Retail Development Manager, Consumer Products

4 settimane fa

Milano Marittima, Italia Mattel A tempo pieno

Unlock Your Potential at Mattel

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Retail Development Manager to join our Consumer Products team in Italy or Spain. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for managing retail business relationships, delivering a retail-first mindset, and driving top licensing partners as per our growth strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage retail strategy and campaigns across the Mattel portfolio, building retail calendars and activations.
  • Assist the Head of Consumer Products to manage the Consumer Products Marketing strategy, working with Brand marketing and retail marketing to develop franchise-first retail and marketing campaigns.
  • Manage Mattel's Consumer Products retail initiatives and execute against pre-existing programs.
  • Maintain and grow retail relationships, focusing on all categories.
  • Represent Mattel at trade events and presentations where required.
  • Act as a point of contact and represent Mattel Consumer Products retail for key retailers/buyers.
  • Present and sell in brands to retail to support the work of category managers and licensees.
  • Manage all existing retail relations, across pitching, presenting, contact management, and strategy.
  • Deliver the retail strategy and drive these relationships with Consumer Products programs, working with the Mattel Sales teams to deliver best-in-class programs.
  • Assist in delivering detailed joint business plans for top 6 retail partners, including retail calendars and activation plans.
  • Present retail plans to top licensing partners.
  • Conduct regular 1-1 meetings, arrange quarterly business reviews, bi-annual top-to-tops, and track activations.
  • Support the category team to deliver and ensure detailed joint Italy marketing plans (per top country) per partner, including licensee investment aligned with Mattel Consumer Products goals, and ensure marketing support for top items.

New Business:

  • Support the category team to research, identify, and pitch new category opportunities and prospective clients.
  • Attend trade fairs or category-specific shows.

Strategy:

  • Support the Head of Consumer Products on key strategies.
  • Analyze the market with SWOT, gaps, opportunities, category priorities.
  • Research, identify, and pitch new category opportunities and prospective clients.
  • Keep current with changing trends and competition.
  • Implement marketing and promotional strategies in liaison with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Gather and share category best practice from across the EMEA region with local teams.
  • Help find innovative ways to grow the business.
  • Manage the extension of local deals into additional EMEA countries.
  • Gather and share category best practice from across the EMEA region with local teams.
  • Prepare brand pitch and marketing presentations across Mattel's IP portfolio of brands.

What We're Looking For:

  • Demonstrated a growth mindset by staying curious and continuously learning, embracing challenges, and improving themselves.
  • Solid licensing experience/industry experience.
  • Strong understanding of licensing and retail.
  • High-level understanding of business objectives, related to marketing/brand management.
  • Strong negotiation and commercial skills.
  • Strategy and ability to drive vision.
  • Expert presenting and ability to build compelling stories in PowerPoint.
  • Strong communication – internal and external in a matrix org.
  • Business and financial acumen – profit-driven, forecasting, analyze, and stat-focused.
  • Fluent English is required, and Spanish and/or Italian is preferred.
  • Effective project management skills.

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At Mattel, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

How We Work:

  • We collaborate: Being a part of Mattel means being part of one team with shared values and common goals. Every person counts, and working closely together always brings better results. Partnership is our process, and our collective capabilities are our superpower.
  • We innovate: At Mattel, we always aim to find new and better ways to create innovative products and experiences. No matter where you work in the organization, you can always make a difference and have real impact. We welcome new ideas and value new initiatives that challenge conventional thinking.
  • We execute: We are a performance-driven company. We strive for excellence and are focused on pursuing best-in-class outcomes. We believe in accountability and ownership and know that our people are at their best when they are empowered to create and deliver results.

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