Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
Define, create and lead category consumer facing activities at every retail & digital consumer touchpoint, across all sales channels, with a special focus on driving Visual Merchandising excellenceResponsible for creating a cohesive and exceptional consumer experience to generate traffic, sales & conversion, and driving brand credibility through our key categories by working closely with the channel & activation teams in the 6 SEA countries: Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia & Indonesia and our regional team in Emerging Markets.
Key Responsibilities
- Omni-Channel Marketingplan& strategies for SEA
- Serve as the counterpart for Emerging Markets for all topics related to SEA countries
- Oversee the marketplace and integrate into one strategy in line with the overall company strategy
- Support expansion plans with new store openings, key city & and new products/category launches through in-store communication, visual merchandising & activation
- Drive and initiate exciting hyper local consumer-relevanty activations on store level in cooperation with Brand Communications, Category management, Sports Marketing and channel teams in the cluster and in the countries
- CreateAccountMarketingplans & calendars for thezone’s top accountsin close collaboration with Sales, BU, Go-to Marketteams
- Own Omni-Channel marketing budgets (Marketing & Sales working budget) to ensure investment decisions on strategy as well as monitor ROI
- Lead the delivery of appropriate channel activation sell-in tools at Sales Launch period, to support brand presentations to accounts during sell-in
- Lead Membership program integration into DTC channel, drive proactively acquisition of new members by always-on communication and creating unique and premium members experience
- Build a strategic framework with ISC & VM agencies and ways of working
- Feedback to EM on performance of concepts and on toolbox readiness and local needs
- Share best practices & learnings with Emerging Markets and key stakeolders
- 3 people team leadership and strategic guidance
- Inspire, lead and drive a performance culture within the team & countries
Key Relationships:
- EM, SEA & Country Brand Team
- EM, SEA & Country Channel Teams including store teams
- WHS & Franchise partners
KPIs:
- Net sales
- Market share
- Sell through/Sell out
- Traffic/Conversion
- Digital Share of search & Share of voice
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Strong channel marketing background with VM experience online & offline
- Understanding of the full marketing mix (advertising, events, sponsorship, retail) with a major brand or retailer (sporting goods industry prefered)
- Budget Management and resource maximization
- Communication skills to drive direction & toolkits to stakeholders
- Experience in Cluster role & country role a plus
- Strong negotiation skills, strong networker
- Consumer and customer knowledge
- Passion for the sports industry
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- ~7+ years working experience
- Experience mostly in Retail Marketing and VM, while Sales experience is appreciated
- ~3+ years of experience in managing people
- Strong people management skills and proven track record in commercial achievements
- Digital capabilities and experience a plus
- Fluent English (local language from an SEA country a plus)