Zuru
Trade Marketing Director
Bentonville | United States · Director
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 39 days ago
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About the role
- We are looking for an exceptional Director of Trade Marketing - U.S. to help define and elevate how ZURU goes to market.
- This is a highly influential commercial leadership role responsible for establishing the strategy, frameworks, operating disciplines, and standards that underpin our U.S. sales organization.
Responsibilities
- Own and continuously elevate ZURU's U.S. 4P strategy across Presence, Price, Place and Promotion, establishing a consistent commercial standard across every retailer and channel.
- Partners with Sales Directors develop channel-specific, category-centric 4P strategies that reflect each channel's shopper, category strategy, competitive environment, and commercial opportunity.
- Create a regular review cadence tassess performance against 4P standards, identify gaps, and drive corrective action.
- Partner with Sales Directors, Commercial, and Finance establish world-class forecasting discipline across the U.S. organization.
- Build standardized forecasting frameworks, processes, assumptions, and review cadences across retailers and channels.
Requirements
- instead, they will help ensure every Sales Director and account team has the strategy, tools, insights, and operating discipline required to win.
- Develop the frameworks, tools, scorecards, and governance required translate the 4Ps from principles immeasurable execution.
- Act as the guardian of commercial excellence, challenging teams where plans or execution fall below the required standard
- Establish frameworks for account planning that clearly articulate where we will play, how we will win, and what must be true deliver the plan.
Skills
- Significant experience within CPG, Toys, Consumer Products, or another high-velocity retail environment.
- Strong forecasting, financial, analytical, and business-planning capabilities.
- Experience translating POS, inventory, distribution, pricing, promotional, and market data into commercial decisions.
- Proven ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders without relying on direct reporting authority.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills with the ability to simplify complex commercial problems.
- Highly accountable, action-oriented, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
- Strong bias toward continuous improvement and raising organizational standards.
Compensation
- Partner with U.S. Sales Directors build robust annual, seasonal, and account-level sales strategies.
Company info
- Position Overview: We are looking for an exceptional Director of Trade Marketing - U.S. to help define and elevate how ZURU goes to market.
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