Analysis & Insight

• Assess industry & market trends
• Understand consumer behaviours, attitudes and motivations.
• Extensive product knowledge in tablets / handsets etc.
• Incorporation of new concepts into marketing strategy

• Create strategic business objectives for consumer and retail marketing.
• Create category planning across all consumer touch points
• Coordinate partner segmentation & prioritization
• Strategically influence assortment & merchandising
• Execution against the product life cycle

Consumer & Retail Marketing Principles

• Develop integrated marketing plans between consumer and retail marketing.
• Ensure positioning & messaging
• Strategic marketing objectives in-store and online
• Measure execution and ROI

• Influence partners with category expertise
• Drive the sales motion across the channels
• Impact & Influence the product business groups
• Drive cross group collaboration

Business Operational Excellence

• Execute against consumer and retail marketing budgets
• Demonstrate creativity and entrepreneurial behaviour
• Evangelize group strategy and direction – internally and externally - by aligning value proposition information with target audience, brand personality, and desired attitude change.
• Monitor the consistency of the product brand attributes and promise across multiple campaigns, across multi fiscal years.

Leadership

• Direct and indirect leadership with outcomes
• Executive presence and leadership
• Influence across boundaries
• Impact and Influence w/o Authority
• Ensure that your Category Managers land and localize the positioning and messaging frameworks for the business group.
• Continually innovate on amplifying the impact and reach of the Category Manager team

• Revenue of category
• Category Profit
• Inventory management
• Space optimization
• Share growth
• Customer experience

Group:

• Revenue, share and profit
• Scorecard metrics
• Customer experience
• Market Attach
• Market Budget management
• Marketing KPIs
• New customer insights
• Partner program creation

• Partner and market insights
• Analysis and data mining to drive insights
• Strategic business planning
• Forward looking and strategic thinking
• Consultative leadership
• Business operational excellence
• New product launch know how (economics, process, program, skills)
• Strong collaboration skills
• Courage/risk taking
• Leading and thriving in ambiguity
• Strong coach and teacher of others

Experiences Required:

• 10+ years relevant consumer experience in Sales/Marketing/Supply Chain Mgmt, ideally from telco, consumer electronics or other devices
• Proven success at business building (business/channel development, entrepreneur, change management)
• Retailer buyer experience and functional depth (marketing, channels, partner-focused)

For more information about this exciting opportunity please contact Donal O'Donoghue with CV and cover letter on dodonoghue@alternatives.ie

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