Director, Markets Activation, GMS

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Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

Position summary:

This newly created role, based in Bern, will report to the Director of Strategy & Operations, Global Markets Success. This is a high-profile role that will oversee the activation of our global strategy across key markets, enabling a team of three to realize the rollout of individual initiative playbooks for key markets. This person will develop and foster this new team to serve as the connective tissue between functional areas and across markets, while transferring key findings for each market launch, to achieve our ambitious longer-term growth plans.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Oversee Go-To-Market (GTM) Activations across Global Markets Portfolio: Aligned to our global strategic priorities and the local market opportunities, develop and oversee the team's roll-out of various GTM activations. Provide strategic guidance to the team and key partners to ensure alignment across various launches.
• Develop Scalable, Portfolio-Wide Activations Strategy, Built on Playbook & Launch Best Practices: Establish a standardized approach for GTM activations, based on individual market and playbook takeaways, to serve as a basis for the teams to use as a means to accelerate time-to-market.
• Own Senior Stakeholder Communications, Management & Reporting: Own executive-level deliverables for senior leadership updates and other readouts, effectively communicating strategic insights and progress.
• Lead & Develop a Team: Manage, mentor, and develop a team of three Markets Activation Leads responsible for individual market launches. Provide guidance, support, and oversight to ensure their success and growth.

About you

• Demonstrated success in effectively planning and implementing various complex projects within a large organization. A consulting / strategy background is helpful.
• Proven record of delivery and an ability to excel in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, being able to influence and collaborate across teams and at senior leadership levels.
• Exceptional communication skills in verbal and written (both long form and slides), quickly able to gain trust and confidence with people at all levels, including executive leadership.
• Proven experience in leading and developing a team
• Achieved consistent success in managing metrics that greatly influenced business performance and demonstrated strong analytical abilities.
• Extensive experience with Project, Program management & delivery, with a focus on multi-market initiatives.
• Proficient at expressing complex challenges, blockers, and problems and partnering with different team members to devise strategic solutions.
• Highly organized, detailed problem solver who thrives on being efficient and driving scalable processes.
• Extensive exposure to an ecommerce/marketplaces environment is highly advantageous.
• Strong excel (modeling, pivot tables, advanced functions) and Google Slides skills, with the ability to tell a compelling story at various levels; Comfortable and hands-on with data, analytics, and modeling to drive strategic decisions.