Omnichannel Business Planning Manager

An Omni Channel FMCG children's toy brand are looking for a 6 month temp business planning manager.

Your new company

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

The role of the Promotions team is to create compelling reasons to visit and buy from their branded channels driving demand through an engaging promotions portfolio & robust promotional plans. The promotions team drives the strategy, development and execution of the promotional plan as a key unique selling proposition and strong commercial driving activity while delivering the ultimate brand experience to kids of all ages.

They are a market leader in FMCG toy manufacturing and need someone special to help take their company into their busiest period - Christmas!
This role would start ASAP for a hand over with the current business planner and you should be able to hit the ground running.

Your new role

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• Support the development and delivery of a global promotional plan leading detailed planning in line with the promotions strategy supporting our commercial growth targets.
  
• Develop promotional plans that deliver to both online and offline channels, regional and VIP goals.
  
• Leverage promo performance insights to drive more effective promotions along with optimizing plans to best meet business objectives.
  
• Manage end to end promotional execution for focus regions (EMEA) maintaining close collaboration across the promotions team and key stakeholders
  
• Lead detailed promotional planning
  o Lead detail planning of a global promotional plan inclusive of VIP/channel/ regional needs to meet business goals.
  o Collaborate with multiple local & global stakeholders both within brand's Retail Marketing and the broader brand's Retail organization to identify needs and to support key priorities.
  o Ensure the voice of the shopper is top of mind and map the shopper journey during promotional planning.
  o Participate in activation workshops- providing visibility to the promotional plan, brainstorm ideas, and explore promotional opportunities to meet identified objectives.
  
• Secure a diverse & robust promotional portfolio meeting key business objective.
  o Create project briefs for brick based GWP working with the product development team.
  o Support VIP Program benefits, layering in VIP promotional levers including VIP early access & double point offers.
  o Drive global & local alignment providing detailed timelines for promotion development to our stakeholders.
  o Bring new innovative solutions forward and share learnings/ executions across the team.
  o Support test & learn activities.
  
  
• Lead in year promotional plan communication.
  o Update and distribute weekly promotional updates.
  o Support communication around our major promotions
  o Represent the promotions team in local/regional meetings including local S&OP.
  
  
• Manage end to end promotional execution.
  o Gain a deep understanding of shopper data, insights and promotions effectiveness, to inform the global promotional plans.
  o Lead for local promotional need, response to regional business performance. Work with Multiple stakeholders to refine promotional plans to meet local needs.
  o Collaborate with forecasting team to support forecast submissions.
  o Maintain visibility of promotional inventory, recommend actions to most effectively redeploy excess inventory.
  o Collaborate with the finance team to build knowledge of the financial impact of the promotions that are planned. Learnings to enhance future planning.
  o Manage briefing for all promotional levers including VIP promotions.
  
  What you'll need to succeed
  
  
  
• Relevant promotions management experience for brands with large store networks and an ecommerce channel.
  
  
• Strong strategic mindset and analytical skills; ability to balance between analytical and creative thinking.
  
  
• Experience managing a diversified promotional portfolio with a proven track record delivering demand driving promotional initiatives.
  
  
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills with the ability to build, foster strong relationships with cross-functional and international teams.
  
  
• Well-organized, detail-oriented multi-tasker with excellent written, verbal and visual communication skills
  
  
• Proactive, solution-oriented and positive attitude.
  
  
• Strong project management skills.
  
  
• Solid skills with Microsoft Office suite
  

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