFI/X events using sourcing technology, gaining consensus on awards, conducting supplier negotiations, finalizing contracts, and handing awarded business off to business partners.
- Business Partner Support: Support business partners with sourcing objectives and supplier needs by leveraging the Intake-to-Contract process, assisting in contract negotiations for relevant categories, acting as the lead for assigned contracts, and summarizing negotiation results in deal summaries for senior leader approval.
- Category Strategy & Roadmaps: Build comprehensive category strategies across all assigned areas, understanding supply markets to optimize supplier capabilities at national and regional levels, and build strategic sourcing roadmaps in collaboration with key stakeholders.
- Cross-Departmental Spend Optimization: Identify and optimize leverage spend opportunities across departments for both the US and Canada, Sephora Global, and LVMH to reduce total costs for the broader business while supporting the Senior Manager across categories- including Creative agencies, Influencer marketing, Events, Production, Branded goods, and Media—while identifying leverage spend opportunities to reduce total costs.
What You’ll Bring:
- 5+ years of proven success across end-to-end strategic sourcing engagements.
- 5+ years of sourcing experience with marketing categories across goods and services, preferably with a North American retail organization.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business preferred (or equivalent experience).
- Advanced analytics, Excel, PowerPoint presentation, data visualization, and sourcing tools skills.
- Hands-on experience using employee collaboration, procure-to-pay, vendor management, and contract lifecycle management software.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder influence skills, with the ability to manage projects end-to-end in a fast-paced environment.
What You’ll Get:
The annual base salary range for this position is $135,000.00 - $151,000.00 The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include, as applicable, the applicant’s qualifications for the position; years of relevant experience; specific and unique skills; level of education attained; certifications or other professional licenses held; other legitimate, non-discriminatory business factors specific to the position; and the geographic location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will perform the job. Individuals employed in this position may also be eligible to earn bonuses. This job will be posted for a minimum of five days.
- Caring Community. You’ll collaborate with teammates who are equally passionate about innovating and driving the industry forward – together, united in beauty.
- Fulfilling Path. Your career transformation starts here, with opportunities that will challenge, stretch and develop your skills.
- Meaningful Work. As you make an impact on beauty, you’ll feel and see the positive change (consumer, industry, and social) that your individual voice is a part of.
Rewards as Unique as You:
Some benefits have eligibility requirements and may depend on job classification and length of employment.
- Health . Choose a healthcare plan to fit you and your family’s needs with medical, dental, and vision coverage. Sephora also fully covers our employees’ disability and life insurance.
- Wealth . We offer a competitive 401k with 4% match as well as FSA and HSA programs. We also offer a Student Debt Retirement plan, where your student loan payments qualify to earn the 401k match from Sephora.
- Balance . You’ll be empowered to find the perfect blend of work/life balance that actually works for you with PTO, flexibility, protected leave, and more.
- Growth . Career growth is built into every role, with access to training, development, and tuition reimbursement.
- Perks . Think you’ve tried it all? Enjoy a 30% discount on all merchandise/services, opportunities for free product or “gratis,” and flash sale discounts on LVMH brand products.
- Support . Join a team that truly cares – with free mental health and financial coaching resources with 24/7 access to Modern Health and Financial Finesse. Plus, volunteer and donation matching.
Sephora values a diverse and inclusive workplace and considers all applicants without regard to sex, pregnancy, race, color, national origin, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), age, religion, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, disability, or any other protected category. Sephora is committed to providing reasonable accommodation ta applicants with disabilities or other medical conditions.
Sephora will consider all qualified applicants, including those with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws, including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.
Join Us and Belong to Something Beautiful
Job ID: 297116
Location Name: CA-FSC SF Off (0174)
Address: 350 Mission St, 20th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States (US)
Job Type: Full Time
Position Type: Regular
Job Function: Real Estate/Prop Dev
Work Location: San Francisco - Hybrid
Your safety matters to us
All official Sephora US recruitment emails will come from a @sephora.com email address. We will never interview via text, ask you to download unfamiliar software, or request sensitive personal information such as your SSN or banking details via email, phone, or text. Learn more about Sephora on our official careers site inside-sephora.com, and search for verified US roles at join.sephora.com.
Belong to Something Beautiful
At Sephora, beauty is about feeling seen, valued, and empowered, individually and collectively. It is connecting deeply with others, celebrating diversity and inclusivity, unlocking your potential, and making a difference every day. Together, we belong to something beautiful.
Your Role at Sephora:
Ready for a career glow up? As Strategic Sourcing Manager, Marketing & Advertising, you’ll be managing the end-to-end strategic sourcing process, process compliance, and Sephora goals in diversity, risk, and sustainability. The work you do will impact beauty, as you develop annual and multi-year sourcing plans in partnership with business stakeholders, aligning initiatives to business priorities, budget cycles, savings targets, and supplier roadmaps. You’ll be part of a team that’s united in beauty, supported by those who are equally passionate about delivering incredible service and value to internal stakeholders.
- End-to-End Strategic Sourcing: Lead all aspects of the strategic sourcing process for assigned projects—including profiling the supply market, partnering with stakeholders to identify business requirements, leading RFI/X events using sourcing technology, gaining consensus on awards, conducting supplier negotiations, finalizing contracts, and handing awarded business off to business partners.
