Retail Media Partnership Manager

Overview:

Retail Media Partnership Manager

Permanent

Up to £60,000 + Pension + BUPA + ShareSave + 6.6 weeks holiday + Hybrid Working

Southampton, Store Support Office

Join us as a Retail Media Partnership Manager and you’ll be a big part of this.

What's the job?:

To identify, recruit and onboard vendors onto Retail Media, acting as a subject matter expert to ensure a seamless onboarding experience and platform migration. Identify and build relationships with key stakeholders to capitalise on investment opportunities and execute the retail media strategy.

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities:

• Deliver vendor recruitment goals and strategy for assigned categories/ brands/ vendors.
• Prioritise vendor prospects to optimise against financial targets.
• Create and lead pitches to potential vendors showcasing the opportunity and potential to work with B&Q.
• Negotiate investment budgets with vendors working with Commercial teams to identify opportunities.
• Manage end to end vendor onboarding, including account set up, platform integrations and training.
• Identify opportunities to optimise vendor onboarding through determining root causes and identifying solutions.
• Develop a thorough understanding of the digital market and retail media, seeking continuous improvement and a strong understanding of industry best practise.
• Influence internal and external stakeholders to drive change and improve vendor retail media.
• Engage and build relationships with vendors to plan both media and promotional activities across the assortment to achieve join financial goals by driving opportunities to maximise investment potential.
• Developing understanding of sub-category dynamics in the market, spotting trends and develop category strategy to grow the vendors business.
• Coordinate with other internal teams to ensure adequate support in areas like commercial, supply chain, finance, digital and marketing; ensure changes in our business create win-win scenarios for B&Q and our vendors.
• Analyse and prepare weekly performance figures for the leadership team, play an active role in weekly and monthly business reviews.
• Work cross-functionally to ensure vendors can run their businesses smoothly and effectively on the platform.

What we need::

Required Skills & Experience:

• Professional experience negotiating with sellers/suppliers and influencing internal and external stakeholders
• Experience growing online sales, marketing, activating categories and driving traffic via merchandising/content
• Innovative problem-solving skills; dissecting root causes of problems and implementing solutions
• Strong business judgment backed by analytical mindset and comfort generating and evaluating various forecasts, metrics, and analyses
• Resilience and attention to detail

What's in it for me?:

As part of a great team, you’ll be valued for who you are. We’re committed to making B&Q more diverse and representative of the communities we serve, where everyone can feel they belong and have equal opportunities. You will have access to a range of networks that represent our colleagues and allies and help us to continue to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business.

We also recognise that wellness means different things to different people, and we want to help colleagues be at their best and feel well by offering a range of benefits to help you. As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award-winning pension scheme, bonus, ShareSave options, 6.6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more!

So we can support you during the application or interview process, please contact recruitment@b-and-q.co.uk for any recruitment adjustments.