Customer Marketing Manager

Job title: Customer Marketing Manager EMEA

Department: Marketing

Location: Delta Park

GLS: P04

Working hours: Monday – Friday, Full-Time

A brighter future awaits you

CooperVision is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of soft contact lenses with a presence in over 100 countries. Being part of CooperVision means helping improve the way people see each day. It’s more than making contact lenses, it’s about giving lens wearers freedom and confidence to move about their daily lives. We’re all about bright futures – for our people and those who wear our contact lenses.

Job summary – What to expect:

As a Customer Marketing Manager in our EMEA Marketing team, you will be responsible for creating and embedding contact lens category awareness, consideration and retention activation campaigns and add-value product toolkits to improve our Customer Value Proposition and Market Share. Your responsibilities will include:

• Partnering cross-functionally within the EMEA region and market partners (primarily Customer Marketing and Category Insights) to deliver insight-led category campaigns that talk to our strategic category vision activation platforms.
• Working with external agencies to design and build creative platforms for category campaigns (brand agnostic), building off the available regional platforms.
• Creating innovative approaches to reach the target audience, with limited budget, to bring activation ideas to support market partner uptake and the embedding of the category campaigns across the region
• Evolving the platform, leading the added-value solutions framework messaging architecture and mapping out the long-term vision of the role of added-value services within the EMEA commercial organization.
• Working closely with the EMEA Director of Professional Affairs and the EMEA Commercial Operations Director to feed in initiatives to the added-value services framework.
• Partnering with the Head of Sales Effectiveness Myopia to develop Myopia-focused KAM/Field Sales toolkits that support the regional Customer Marketeers and their partners from Sales and Professional Affairs (CBT teams) to improve their specific Myopia customer-facing skills.
• Ensuring that training material /frame working JBP guides and templates are developed and easy to access.
• Understanding and embedding the best and most efficient way to drive cross regional/global collaboration on myopia topics with Customer Marketeers/Insight managers across the EMEA region.
• Creating a strategic mapping of the action plan by country to highlight the ‘customer/category job to be done for Myopia’ in each and how EMEA Customer Marketing can support our customer teams to get there.

A full job description is available upon request.

About you:

We are looking for someone with:

• Proven experience in marketing and or customer marketing. Sales experience would also be beneficial and e-commerce experience would be specifically beneficial.
• The ability to analyze data, turn them into insights/implications and make strategic recommendations to senior leadership team with a vision, clear rationale and resulting road maps.
• Evidence of working with external retailers at a global and retail level, specifically e-commerce in nature.
• Strong analytical and financial projection skills.
• Demonstrated core leadership skills, including the ability to listen, manage, influence, motivate, and lead diverse, remote, and cross-functional teams internally and possibly including external participants.
• External agency management and budget responsibility.
• Excellent presentation skills, including excellent writing/editing skills.
• Excellent marketing skills, including strategy, planning, analysis, marketing, program management, promotion, development, market research, product life cycle management etc.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills – written and verbal, in English.
• Strong computer skills – Office suite.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Aspirations for additional responsibility within organization.

Experience & Education:

Required

• Minimum of 10 (preferred 10 – 15 years’ commercial experience) to include a mix of Key Account Management, Customer/Shopper Marketing, and/or Category Management
• Experience in leading projects and delivering results / specific actions.
• Experience working with multinational accounts/chains in a B2B or B2B2C scenario.
• Experience in developing joint business plans with customers that drove business results.
• Experience in interpreting data to create commercial insights and using them to build marketing campaigns.
• Operational and regional experience working with different markets/cultures.
• Excellent project management skills and real-life experience in leading cross-functional teams.

Preferred

• E-commerce experience would be beneficial.
• Language skills of at least one further EU language are preferable but not essential.

What we offer:

You’ll receive competitive compensation and a fantastic benefits package including; car allowance, bonus, private medical insurance, 25 days holiday, pension scheme, healthcare cover, life assurance, access to our Wellness Platform to support you in mental health and wellbeing, a discounted contact lens scheme and much more!

We are committed to our employees’ personal and professional development and offer extensive training to support your career growth and help every individual to reach their full potential. To help us achieve our goals, we’ll give you everything you need to help you achieve yours.

We also provide access to LinkedIn Learning to help you develop in your career and grow with CooperVision.

What you can expect:

As a CooperVision employee, you’ll be welcomed into a diverse and progressive global business. We appreciate how important fostering a diverse and inclusive culture is and how different perspectives add value and contribute to our success. With our CooperPride, African Descent, Woman’s Impact Network and Mind Body and Wellbeing Employee Resource Groups, we offer opportunities for employees to learn and grow within an inclusive and safe space.

If you like what you see, take the first step towards your Brighter Future and apply today! All suitably qualified applicants will receive equal consideration and opportunities from CooperVision.

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