Manager, Revenue Management (Trade Investment Optimization)

Manager, Revenue Management (Trade Investment Optimization) – 1-year maternity cover (fixed-term contract)

Manager, Revenue Management (Trade Investment Optimization) – 1-year maternity cover (fixed-term contract)

Apply locations London Billund time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id 0000023237

Job Description

Do you have the commercial acumen to improve our business and collaborate with leaders across the LEGO markets? Do you want to drive commercial effectiveness by guiding commercial investments, enabling change and balancing short-and long-term goals!

If you join us… “You will get tremendous exposure, be able to build a broad network across our markets and really drive value for The LEGO Group” says Johannes Faisst, Director of Revenue Management.

This position is offered on a 12-month fixed-term contract to cover maternity leave.

Core Responsibilities

As manager, revenue management (trade investment optimization), you will have a central impact for driving effective resource spent on customers. Specifically, you’ll:

1. Engage with our sales teams to support yearly direction setting on trade investment as part of the Customer Business Planning process.
2. Support on our journey to Trade Investment Optimization from global to local and its governance.
3. Maintain the global promotion guidelines and adjust to the latest strategy.
4. Drive your own projects within RM&P, such as developing an insight driven fact-based promotion strategy.

In all these, you will be supported by a team of commercial specialists.

Challenges and Opportunities:

In this role you will have a significant impact on defining LEGO’s strategic choices on where and how to invest. You’ll need to balance short-and long-term goals, continuously say a breadth of our commercial situation, challenges and industry best practice to drive fact-based discussions about the challenges and opportunities in the markets with our commercial leaders.

You need to be able to engage in dialogues with senior stakeholders and through collaboration seek solutions that implies direction and builds consensus on how we sharpen our commercial capabilities. Ultimately, we would expect you to transform conclusions into action plans, standard processes and guidelines.

Play your part in our team succeeding

You will join our Revenue Management team within Global Commercial Development at our headquarters in London or Billund. Here, you will work alongside 7 colleagues whose purpose is to drive balanced growth, by optimizing commercial momentum through: defining our strategic choices on where to play and driving commercial effectiveness in our customer investments by defining how to win.

Do you have what it takes?

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

1. Proven experience from an FMCG company or retailer. Alternatively, a background from management consulting with practical knowledge from working with revenue management cases with similar scope.
2. A strong commercial attitude and experience within a revenue management, commercial perfection, strategy, finance, or similar function.
3. Strong analytical skills, proven understanding of commercial & strategic trade-offs.
4. Good strategic orientation with the ability to take a comprehensive perspective seeing the bigger picture and understanding the complexities of a business operating on a global scale.
5. Ambitions and ability to grow a solid network in a global setting that you can use to influence and define terms that favor company needs.
6. Sophisticated analytical skills and ability to work seamlessly with MS Excel and PowerPoint.
7. Solid communication abilities in English.

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:

1. Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
2. Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
3. 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.
4. Colleague Discount – We know you’ll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
5. Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you’ll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
6. 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.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. For all candidates, if you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

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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About Us

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. Our founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen made his first wooden toy in 1932. He persevered against the odds until his business was a success. Constantly innovating, never compromising. Building, rebuilding, and striving for the best. It is this resilience and permanent sense of renewal that drives us forward. We are never still. We will always be creating, inventing, and having fun. Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”

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