Megan Hahn

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Outdoor, Health & Wellness Marketing Expert
Seattle | US

Skills

  • Direct Mail
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Market Research
  • Advertising
  • Catalogs
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Interests

Fitness and nutrition
Environmental awareness and advocacy for conservation
Skiing
Surfing
outdoor brand
Mountain Biking
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Industries

Lifestyle
Outdoor
Snow
Surf
Yoga
Health & Fitness
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In my own words

Megan

Passionate and mission-driven Marketing Leader with a proven track record of building global brands and transforming consumer behavior across wellness, nutrition, and outdoor lifestyle sectors.

A data-informed storyteller and strategic planner, adept at driving rapid growth through innovative, high- impact campaigns that span digital, experiential, and omnichannel platforms. Known for connecting consumers with meaningful brands, fostering engagement, and championing health-forward initiatives. A compassionate team builder and mentor who cultivates collaborative, high-performing teams and ensures alignment between culture, brand, and purpose.

Trajectory

Feb 2025 — Now
Marketing and Nutrition Program Manager · Positively Groundfish
● Lead the development of health-focused consumer awareness campaigns for a diverse non-profit organization to shift U.S. consumption toward more sustainable, locally sourced options. ● Convert scientific and retail data into compelling, consumer-facing messaging to increase awareness and influence behavior. Direct full-funnel execution across digital, social, PR, events, and influencer partnerships, aligning creative with mission-driven goals. ● Translate campaign initiatives into KPI-driven marketing execution that blends performance metrics with compelling storytelling to drive engagement, trial, and long-term behavior change. ● Oversee content strategy and performance marketing across web, email, social, and digital platforms. Leverage retail data, partner insights, and audience research to refine messaging, optimize targeting, and ensure product-market fit. Use data-informed decision-making to continually improve reach, engagement, and conversion.
Mar 2018 — Feb 2025
Founder + President · Megan Hahn Wellness
● Design and lead business planning for nutrition programs to educate clientele within award-winning luxury resorts, including Rancho Valencia and The Bridges; actively engage and secure new clients through traditional and non-traditional media, including public relations, blogs, newsletters, social media, and influencers to build community engagement. ● Drive sales performance with a digital straetgy to optimize the business plan and budget for continued promotion and investment and ensure profitability through new program design and enhanced initiatives. ● Conduct market research and competitive analysis using A/B testing to identify industry trends and develop effective strategies for pursuing new business opportunities.
Apr 2018 — Oct 2018
Marketing Consultant · Peachjar
SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS: ------------------------------------------ ◆ Developed and distributed marketing content, including email, blog posts, landing pages, infographics, and press releases to support the execution of the marketing campaign strategy. ◆ Created and implemented strategic B2B marketing initiatives, including lead nurturing campaigns and email segmentation; measured KPIs to identify opportunities for campaign optimization. ◆ Constructed new product brand architecture, built pricing models, and executed go-to-market strategies aligned with KPIs. ◆ Drove the marketing strategy for the program provider audience, the largest revenue source for Peachjar’s business. ◆ Measured and analyzed engagement and KPI’s to identify opportunities for campaign optimization. ◆ Managed the webinar series to ensure the delivery of compelling and relevant marketing content.
Jan 2015 — Mar 2018
Marketing Consultant · Lucky Nutrition
SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS: ------------------------------------------ ◆ Served as a strategic business consultant for nutrition and fitness companies providing direction to small business and franchise owners ◆ Developed and executed strategic marketing plan for new product line for a nutrition company that fueled 22% increase in sales through creation of new marketing collateral, social media outreach, advertising, and trade shows. ◆ Managed plan for brand architecture for a small retail company; lead creative direction, analyzed competitive environment, built pricing models, and go-to-market strategy for a new brand launch. ◆ Created detailed market analysis for a leading fitness equipment company to identify competitive landscape, build forecast for product and service offerings, set and monitor KPI’s.
Dec 2012 — Feb 2015
Campaign Marketing Manager · REI
SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS: ------------------------------------------ ◆ Led digitally-driven campaigns; managed the email schedules and campaign assets, including graphics and copy, set KPIs for click-through-rate, open rate, conversions, and deliverability based upon trend analysis. ◆ Developed and implemented the annual marketing calendar to outline future strategic plans with overarching themes and adaptive stories for REI retail and co-branded marketing campaigns and conducted a post-mortem analysis with results, analysis, and recommendations for remaining marketing campaigns and long-term goals upon campaign completion. ◆ Designed creative campaign briefs to develop product stories, digital content, and implementation plan for REI marketing channels.
