Customer Marketing, Snr Associate

We have opportunities for a Customer Marketing Senior Associate in our Warsaw office.

Summary:

SC Johnson is a fifth-generation family company built on a spirit of adventure and winning the right way. We have been leading with purpose for over 130 years, building top brands such as Pledge®, Duck®, Mr. Muscle®, Raid®, Glade®, Kiwi®, OFF!®, Ziploc® and more, in virtually every country. Through these household names, we are making a positive difference to the world around us. But we only succeed with the combined vitality and strength of our 13,000 people who we truly value and support in their pursuit of individual and shared goals.

Having brand responsibility, you will be working with the Associate Manager to ensure best in class execution of the customer marketing programs, in order to meet business objectives in terms of sales, profit and share. Key to this will be working closely with the local sales team to identify customer priorities and insights.

This is NOT a consumer marketing (he/she will not be developing new products or advertising campaign) job but rather a trade marketing job.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supports the Associate Manager, Customer Marketing in ensuring Trade Bundles, Base and New Products news developed by the Platform are appropriately and timely executed consistent with agreed parameters with the Cluster.

• Supports the local Sales Team in presenting launch plans to major customers and securing customer alignment on activation plans

• Executes Special Pack plans consistent with agreed guidelines and principles

• Supports sales in preparing the annual business plans for key strategic partners

• Works with category management and sales to ensure all distribution and display initiatives are timely and properly executed for the defined category.

• Ensure excellence in sales execution at POS

• Supports the Associate Manager in the development of the promotional guidelines, equity deployment and monitoring.

• Develop, execute and monitor promotions (pre and post) in collaboration with Sales and Finance.

• Support the Sales Team with the execution of pricing plans

• For the defined category - tracks distribution performance, competitive activities, and inventory (with PS) management.

Required Skills / Experience / Competencies:

• 3/4 years’ experience in a mix of Trade/Customer Marketing, brand marketing or Sales;

• Graduate degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing or similar

• Fluent in Polish and English, both written and oral

• Strong Presentation Skills

• Solid analytical skills with experience using market data (e.g. AC Nielsen)

• Strong communicator and team player, able to build relationships at all levels and across function in an ambiguous environment

• Previous experience in FMCG or in a Retailer is a plus

Preferred Skills / Experience / Competencies:

• Ability to manage for results with high degree of initiative and speed

• Self-starter acting with integrity and speed

• Organisational and planning skills with the ability to multi-task and prioritize

• Strong strategic thinking and drive