Channel Excellence Manager, Italy

We are looking for a commercially skilled data-driven specialist to lead and advance our Channel Excellence agenda across Western Europe.This isa great opportunityto join our newly formed channel structure within our Western European Regional Commercial Development team to play a pivotal role inrealisingour strategic goals and implementing the channel and category management agenda across local customers in Italy to drive consumer sales impact!

Please note:This position will be based in our LEGO Sales Office in Milan andwill follow a hybrid working model with 3 days in the office and up to 2 days remotely. Relocation support is not offered.

Core Responsibilities

Regional Channel Strategy Responsibilities:

• Support the Senior Channel Excellence Managers in building and delivering the new long-term global channel development vision across core and emerging channels.

• Support the Channel Growth Directors in implementing strategies for regional expansion ensuring alignment with the overall Global and Western European growth vision.

• Collaborate with local teams directly and acrossCustomernetworkstoidentifynew market opportunities and drive scalable initiatives across the region.

Project Management:

• Coordinate regional channel excellence shopper and customer projects ensuringtimelyexecution and alignment with strategic goals

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as Portfolio to drive project and process outcomes and ensure regionalobjectivesare met

• Champion an agile approach for the deployment of project outcomes that have impact with our customers ensuring alignment and implementation.

• Analyseand learn from the latest shopper insights from internal projects across global/ regional/ local teams improving the resonance of customer materials

Regional Network Meeting Support:

• Facilitate regional network collaboration sessions focusing on agenda planning and driving action accountability regionally.

• Play a supporting role to help connect key partners plan andcompleteall withina timelymanner.

• Collaborate across regional and local channel teams to understand successes and failures testand share findings (part of the copy and scale network agenda).

• Focus on the wider teamsannual calendar of process and deployment ensuring channel inputs are delivered in time whilst planning required inputs with in-region Business Units and Regional teams

Play your part in our team succeeding

As a key member of the team this rolewill help drive the Channel Excellence agenda and support the growth of our regional presence.

Do You Have What It Takes

• Proven record in commercial roles with a category and channel linked to strong business performance.

• In-depth knowledge of the retail and channel landscape in Western Europe.

• Experience in a large internationalorganisationwithexpertisein sales processes and customer execution ideally with a regional remit

• Strong commercial competence with the ability to build relationships and convince across levels of seniority collaborating both with internal and external partners.

• A strategic outlook with a pragmatic approach to business challenges applying strong analytical skills where insightsidentifychallenges are turned into actionable plans that impact.

• Strong businessproficiencyinEnglish and Italian.

Join the global LEGO team

Whatsin 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 soyoullhave access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based

• Colleague Discount We knowyoulllove 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 reachedyoullbe 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 roleeligibilityand frequency with you.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to build a diverse dynamic and inclusive culture of play 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 childrenare required totake part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening as a condition of the offer.

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