- Business Partner Support: Support business partners with sourcing objectives and supplier needs by leveraging the Intake-to-Contract process, assisting in contract negotiations for relevant categories, acting as the lead for assigned contracts, and summarizing negotiation results in deal summaries for senior leader approval.
- Category Strategy & Roadmaps: Build comprehensive category strategies across all assigned areas, understanding supply markets to optimize supplier capabilities at national and regional levels, and build strategic sourcing roadmaps in collaboration with key stakeholders.
- Cross-Departmental Spend Optimization: Identify and optimize leverage spend opportunities across departments for both the US and Canada, Sephora Global, and LVMH to reduce total costs for the broader business while supporting the Senior Manager across categories- including Creative agencies, Influencer marketing, Events, Production, Branded goods, and Media—while identifying leverage spend opportunities to reduce total costs.
What You’ll Bring:
- 5+ years of proven success across end-to-end strategic sourcing engagements.
- 5+ years of sourcing experience with marketing categories across goods and services, preferably with a North American retail organization.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business preferred (or equivalent experience).
- Advanced analytics, Excel, PowerPoint presentation, data visualization, and sourcing tools skills.
- Hands-on experience using employee collaboration, procure-to-pay, vendor management, and contract lifecycle management software.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder influence skills, with the ability to manage projects end-to-end in a fast-paced environment.
What You’ll Get:
The annual base salary range for this position is $135,000.00 - $151,000.00 The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include, as applicable, the applicant’s qualifications for the position; years of relevant experience; specific and unique skills; level of education attained; certifications or other professional licenses held; other legitimate, non-discriminatory business factors specific to the position; and the geographic location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will perform the job. Individuals employed in this position may also be eligible to earn bonuses. This job will be posted for a minimum of five days.
- Caring Community. You’ll collaborate with teammates who are equally passionate about innovating and driving the industry forward – together, united in beauty.
- Fulfilling Path. Your career transformation starts here, with opportunities that will challenge, stretch and develop your skills.
- Meaningful Work. As you make an impact on beauty, you’ll feel and see the positive change (consumer, industry, and social) that your individual voice is a part of.
Rewards as Unique as You:
Some benefits have eligibility requirements and may depend on job classification and length of employment.
- Health . Choose a healthcare plan to fit you and your family’s needs with medical, dental, and vision coverage. Sephora also fully covers our employees’ disability and life insurance.
- Wealth . We offer a competitive 401k with 4% match as well as FSA and HSA programs. We also offer a Student Debt Retirement plan, where your student loan payments qualify to earn the 401k match from Sephora.
- Balance . You’ll be empowered to find the perfect blend of work/life balance that actually works for you with PTO, flexibility, protected leave, and more.
- Growth . Career growth is built into every role, with access to training, development, and tuition reimbursement.
- Perks . Think you’ve tried it all? Enjoy a 30% discount on all merchandise/services, opportunities for free product or “gratis,” and flash sale discounts on LVMH brand products.
- Support . Join a team that truly cares – with free mental health and financial coaching resources with 24/7 access to Modern Health and Financial Finesse. Plus, volunteer and donation matching.
Sephora values a diverse and inclusive workplace and considers all applicants without regard to sex, pregnancy, race, color, national origin, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), age, religion, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, disability, or any other protected category. Sephora is committed to providing reasonable accommodation ta applicants with disabilities or other medical conditions.
Sephora will consider all qualified applicants, including those with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws, including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.
Join Us and Belong to Something Beautiful
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Mid Level Advertising Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a mid level advertising manager job?
Position yourself around ownership and results. Highlight campaigns you led independently, budgets you managed, and measurable outcomes you drove. Tailor your resume to show strategic thinking alongside execution, not just task completion. Emphasize cross-functional collaboration, client or stakeholder communication, and any specialization you have built in paid media, brand, or creative direction. Concrete performance data makes the strongest case.
Which companies hire mid level advertising managers?
Companies hiring mid level advertising managers right now include Taboola, Sephora, and Amazon, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Hiring at this level comes from a mix of established brands managing large media budgets, agencies running multi-client campaigns, and growth-stage companies building out their first dedicated advertising teams.
Are there remote mid level advertising manager jobs?
Yes, remote and hybrid options are widely available at this level. About 25% of mid level advertising manager openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how much of campaign planning, reporting, and vendor coordination can be done distributed. On-site roles tend to cluster at agencies and companies with in-house creative studios where collaboration is more hands-on.
How do I move up to a mid level advertising manager role?
The path from entry level to mid level is built on expanding ownership over time. Start by taking full responsibility for discrete projects rather than supporting others, then pursue measurable wins you can point to. Developing a specialization, whether in paid search, social advertising, or brand campaigns, accelerates the transition. Demonstrating that you can manage timelines, budgets, and stakeholder expectations independently signals readiness for mid level responsibilities.
Which industries hire the most mid level advertising managers?
Mid Level advertising manager roles concentrate in Retail, Technology & Software, and Marketing & Advertising, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors tend to run high-volume or competitive advertising programs that require managers who can execute independently and optimize across multiple channels without heavy direction from senior leadership.