Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
- To ensure ongoing support of Emerging markets Franchise according to Global best practice standards for realizing profitable market share growth and smooth interaction with all internal departments.
- Act as local “center of expertise” within Franchise for all sales development related topics and drive the implementation of harmonization across the Franchise organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- To support strategic conversations to build our future marketplace plans (Trade Investment; profitability of key accounts) and to implement best practices across Emerging Markets.
- Provide guidance on Trade Investment frameworks to support the business and liaise with the Global team on trade terms approval and exceptions.
- To support and align annual and seasonal Go-to-Market Strategy with all involved functions within Global framework and timeframes.
- Consolidating and assisting with the development of tools, ensuring a consistent usage across EM (e.g., Customer Primary Data, Strategic Account Plans, Account One Pagers)
- To maintain, implement and educate the Cluster Franchise teams on the relevant Global and EM Policies (e.g., Commercial Policy; Trade Term Policy etc.)
- Drive and execute all Global and Market initiatives to standardize and reduce complexity, scaling these developments to all clusters.
- Lead preparation and host Franchise functional meetings and sign offs, supporting with business updates and presentations.
- Drive Policy compliance through policy assessments.
- Identify opportunities to drive the Franchise business performance and drive action plans in alignment with the Franchise teams.
Key Relationships:
- Cluster Franchise stakeholders.
- EM/Global DTC organization
- EM Finance, B&M, Sales Academy, and IT
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Advanced user of MS Office suite of products
- Strong influential skills and understanding of the organization.
- Critical & strategic thinking to identify enhancement areas in line with the business strategy and commercial plans.
- SAP, BI visualization tools (e.g. MicroStrategy, PowerBI) experience is a plus.
- Fluent in English
- Additional languages are an advantage.
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- University degree in business, ideally with retail/sales focus or equivalent professional experience.
- 2-3 years of professional work experience.
- Cross-functional experience ideally with Customer Service/ Operations/ IT/ Sales/ Finance.
- Exposure to sports Retail / Franchise desired.