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Are you a kid at heart looking to build a career with a leading global children's toy, entertainment and digital gaming company?
At Spin Master, our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity and innovation is a great part of what has made us an industry leader. How do we stay ahead of the pack? By hiring the best and brightest minds—and that’s why we want you!
Spin Master is a leading global children's entertainment company, creating exceptional play experiences through it’s three creative centres: Toys, Entertainment and Digital Games. With distribution in over 100 countries, Spin Master is best known for award-winning brands PAW Patrol®, Bakugan®, Kinetic Sand®, Air Hogs®, Hatchimals®, Rubik’s Cube® and GUND®, and is the global toy licensee for other popular properties.
What will you work on?
To identify and communicate trends, inefficiencies and opportunities to Management, Sales & Marketing with the aim to actively deliver continuous improvement that supports the business in accomplishing its KPI’s.
How will you create impact?
- To be the principal interface between Sales, Marketing, Supply/ Demand Planning and Order Processing teams, dealing with any situations that arise.
- Proactively analyze and interpret various data sets to identify new opportunities and insights to drive performance.
- To ensure the timely preparation of information for internal & external meetings or previews.
Principal Tasks:
- Sales & Marketing Functions
- Engaging with Sales & Marketing teams to understand and maintain focus on their analytical needs, including identifying critical metrics and KPIs, to deliver actionable insights to relevant decision-makers.
- Create best-practice reports, dashboards, graphs, and visualizations based on critical metrics (KPIs) to fit departmental needs.
- To ensure that the teams are aware of relevant stock, marketing, or promotional opportunities as relevant to the business.
- Compile and maintain documentation and ad hoc account procedures e.g., Season’s listings.
- Stock Control & Samples
- To provide support and enable communication between Supply Planning, Order Processing, and the Sales Team.
- To monitor the feasibility of forecasts, particularly during Global, EU & UK allocations, through the development of automated processes, detailed Retailer analysis and demand management.
- Analyzing sales out and stock incoming data to assist with planned intakes processes.
- Design business processes to improve productivity e.g., stock management.
- Forecasting & Future Planning
- To take a primary role in Consensus (monthly forecast meeting), including but not limited to: Actionable notation, reviewing forecast accuracy, tracking trends and changes over time, data cleansing and influencing decision making.
- Take the lead on new data procedures and tools, and where necessary provide training for users.
- Meetings
- Preparation for meetings as required:
- Analysing patterns and trends within data to ‘tell a story’.
- Prepare reports/ presentations for internal and external audiences using business analytics reporting tools.
- Internal – Sales & Marketing, Weekly Supply Reviews, