Essential Duties
Market Strategy & Leadership
Lead the development and execution of comprehensive marketing strategies across mature and NSO Barry’s markets.
Responsibilities include:
- Owning local-level growth plans aligned to company and studio goals
- Identifying macro and micro trends impacting studio performance and proactively develop strategies
- Prioritizing markets, studios, and initiatives based on performance data and growth potential
- Acting as the primary marketing partner to studio leadership and HQ marketing
- Establishing best practices and scalable frameworks for mature market growth
Client Acquisition Strategy
Own and evolve the acquisition strategy to consistently drive high-quality new clients into mature studios.
Responsibilities include:
- Developing multi-channel local acquisition strategies (partnerships, events, community, digital)
- Identifying and scaling high-performing acquisition channels and partnerships
- Overseeing corporate, community, and influencer partnership pipelines
- Collaborating with the Corporate Team on targeting, messaging, and campaign optimization
- Ensuring strong first-class experience alignment to maximize conversion
Client Engagement & Lifecycle Growth
Drive strategies that increase client frequency, retention, and lifetime value.
Responsibilities include:
- Designing and implementing initiatives that increase visit frequency and attendance
- Partnering with Lifecycle/Tier 1 Campaign teams to localize national campaigns for maximum impact
- Developing retention-driving programming, challenges, and community-based experiences
- Creating templates & playbooks that studios can use to consistently engage their client base
- Develop and refine demographic-specific strategies and playbooks, grounded in deep analysis of client behavior and insights, that can be effectively scaled and replicated across markets.
- Identifying opportunities to deepen brand and loyalty within mature markets
Lapsed Client Reactivation Strategy
Own the strategy and execution for re-engaging lapsed clients across mature markets.
Responsibilities include:
- Defining lapsed client segmentation and prioritization strategies
- Testing and scaling offers, messaging, and outreach tactics to improve return rates based on studio specific data and habits
- Equipping studio teams with tools and playbooks to support reactivation efforts
- Analyzing reactivation performance and optimizing conversion to repeat attendance
Community Partnerships & Brand Presence
Lead the development of high-impact local partnerships that drive both acquisition and brand equity.
Responsibilities include:
- Building and maintaining strategic relationships with key local businesses, brands, and organizations
- Identifying partnership opportunities that align with Barry’s premium positioning
- Overseeing execution of events, activations, and collaborations at scale
- Ensuring consistent, high-quality brand representation across all local touchpoints
- Creating repeatable partnership models that can be scaled across markets
Cross-Functional Leadership
Act as a key connector between Field, Studio Operations, and Corporate Marketing teams.
Responsibilities include:
- Leading cross-functional planning and alignment for market-level initiatives
- Translating corporate campaigns into effective local execution strategies
- Providing feedback loops from studios to inform broader marketing strategy
- Partnering with Operations to ensure marketing efforts align with in-studio operational protocols
- Driving accountability across stakeholders to deliver against shared goals
KPI Ownership & Performance Management
The Senior Field Marketing Manager is accountable for delivering measurable impact across mature market performance and ensuring marketing initiatives directly contribute to studio growth.
Client Acquisition
- New client first visits and the first timer journey to conversion
- First class to membership conversion rate
- Partnership-driven acquisition
Lapsed Client Reactivation
- Lapsed client reactivation rate
- Campaign conversion performance
Member Frequency & Engagement
- Retention rates and membership churn trends
- Community size and engagement metrics
- Participation in events, challenges, and activations
Studio Utilization
- Class utilization and paid attendance
Company Culture Responsibilities
- Work to uphold Barry’s community and culture standards, and live the company mission, vision, and values daily
- Represent the Barry’s brand within the studio and throughout the fitness community at large.
- Accessing, protecting and maintaining the privacy of employee personnel records, including compensation information, generally and as used in the performance of the duties described above.
Additional Manager-Level Expectations
- Lead, mentor, or indirectly support junior field marketing team members
- Develop playbooks, toolkits, and training resources for studio teams
- Support management of budgets and allocate resources efficiently across markets
- Regularly present performance insights and strategic recommendations to senior leadership
- Continuously test, learn, and scale new marketing approaches to drive incremental growth
Competencies:
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Drives Vision: Talks about future possibilities in a positive way. Creates milestones to rally support behind vision. Articulates the vision in a way everyone can relate to. Creates energy and optimism for the future. Shows personal commitment to the vision.
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Drives Results: Has a strong understanding of KPIs, WIGs and business needs. Persists in accomplishing objectives despite obstacles and setbacks. Has a track record of meeting goals successfully. Pushes self and helps others achieve results.
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Communicates effectively: Is effective in a variety of communication settings. Attentively listens to others. Adjusts communication to fit the audience and the message. Provides timely and helpful information to others across the organization. Encourages the open expression of diverse ideas and opinions.