Lead strategic components for Flywheel's commercial approach, partnering with Business Development to create tailored pitch strategies and training programs for the sales team.
About Flywheel
Flywheel's suite of digital commerce solutions accelerate growth across all major digital marketplaces for the world's leading brands. We give clients access to near real-time performance measurement and improve sales, share, and profit. With teams across the Americas, Europe and APAC, we offer a career with real impact, endless growth opportunities and the support you need to be the best you can be.
Opportunity
Flywheel is seeking a digital commerce expert to join our team as a Commerce Strategy Director. Our Commerce Strategy team functions as the strategic arm of Flywheel’s commercial team offering a practitioner’s lens to our new business sales approach. Success in this role is directly tied to Flywheel’s revenue growth, but a truly successful candidate will do well through insight-based additions to pitches, a competitive streak externally but highly collaborative internally, and a deep curiosity to discover, create, and teach new solutions and capabilities that help Flywheel win.
What you'll do:
As Commerce Strategy Director, you will lead strategic components of Flywheel’s commercial and new business approach. Some of those core responsibilities include:
- Partnering closely with Flywheel’s Business Development Directors to coordinate pitch strategy and bring bespoke and tailored opportunities to the organization's highest-value opportunities.
- Building and delivering best in class pitch narratives
- Working across Omnicom agencies to identify opportunities for collaboration
- Creating process to more quickly go to market with insights, leveraging or building new tools or connecting between existing capabilities to create something new
- Building organizational capability and develop training and knowledge transfer programs that enable the broader sales organization to execute strategic work independently.
Who you are:
- You bring 5+ years of experience in digital and physical commerce, with direct experience with building strategies that help brands achieve their objectives. Specific practitioner experience required with Amazon search, DSP, AMC, and retail knowledge, with additional depth of knowledge on Walmart and other digital commerce retailers.
- You have a proven track record in fast-paced, results-oriented environments.
- You possess a strategic mindset with the ability to balance immediate client needs with long-term organizational capability building.
- You have exceptional communication skills, including the ability to craft compelling written narratives and deliver persuasive presentations.
- You excel at project management and can juggle multiple workstreams with competing deadlines with obsession over quality and results.
- You are comfortable working across multiple time zones and regional structures, and you bring a global perspective to organizational challenges.
- Experience in omnichannel commerce, media, advertising, or similar industries is strongly preferred.
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Flywheel Commerce Network is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location.
Salary Range
$120,000—$120,000 USD
Working at Flywheel
The Interview Process:We are proud to offer all Flywheelers a competitive rewards package and unparalleled career growth opportunities and a supportive, fun and engaging culture.
- We have office hubs across the globe where team members can go to feel productive, inspired, and connected to others - team members go into Hub Offices 3x a week
- Competitive paid time off, including annual leave plus paid public holidays
- Great learning and development opportunities
- Benefits that help you live your best life
- Parental leave and benefits
- Volunteering opportunities
- If you’re looking to connect with teammates on a topic of inclusion and identity, chances are there’s an ERG for that.
- So you know: The hired candidate will be required to complete a background check
- Learn more about us here: Life at Flywheel
Every role starts the same, an introductory call with someone from our Talent Acquisition team. We will be looking for company and values-fit as well as your professional experience; there may be some technical role-specific questions during this call.
Every role is different after the initial call, but you can expect to meet several people from the team 1:1 and there might be further skill assessments in the form of a Take Home Assignment/Case Study Presentation or Pair Programming/Live Coding exercise depending on the role. In your initial call, we will walk you through exactly what to expect the process to be.
Inclusive WorkforceFlywheel Commerce Network’s goal is to create a culture where all individuals of all backgrounds feel comfortable in bringing their authentic selves to work. We want all people to feel included and empowered to contribute fully to our vision and goals. Flywheel Commerce Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. All applicants will receive fair consideration for employment. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
If you have any accessibility requirements that would make you more comfortable during the application and interview process, please let us know at [email protected] so that we can support you.
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We leverage AI technology to streamline our hiring workflow, though all candidate decisions are made by our Talent Acquisition Team. This position is for an existing vacancy.
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Please note, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from 3rd party Recruitment Firms.
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