The Global Junior Merchandising Manager will be supporting the Visual Merchandising team and strongly collaborating with Innovation Supplements Marketing Team, kicking of a new journey category internally and externally with Markets and local Customers, in order to drive Category Growth and in-store leadership execution in an OMNI Channel environment.
What are we looking for?
- Degree studies in Marketing, Sales, or equivalents
- First experience in Marketing and/or Sales, ideally in Visual Merchandising or Digital Content is required . Ability in design artworks would be a must
- Need to be agile and able to deliver tangible elements and implement steps to achieve goals
- Proactive working attitude, you can work independently on projects and thereby set priorities .
- Strong team spirit : you will have to collaborate with Supplements team on a day to day base and to ensure your presence at their working location.
- Data oriented and analytics mind is needed to measure ROI of our assets deployed across the markets
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to communicate with people from various departments, levels, and markets.
- Fluent in English
What will be your key responsibilities?
You will support our team and markets in a variety of tasks and missions within an omnichannel scope of work with a priority focus :
Supporting the launch and deployment of the New Supplements Category.
- Lead creation and conceptualization of Visual Merchandising guidelines and playbooks for Products Activation instore
- Support development of E-Shopper & Instore expertise (e.g. shopper studies, instore test & learn, eye tracking test)
- Collaborate with Innovation/Activation marketing and Local VM teams to create and maintain merchandising standards (BIC tools, Instore execution guidelines)
- Assist in managing & engaging the Global VM Community and E-content users approvers community
- Play a key role in the development and deployment of merchandising plans through appropriated toolkits, training and presentation vehicles
- Monitoring and assessing the ongoing VM & E-Merchandising budget : forecasting forthcoming expenses aligned with marketing and VM plans
- Defining KPI’s and appropriated process to track down results and organizing forums to share insights and data after deployment in markets
- Ensuring Internal communication to the global teams and markets showcasing both our new assets and their efficiency. Sharing our activities updates during markets forum.
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
