Specialist, Marketing Operations (12 Month Maternity Leave Contract)

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

• Establish and drive alignment on key performance indicators for key product categories.
• Support ranging related systems and processes.
• Co-ordinate key deliverables from all stakeholders in the range preparation process in a timely manner and drive adherence to key milestones for each product season.
• Assist in driving an integrated CTC process by collecting comprehensive CTC packages from all category managers.
• Create Market Sell-In tools (Catalogues, inputs, brief, production, tracking, etc) in close collaboration with the BUs and Countries (budget, development and delivery).

Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting in creation, validation, reporting and alignment of line list.
• Develop understanding and provide support to relevant IT applications
• Ad hoc reporting to support, direct and ensure transparency of all agreed targets and KPI’s.
• Financial reporting to support key milestones
• Analysis of range outputs such as forecasting, Volume, Net Sales, ASP, Margin for Brand Director
• Support in timely and quality handover of seasonal CTC packages to country Marketing and sales teams.
• Coordination for internal handover meetings. Plan and execute Market seasonal launches, including any bespoke launches required for key account.
• Support in reviewing the markets’ customer channel segmentation on a periodic basis to ensure ranges/products are assigned to the most appropriate distribution channels.
• Support in Sample coordination, arrival into warehouse, distribution and reporting and staff sales.
• Analysis of sample costs.  Monitor, analyse and develop a plan to improve the current costs, recovery and process.
• Support in catalogue creation process.  Collecting images, compiling key pages, and distributing within timelines.
• Support the CTC team with systems issues and reporting and any ad hoc requests.

KPIs:

• Adherence to defined timelines, completeness of content delivered.
• Project delivery: agreed timelines, budgets and impact assessed.
• Project / Process KPI’s met in full.

Key Relationships:

• Marketing Operations: Emerging Markets & Pacific.
• CTC Category Managers
• CTC RA
• Warehouse
• Wholesale Sales Operations
• Master Data
• Purchasing and Demand Planning
• DTC Channel Buying Teams
• Finance – IBP

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Analytical, interpretative skills.
• Finance background / qualification.
• Marketing experience.
• High level Excel skills.
• Relationship Building.
• Interpersonal Skills.

Requisite Education & Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors in related field required.
• Industry – Ideally in sporting goods / apparel / fashion / shoes or FMCG.
• Strong quantitative skills – margin analysis / forecasting / budgeting / pricing.
• Good People Skills
• Experience in strategic planning and project / process management.
• Excellent Project Management skills.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• IT skills: Outlook and Word: Basic; Excel and PowerPoint: advanced.