Wisdomleaf - Merchandiser - Market Growth (2-7 yrs)
Main responsibilities and duties:
B2B marketing
- Provides adhoc analysis and applies this to current trading environment to assist sales in acquiring new business.
- Works closely with sales and design teams to create enticing collateral for sales negotiations.
Gap Analysis & Lead Generation
- Provides direction to sales team on gaps in the business and chases these through, holding the team to account in securing incremental business.
- Provides strategic leads for sales team to use to acquire new business.
- Analyses competitors and makes commercial judgements, applying findings to improve the business.
- Works with the product team on automating processes on gap analysis and acquiring data from competitor sites.
- Strategises new business opportunities.
- Analyses key structures that work well for the E-commerce company's business and provides feedback to roll out successes across the business.
- Keeps up to date with market trends and uses this knowledge to inform business decisions.
Team Management
- Manages Merchandising administrators and provides guidance and support.
- Leads, motivates, and manages a team effectively.
Technical Skills required:
- BCom/BBA/MBA or previous experience in a relevant sector
- Proficiency in Microsoft tools (e.g. excel)
- Highly skilled with PowerPoint and Excel
- Ability to analyse data sets in order to arrive at logical conclusions
- Experience in tools such as SQL and Power Bi is useful but not essential
Soft Skills required:
- Ability to prioritise and multitask, responding to ad-hoc data requests whilst taking care of ongoing tasks / projects
- Proactively challenges the status quo to grow the business
- Confident in dealing with senior stakeholders across the business
- Analytical and innovative mindset
- Attention to detail
- Strong communication
- Commercial Acumen
- Presentation skills
- Experience leading a team