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Design architectural building components and scalable product systems for ZURU’s residential construction platform. Develop design rules, parametric logic, CAD templates, and product guidelines while balancing aesthetics, functionality, building codes, and manufacturing constraints. Collaborate with design, engineering, software, and manufacturing teams to take concepts through production, improve manufacturability, and streamline the design-to-production process.

Leads ZURU’s North American omni-channel retail marketing across Toys and Edge. Owns shopper marketing, commercial retail media, retailer relationships, budgets, measurement, in-store activation, digital shelf strategy, and retailer planning across Walmart, Target, Costco, and grocery and drug partners. Manages the omni team, partners with global media leaders and sales, integrates marketing into joint business plans, and feeds North American shopper insights into global brand strategy and product development.

Own category strategy for Walmart’s Exploratory, Plush, and Blasters toy categories. Analyze POS, syndicated, shopper, and competitive data to guide assortment, line reviews, modulars, planograms, seasonal planning, and omnichannel execution. Build dashboards, lead retailer walk-throughs and store visits, influence Walmart buyers with vendor-neutral recommendations, and maintain confidentiality between category-advisor data and ZURU’s commercial teams.

Leads ZURU’s U.S. trade marketing and commercial operating system across Presence, Price, Place, and Promotion. Builds account-planning, forecasting, category analytics, scorecard, governance, and execution frameworks for Sales teams. Partners with Sales, Finance, Commercial, Category Management, and Analytics to improve retailer strategies, forecast accuracy, promotional planning, launches, and commercial performance. Coaches senior sales leaders, identifies capability gaps, and drives consistent, insight-led execution across U.S. retail channels.

Analyze retailer sales, SKU, inventory, forecasting, product assortment, market trends, and product-level profitability. Prepare forecasts, P&L statements, POS reports, and ad hoc analyses, presenting insights to internal teams and retail customers. Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Commercial, Buyers, and Inventory Planning teams. Identify process inefficiencies, document best practices, and implement scalable improvements.

Leads collaborative planning, forecasting, replenishment, and S&OP activities with major retail customers. The role develops inventory strategies, custom reports, dashboards, and KPI insights; manages replenishment, promotional events, e-commerce fulfillment, inventory transfers, item maintenance, and supply chain disruptions. It also supports joint business planning, in-stock performance, and corrective actions across retailers, 3PLs, warehouses, and stores.

Lead ZURU's commercial partnership with Target, owning P&L, assortment strategy, negotiations, promotional planning, and cross-functional alignment to drive growth across Pet, Household, Confectionary, and emerging categories. Use syndicated retail data to shape category strategy, optimize supply and demand, and scale brand launches while maintaining retailer relationships and execution excellence.

Manage and grow ZURU's business at Target through joint business planning, buyer relationship management, in-store and online execution, and cross-functional collaboration to maximize shelf share, distribution, and P&L performance.

Lead CPFR collaboration with retailers to optimize inventory, own custom replenishment reporting, drive S&OP cycles, manage supply chain operations and promotional inventory execution, and support e-commerce fulfillment strategies.

Support data collection, cleaning, and preliminary analysis. Write and run SQL queries, use statistical tools and Python, produce visualizations, document methods, troubleshoot analytics tools, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver actionable insights.