Merchandising Project Manager - HIRING ASAP
Start date: ASAP
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Remote
Rate: £250-£300 per day PAYE
Summary
The primary role of the Regional Field Merchandising Project Manager is to ensure that all field merchandising components including fixtures, demo units, graphics and display technologies are operating and functioning properly, as well as maintained to our standards. The role is execution oriented and is focused on supporting the planning, management and execution of large programs and projects across our regional partners. The Regional Field Merchandising Project Coordinator must be comfortable in a fast-paced environment working collaboratively across channel marketing, sales, analytics, and external vendors.
Responsibilities
- Manage XFN and senior leadership updating on results and communications.
- Priorities large volume of projects across thousands of retail doors, most with tight deadlines and extreme complexity, with the guidance of the Regional Field Merchandising Manager
- Manage the day-to-day operations of merchandising maintenance to maximize the compliance level of our fixtures and ensure an optimal customer experience, working with multiple 3rd party vendors and cross functional teams to achieve this.
- Manage the reporting of the results of merchandising maintenance and field execution to internal stakeholders.
- 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 labour operations to drive best in class execution.
- Partner closely with Channel Marketing Managers, Strategic Account Managers, 3rd party labour partners, Analytics and Field Sales team members on a regular basis to execute initiatives with the utmost efficiency and accuracy.
- Act as liaison between regional 3rd party labour partners, fixture display companies, channel marketing managers and field sales on any issues that come up in our retail partners regionally.
- Create, maintain, and enforce processes for all operations regionally in store and with 3rd party labour partners.
- Review instructions and execution for multiple projects simultaneously with a keen eye for detail.
- Process all invoices and work closely with the Regional Field Merchandising Manager to ensure all 3rd party labour projects are on budget and tracked accordingly.
Key Skills
- Consumer electronic experience
- Deployment or managing a display in-store.
- Experience with displays in the retailers such as Curry's, BT EE, 02 in EMEA
Bonus Skills
- Microsoft suite - excel and PowerPoint experience.
- Tableau would be a plus.
- Analytical background - to be able to analyse performance and provide guidance.
- Any other EU language