Marketing Manager, Trade Activations

2 Months ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

The Marketing Manager, Trade Activations is responsible for managing supply chain activities and overseeing launches for Pop Vinyl, Bitty Pop, Loungefly and Softlines across Funko EMEA. This includes ensuring supply, customer fulfillment, and achieving key milestones. This role involves collaborating with various departments, managing critical paths, and ensuring brand consistency. The Marketing Manager will also be involved in the creation of strategic plans, retail coordination, analysis of campaigns, and identifying solutions to keep projects on track. The role also includes managing cost analysis and creating tracking documents. This individual will work closely with the Marketing and Sales teams to drive sales through retail partners.
Must have:
  • Proven project management skills.
  • Excellent organizational and time management skills.
  • Attention to detail and initiative.
  • Customer service and communication skills.
  • Proactive self-starter mindset.
  • Team player ethic.
  • Excel skills
Perks:
  • Competitive compensation package with full benefits
  • 401(K) plan with matching contributions
  • Creative work environment

Job Details

ROLE PURPOSE
The Marketing Manager, Trade Activations will be responsible for facilitating supply chain activities and tracking end-to-end launches for Pop Vinyl, Bitty Pop, Loungefly and Softlines into the retail environment across Funko EMEA. They will ensure supply; customer fulfilment and key milestones are met by working with stakeholders within the business & managing the critical path for each launch and project.
 
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
Retail Co-ordination
  • Work closely with the Marketing team and Sales team to deliver against strategic growth categories, new product launches and drive sales with key retail partners through the creation and implementation of a strategic 12-month plan and calendar. 
  • Own, maintain and manage the critical path for trade marketing initiatives such as assortments/POS/CDU's/clipstrip programs and FSDU launches, from initiation to delivery into customer.
  • Use weekly forums to align and collaborate with key stakeholders across departments, including Marketing, Product Development, Sales, Operations, Logistics, Planning, Third Party Suppliers.
  • Work collaboratively with Marketing to ensure brand consistency is delivered across all activations / associated materials.
  • Lead briefs to the design team for trade initiatives and ensure licensor approvals are met in a timely fashion.
  • Manage each initiative (including retailer moments & new product launches) through a critical path working with cross functional teams to ensure product and materials arrive on time into the DC and launches successfully.
  • Communicate out issues, priorities, and project statuses to varying level of team member on a frequent basis, putting forward solutions and problem solving where needed.
  • Collate required demand within Planning lead times and monitor demand continuously.
  • Analysis of retail activations before and after campaigns, providing recommendations to the business to enhance the offering and highlighting how they have contributed to sales growth and achieved sales targets.
  • This includes but is not limited to:
    • Collating required information from multiple sources (customer manuals, PO’s, project briefs, customer FSDU specs
    • Solution focused - Identify any hurdles and find a solution to keep the project on track
    • Ensuring stock timelines are met
    • Liaising with the third-party suppliers to align with scheduled work plans
    • Assess and flag risk of launches with key stakeholders
    • Identify and create different workflow streams for retail activations
    • Suggest and implement process changes in line with evolving business needs
    • Manage the cost analysis to ensure strong ROI for the business
    • Creation of multiple tracking documents
    • Implementation of guides to ensure best in practise on trade activation
    • Creation and upkeep of multiple tracking documents
    • Updating and the improvement of guides to ensure best in practise on trade activation
 
WHAT YOU’LL BRING:
  • Proven project management skills and experience – ideally with an ability to think both rapidly and ‘outside the box’.
  • Excellent organisational and time management skills.
  • Attention to detail with the ability to work on own initiative.
  • Customer service, engagement and communication skills (written and oral).
  • Proactive self-starter, with the ability to juggle many projects using a commercial mindset.
  • Positive, can-do attitude and excellent collaboration skills – able to demonstrate a ‘team player’ ethic.
  • Able to work with large datasets and generate actionable output with good Excel skills.
Funko is an equal opportunity employer. We know that every superhero has a unique origin story and the diversity of these stories enrich what we do. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin or disability status.
 
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by this role holder.  They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required and all employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. 

What Funko Offers
Funko offers a competitive compensation package with full benefits and a 401(K) plan with matching contributions from the company. Most importantly, we offer a creative work environment with people who love pop culture just as much as you do. Can’t wait to gush about your latest binge? Neither can we! Looking for a place where your favorite pop culture t-shirt will receive the compliments it deserves? We know how you feel!

Funko is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.



The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

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