Manager, Display & Sales Operations

New York, NY

Wella is a leading hair products company that owns iconic brands like Clairol, OPI. To continue this exciting journey and deliver on our customer promise, we are looking for a hands-on, enthusiastic Display and Sales Operations Manager.

This candidate leads the Retailer strategy enabling the sales organization to achieve their business goals. The ideal candidate has strong attention to detail, keen business acumen, and excellent interpersonal abilities.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Build strong relationships with the Sales organization leading to an in-depth understanding of their retailer, shopper, competition & key focus points to enable development of winning display strategies for Clairol.
Work as part of the Retail Hair Trade Marketing team to serve as a liaison between Sales, Brand Trade Marketing, Local Marketing, Demand planning and Creative on display discussions and to enable field sales sell-in needs.
Work with marketing and sales to translate strategic vision, Innovation plan into display opportunities
Define and plan Display annual forecast, roadmap, calendar, and strategies across our customers
Manage and execute display opportunities, including account setup, organization, and management. Manage Display budget
Ensure display readiness, project tracking, execution, and performance analysis
Collaborate with in-house creative and communications team to test and optimize creative design, including dynamic display
Act as the subject matter expert for cross functional partners, sharing best practices, industry trends, monitoring competitive activity and developing KPI benchmarks
Issue annual US Retail Hair Commercial Readiness. Own Scorecards to global & local cross-functional teams.
Price List Maintenance
Manage Launch Sales Samples for All of Sales

QUALIFICATIONS

You thrive at building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions. You are committed, conscientious and lead with integrity. You recognize the value that different perspectives, cultures bring to an organization. You bring a high level of knowledge and know-how plus creativity and enthusiasm to your work and to everything you do.

Essential:

3+ years’ prior experience in consumer package goods sales / trade marketing environment
Strategic thinking and Strong follow through skills are a must
Bachelor’s degree
Proactive approach – take initiative to do what’s needed for the business
Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams with a customer-focused mindset
Knowledge of hair color category is a plus

EEO OPPORTUNITIES

We offer equal employment opportunity to qualified individuals without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Wella Company with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us at: https://www.wellacompany.com/consumer-affairs

We strongly believe that cultivating a diverse workplace gives a company strength. The combination of unique skills, abilities, experiences and backgrounds creates an environment that produces extraordinary results. EOE Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled.

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