Job description
Senior Manager of Retail Strategy Role Overview:
The Director of International Retail Strategy will manage all aspects of the business related to his/her retail channel. This includes Retail Marketing, Account Management, and oversight of account planning.
Senior Manager of Retail Strategy Roles and Responsibilities:
Retail Marketing
• Develop account-specific goals and strategies and align the organization around them
• Work with cross-functional teams to create extensive 360 retail marketing plans for all key launches
• Collaborate with brand marketing and product development teams to identify white space and ideate on product opportunities
• Leverage all marketing, content, social, and creative assets for sales maximization
• Manage creative process collaborating early on with account to ensure brand/account alignment
• Responsible for yearly sampling strategy and procurement
• Conduct competitive and consumer data analysis leveraging learnings to impact marketing tactics and go to market strategies
Account Management
• Build Strong Relationships with Retailer and serve as the key point of contact
• Manage communication with merchant and marketing teams collaborating on visual merchandising, promotional strategies, retailer support plans, and dotcom activity
• Analyze business on an ongoing basis and provide weekly sales analysis updates internally and to the field
• Ongoing negotiations with an account on inventory and support activity
• Inventory management: Partner on OTB/RTV/WOS position
Planning
• Oversee coordinator on all administrative planning activity
• Manage relationships with account planners and serve as the key point of contact
• Communicate to retailer planners all merchandising/marketing/assortment plans that impact stock
• Build bottom-up retail and shipments forecast by account and track progress towards a plan on an ongoing basis
• Completing and updating all administrative forms/systems
• Manage retailer assortment files and reconcile against an assortment
• Manage execution/shipping of all sampling programs
Senior Manager of Retail Strategy Requirements:
• Experience working with one or more of the following retailers preferred: Mecca, Cult Beauty, Douglas, Amazon, QVC, Target, Sephora
• Bachelor’s degree and minimum 5 years experience in retail sales management
• Willing and able to travel overnight
Senior Manager of Retail Strategy Key Qualifications:
• Ability to establish strong relationships with buying groups
• Lovers of everything skincare encouraged to apply
• Self-motivated, results-oriented, creative thinker
• Highly motivated and resourceful
• The idea of being part of a high potential startup excites you!
