Commercial Planning Specialist, Italy

Job Description
We are thrilled to offer an opportunity for a dynamic individual to contribute to the success of our Western Europe and Italian business. The role guides the Business Unit's Commercial Planning processes and provides valuable insights to support commercial growth, helping us achieve regional and local strategic objectives.

****Please apply with an English CV****

****No relocation support offered for this role****

Core Responsibilities

• Lead the Commercial Planning cycle for the sales team by running monthly processes, establishing clear briefs, and identifying risks and opportunities using CTM (Commercial Target Management) and TPM (Trade Promotion Management) tools and dashboards.
• Support in the development of the Business Unit (BU) annual Integrated Commercial Plan (ICP) with valuable insights and drive its execution through in year monthly processes to reach our commercial ambitions.
• Own the preparation and execution of the Joint Business Planning (JBP) process, ensuring plans remain active throughout the execution year.
• Collaborate with internal partners to ensure all are prepared to achieve strategic priorities, engaged with deployments, and maintaining high data quality in planning tools for effective analysis.
• Coordinate the Sales Assumption Review (SAR) meeting to promote commercially aligned monthly planning.
• Provide skilled support on trade investment digital tools and dashboards to the sales team whilst working with regional and global team on processes and products.
• Lead Customer Pulse and Confidentiality processes end to end to address internal and external needs as well as other ad-hoc commercial deployments.
• Assist in the execution of key RCD priorities in partnership with Revenue Management, Portfolio, and Category teams.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Contribute to our team's success The Western Europe Region is the largest Market Group within the group, encompassing sixteen countries.

Do you have what it takes?

• A proven record of business performance in commercial roles, with a current understanding of the retail and channel landscape across Western Europe, particularly in Italy.
• Experience working in a large international manufacturing organisation or large retail environment, with strong expertise in establishing sales processes and governance practices.
• Proven commercial competence that demonstrate a growth strategy enabling the delivery of structured deployments and effective solutions to sales teams.
• A strategic mentality with the capability to engage and influence multiple partners across various functions and levels.
• An in-depth analytical approach with a high proficiency in systems and tools, with the ability to build efficiencies for others and garner support for initiatives that provide solutions.
• Ability to work 3 days from our office in Milan (2 days from home)

Join the global LEGO family

What's in 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, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based
• Colleague Discount – We know you'll love 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 reached, you'll be 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, role eligibility and frequency with you.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic, and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, 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 Children's Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children's Rights.

Build your career brick by brick at the LEGO Group.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What's in it for you?
Here is what you can 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.

Wellbeing
- We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount
– We know you'll love 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 reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace
- When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

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

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children's Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children's Rights.

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Then make it real.

Join the LEGO team today.