Senior Manager, Merchandising - Strategy and Operations
We are seeking an exceptional professional to lead Groupon’s Merchandising Operations. The Senior Manager, Merchandising will impact 50M+ consumers across all touch points, including 1.3B weekly emails and push notifications to drive growth of our North America business.
In this position you will optimize getting the right inventory to the right customer with the right message through the right channel at the right time in order to drive total business objective growth across our diverse lines of business - Goods, Getaways, Things To Do, Health & Beauty, Restaurants, Home & Auto, Retail and Coupons. This key merchandising role will drive overall North America asset allocation, calendar management and own Services merchandising campaign execution.
Core Responsibilities:
Partner with Sr. Manager Vertical Merchandising - Strategy & Planning and other stakeholders in order to develop and implement planning process and create asset allocation strategy, campaigns and promotional activity to deliver P&L objectives
Build amazing teams. Focused on the development needs of employees, ensuring collaboration and teamwork. Establish motivating stretch objectives for team members that align with company objectives
Partner with Revenue management to build a data driven decision making framework and process that includes clear data based escalation paths when necessary and minimize need for escalations
Drive clear, transparent communication to all stakeholders regarding trade-offs, scheduling and optimization opportunities
Develop processes and checks and balances to ensure flawless execution of messaging across directly and indirectly managed teams
Manage transparent accountability of delivery for directly and indirectly managed teams, leveraging tools such as SLAs, planning schedules and committed dates
Leverage existing product tools to their maximum business impact and partner with product team to define and prioritize requirements in order to further improve output
Ensure high degrees of collaboration between leaders, dotted line and direct: Merchandising - Strategy & Planning, Marketing, Creative Services, Product & Engineering, and Revenue Management
Own calendar development and ongoing optimization / management
Conduct statistical tests for merchandising optimization in conjunction with Product and Revenue Management
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Business or Marketing or equivalent professional experience
8+ years of relevant experience in E-Commerce, Marketing or Merchandising
Demonstrated success establishing clear directions, setting stretch objectives, distributing workload appropriately
Clear communicator who lays out work in a well-planned and organized manner, maintains two-way dialogue with others on work and results and brings out the best in people
Demonstrated functional and technical knowledge and skills performing at a high level of accomplishment
Experience managing the creative process of others with ability to facilitate effective brainstorming and project how potential ideas may play out in the marketplace
Personal Attributes:
A relentless focus on data-driven decision making
Ability to lead and influence across diverse stakeholder groups
Polished yet scrappy, entrepreneurial, self-starter who can manage multiple projects simultaneously and drive them to completion effectively
Ability to see the “bigger picture” and understand relationships between complex issues when problem solving; anticipates, mitigates, and manages risk to top and bottom line
Strong strategic thinking skills, as well as exceptionally strong communication skills
High impact personality; highly energetic and enthusiastic; hands on management style
Groupon provides a global marketplace where people can buy just about anything, anywhere, anytime. We’re enabling real-time commerce across an expanding range of categories including local businesses, travel destinations, consumer products, and live or lively events. At the same time, we are providing advertising options and tools that merchants can use to grow and manage their businesses. Culturally, we believe that great people make great companies and that starting with the customer and working backward moves us forward. Community matters to us on an internal, local and global scale—it’s fundamental to our company’s growth and to the well-being of the world at large. We also value self-awareness, candor, lunch and WiFi. If we match with you, please apply to join us.