Head of Strategic Partners Emea

At a Glance:
The Head of Strategic Partners - EMEA is a unique and multi-faceted position that plays a pivotal role in connecting the On brand to our EMEA consumers and their communities, in partnership with some of the biggest and best Global sports retailers. The role is also responsible for setting the sales direction and strategy for our Lifestyle (Performance All Day ) and Performance Run category verticals within the EMEA region. The role has a sphere of influence and touch points that spans global markets, functions, and team members at all levels across the Oniverse. You’ll build and lead a high performance team through a strategic, dynamic, consumer / team centric leadership approach.

Your Mission:

- Deliver exceptional leadership to the team by creating a high performance culture where your team can thrive in a supportive work environment.
- Ensure your team is coached, trained and provided with career opportunities through development, while identifying and developing future talents / leaders
- Working cross functionally, coordinating the involvement of On teammates: Happiness Delivery, Operations, Marketing, and management resources (not exhaustive), in order to meet the On performance objectives and the needs of the consumer
- Build and deliver Global Key Account Strategy through a consumer and a multi-channel approach
- Proactively lead a co-created strategic account plan with the Key Accounts that develops a mutual understanding of the consumer and delivers performance objectives, unit / financial targets and strategic initiatives across a 3Y period.
- Plan, prepare and execute seasonal GTM excellence
- Deliver a Key Account digital road maps and build a Digital Joint Business Plan, that drives sales across all country URL’s and is incorporated into the 3YP
- Lead team to analyse and monitor consumer demand, category trends, competitor assortment and identify gaps in current assortment, content & availability, price, out-of-stock rate etc
- Work with US / Asia peers to develop and execute a global governance model to support Brand consistency across all regions
- Connect the On brand to the communities we’re serving and translate the needs of these communities back into the business
- Develop and lead the long term Performance Running and Lifestyle strategy for EMEA that can be translated and executed at market level
- Design and steer the go-to-market plan for key running and lifestyle
- Work with global sales & EU merchandising team on tiering and distribution strategy for all categories
- Set strategy for strategic partnerships, SMUs and collaborations with key running and lifestyle retailers. Steer distribution and monitor delivery of SMUs and collab products
- Partner with regional management team, EU merchandising team and global Performance Run and Lifestyle category team to act on consumer and market needs

Your Story
- +5 years in a leadership position - Excellent leadership skills - ability to empower your team to be the best version of themselves while developing new leaders
- Experience in Commercial / Marketing / Buying & Merchandising / FMCG / Consulting / Digital-Ecommerce-OMNI channel / Brand delivery or Planning environment
- Experience in defining brands through experiences, stories and product through multiple channels and consumer touch points
- An expert in building co-created partnerships through a strategic channel and commercial approach
- Channel, consumer, brand understanding across OMNI channels: digital, e-commerce, B&M
- Strong business acumen, strategic, numerical, analytical and critical problem solving mindset
- Open and self aware - seeks to understand before being understood
- You have a growth mindset to think and deliver beyond the current horizon
- Fluent in English both verbally and written
- Being mobile, live in Switzerland or are open to the idea to relocate to Zurich

What we offer

We offer a dynamic, challenging and sportive environment that has been ranked as the ‘fastest growing sports company’ of its time. With offices across the globe, we are an international team who is hungry to innovate and build something incredible. We foster an active environment where each individual thrives for excellence and can achieve their full potential. This is where your work matters, you’re hands-on and your team members are amongst the very best in their respective disciplines and fields.

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