Apr 2012 — Dec 2012
Marketing Manager, Planning · Petco
SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS: ------------------------------------------ ◆ Created marketing strategies by developing annual marketing calendar to communicate quarterly and seasonal marketing campaigns with internal stakeholders and vendor partners for program support. Leveraged data-driven insights to allocate marketing resources that align with brand initiatives. ◆ Analyzed plans for traditional and non-traditional media to profitably support merchant and company initiatives, including new store openings, market expansions, and portfolio brand growth. ◆ Responsible for allocating space by division across a multitude of media vehicles, including circulars, in-store collateral and fixtures, broadcast advertising, e-mail and social media. ◆ Lead and supervised direct report to execute campaign strategies and communicate marketing calendar updates. ◆ Provided growth direction and managed employee performance.
Jul 2009 — Apr 2012
Marketing Manager Broadcast Advertising · Office Depot
SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS: ------------------------------------------ ◆ Launched national television campaign to reinvent brand image in 2010. ◆ Lead broadcast strategy and manage relationships with top global full service agencies for media buys, creative campaigns, added value vendor partnerships and emerging media. ◆ Managed production plan for television commercial shoots and $30M broadcast advertising budget. ◆ Created strategic briefs, monitored competitive media to analyze buy strategies throughout the industry, and analyzed CPP and CPM to evaluate efficiencies per market. ◆ Cultivated strategy for online videos to communicate new brand campaign, increase conversion rates and drive traffic to officedepot.com.
Sep 2007 — Jul 2009
Sr. Analyst · Office Depot
SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS: ------------------------------------------ ◆ Managed analysis for marketing programs, such as weekly print inserts, broadcast advertising, emerging media tests, loyalty programs and direct mail to make strategic decisions based on results. ◆ Created reporting system to increase effectiveness of weekly insert offer strategy and reduce costs by 20%. ◆ Collaborated with product marketing team, merchants, and business partners to proactively identify, develop and drive long-term strategic initiatives to increase sales margins by 10%.
Jul 2006 — Sep 2007
Sr. Marketing Analyst Direct Mail · Office Depot
SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS: ------------------------------------------ ◆ Managed marketing segmentation strategy, tactical execution and analysis for national direct mail campaigns. ◆ Created and maintained monthly budget for direct mail and managed relationships with prospecting vendors. ◆ Presented results on campaign performance, including: response rate, incremental sales and variance to forecast.
May 2005 — May 2006
Marketing Planner · Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS: ------------------------------------------ ◆ Identified market successes in lead product features for Williams-Sonoma catalog to create cross-channel marketing campaigns and increase conversion rates. ◆ Executed planning, implementation and analysis for all direct to consumer campaigns by forecasting list response, average order value, and sales per catalog for each list segment. ◆ Analyzed multi-channel segment performance, including profit calculations by campaign, catalog version testing and campaign modeling. ◆ Coordinated with list brokers and facilitate prospect list ordering and analysis. ◆ Delivered presentations to executive teams on seasonal campaign performance to recommend improvements on design, execution, and analysis of testing for more effective marketing programs. ◆ Supervised expense tracking through invoice verification and approval, maintained expense histories and performed variance analysis on actual expenses.
Apr 2004 — Apr 2005
Marketing Analyst · Farm Progress
SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS: ------------------------------------------ ◆ Performed market research and analysis, managed list consolidation and created proprietary merge/purge methodology program utilizing SAS statistical software. ◆ Managed development of annual brand survey, data mining, and data analysis. ◆ Enhanced outside client files with demographic data and maintained market intelligence database to examine, analyze and compile data for competitive analysis. ◆ Implemented circulation strategy to include monthly advertising sales objectives.

Activity

Projects

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Nutrition Wellness Event with MeganHahnWellness

Education history

University of Illinois at Chicago logo

University of Illinois at Chicago

Bachelor of Science

Flagler College logo

Flagler College

B.S.

UC San Diego Extension logo

UC San Diego Extension

| 2019 - 2019

Connections

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Hospitality & Outdoor Marketing Manager | Multi-Channel Campaigns, Event Strategy & Brand Growth
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