Duration -12 months
Language needed - English / French fluent
Responsibilities
• Prioritize large volumes of projects across thousands of retail doors, most with tight deadlines and extreme complexity, with guidance from the Merchandising Lead.
• Partner closely with internal and external key partners on a regular basis to align and drive impact and results with the utmost efficiency and accuracy while moving fast.
• Act as liaison between regional 3rd party labor agencies, fixture display companies, channel marketing managers, demo tech team, field sales
• Manage 3rd party labor agencies to execute projects in brick-and-mortar retailers globally to ensure deliverables are met.
• Build highly detailed execution plans for a variety of initiatives across multiple product lines.
• Review instructions and execution for multiple projects simultaneously with a keen eye for detail.
• Understand display fixture production process and installation implementation processes to properly prepare workback schedules and deliverables to share cross functionally both internally and externally.
• Critical to understand various retailer 3rd party labor operations to drive best in class execution.
• Track field execution, including progress and results, and prepare reports for internal stakeholders.
• Analyze demo data, flag potential roadblocks and work with external partners to ensure in store demo compliance.
• Work closely with the Merchandising Lead to align on the strategy and to ensure all 3rd party labor projects are to budget.
Minimum Qualifications
• Full French proficiency
• 5+ years of professional experience on either the brand side of retail in-store merchandising or the vendor side of retail in-store merchandising.
• 5+ years of project management experience
• 3+ years of third-party labor management experience
• Proven ability to understand the unique operating conditions within each retailer and how that impacts the planning and executing of the initiatives for all product lines.
• Must have experience sharing program / project updates across broad teams and organizations
• Extremely high level of accuracy and attention to detail with ability to track and articulate the intricacies of complex fixture installations.
• Experience managing relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and external vendors.
• Must have experience partnering with external stakeholders.
• Excellent at finding the root cause of issues or gathering the necessary cross-functional members to find that cause or solution to an issue.
• Strong interpersonal skills, approachable and flexible.
• Experience with navigating various organizational environments where culture and structure vary.
• Excellent communicator, superb verbal, and written communication.
• Experience with Google G suite and Microsoft suite of software applications.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in planning large-scale executions and installations from concept stage through prototype and production stages.
• Experience working in a highly cross-functional setting.
• Experience maintaining budgets and fiscal responsibility.
• Mobile Carrier and/or Specialty Retailer experience.
• Experience with in-store tech demos or tech in a retail setting