Shopper Marketing Specialist (Maternity Cover) - Camberley, London or Manchester

Amer Sports is a sporting goods company with internationally recognized brands including Salomon, Arc’teryx, Peak Performance, Atomic and Wilson. Salomon was born in 1947 in the heart of the French Alps and has a commitment to innovative design and passion for mountain sports.

We are looking for a Shopper Marketing Specialist to:

• Be the marketing point of contact for local Key Account, Premium Partners and HQ Retail.
• Deliver customer presentations at key seasonal meetings, clearly conveying the seasonal programmes for activation.
• Understand the shopper journey and the key influencing points to improve the conversion funnel to purchase.
• Cooperate with the Sales team to develop local customer plans, including co-op campaigns.
• Own local Customers Joint Marketing Plans, define and agree seasonal plans and related Shopping Experience Framework implementation & tracking.
• Prepare Account 360 activation seasonal plans with a focus on-line presence.
• Oversee and execute local on-offline shopper marketing programmes and 360 campaigns.
• Execute D2C, Key Account, Premium Partners Customer Marketing Plan according to dedicated toolbox.
• Track Pay for Performance elements for consumer experience in Trade Terms.
• Manage external service suppliers/agencies for branded spaces and campaigns.
• Cooperate with e-tail team and get support on digital activation of local click and brick accounts.
• Implement/coordinate own Retail Marketing actions (BS/ FO/ pop-up openings, window programmes, promo actions etc.).
• Support other trade relevant events such as Trade Shows, Buying Days and Showrooms.
• Produce meaningful reports with clear recommendations and report progress of KPI achievement to Country Marketing Manager & EMEA Teams.
• Cooperate with Salomon HQ/ EMEA Teams and provide feedback on toolboxes.
• Share via the EMEA shopper community best practice examples.

Requirements:

• 3 to 5 years in a Shopper Marketing, Trade Marketing, Customer Marketing, Retail Marketing or Marketing Executive/Marketing Manager role in leading branded consumer goods in FMCG or leading Sporting Goods.
• Experience working directly with wholesale customers, retailer marketing teams and customer accounts.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple customer accounts, stakeholders, projects, budgets and deadlines simultaneously.
• Experience delivering customer activations, events, incentives and integrated marketing campaigns is desirable.
• Relevant education in university and/or business school course work, Bachelor or Master degree in Business with focus on marketing preferred.
• Driving License.
• Understanding of wholesale, own retail, Ecom.
• Understanding of consumer/shopper behaviour.
• Manage complex projects and processes with multiple stakeholders.
• Budget planning and tracking, vendor management.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of brand, marketing & shopper concepts.
• IT Skills: command of Microsoft Office, graphic/design programs are a plus.
• Planning & Organizing, delivering Results & meeting Customer expectations, communication and presentation skills, relating & networking, persuading & influencing, entrepreneurial & commercial thinking.

Contract: Full-time, Fixed-Term Contract (Maternity Cover)

Start Date: November 2026

Location: Our main UK office is based in Camberley; however, we welcome applications from candidates located near our London (Shoreditch) or Manchester locations, with travel to the Camberley office expected approximately once per month.

Hybrid Working: A minimum of two days per week spent either in one of our UK offices/showrooms and/or with customers.

Travel: Regular travel to customer locations across the UK is required, along with occasional evening and weekend work to support activations, events and customer engagements.