Senior Manager, Channel Excellence, EUC (m/f/d)

Job Description

We are thrilled to offer an exciting opportunity for a commercially adept and dynamic individual to contribute to the success of our Europe Central (EUC) region as our Senior Manager Channel Excellence driving strategy and execution in collaboration with commercial partners and key in-market retailers. Please apply with an English CV.

****No relocation support offered for this role****

Core Responsibilities

Customer Category Responsibilities:

• Work with the most strategic customers to build substantial relationships aligned to a 3-year category development vision turning shopper insight into action by developing customised category strategies for priority customers to improve the shopper experience.
• Localise projects such as Space Taxonomy and Expansion ensuring insights and initiatives generated drive continuous improvements.
• Be an ambassador for top customer strategy the planning processes as well as building these into the customer plan (e.g. product previews and business planning)
• Guide key customers with ongoing learning through experimentation audience knowledge connected to customer shopper research.
• Support customer expansion utilising regionally prioritised new business opportunities across channels that help equip KAMs to build storylines that attract new business.

Business Unit Channel Responsibilities:

• Develop and communicate internally a clear category deployment implementing category drivers through an agile test-and learn approach to drive adoption of processes such as the assortment optimisation process.
• Partner with trade marketing to implement an audience testing roadmap that is aligned to customer initiatives.
• Collaborate with Global Insights other markets and channels to take shopper experience findings and equip commercial teams.

Play your part in our team succeeding!

The role sits within a newly formed channel structure with the Regional Commercial Development team playing a pivotal role in realising our strategic goals and driving the channel and retail excellence agenda across key local customers to enhance sustainable consumer sales impact.

Do you have what it takes

• Proven track record in commercial roles with a channel and category focus with strong business performance.
• In-depth knowledge of the retail and channel landscape in the local markets.
• Experience in a large international organization ideally with a regional or multi-market remit with expertise in sales processes and customer execution
• Strong commercial competence with the ability to form relationships and influence across levels of seniority.
• Effective collaboration skills with internal and external partners.
• Strategic proactive and pragmatic approach to seeing opportunities with a strong analytical mentality turning insights into actionable plans.
• An ability to work 3 days from our office in Munich (2 days from home)
• Fluent in German as well as proficient in English both written and spoken

Join the global LEGO family!

Whats in it for you Here are some of what to expect:

• Family Care Leave We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellness We want you to be your best self so youll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based
• Colleague Discount We know youll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached youll be rewarded through our global bonus scheme.
• Your workplace Our offices will be your primary workplace with flexibility to work from home during your working week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model role eligibility and frequency with you.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group where everyone feels safe valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race colour religion sex national origin sexual orientation disability or gender identity.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Childrens Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Childrens Rights.

Build your career brick by brick at the LEGO Group.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time including prior to any advertised closing date. So if youre interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Whats in it for you

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount We know youll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible youll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team youll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group where everyone feels safe valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeksto encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex gender identity or expression race/ethnicity national origin sexual orientation disability age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Childrens Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Childrens Rights.

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Then make it real.

Join the LEGO team today.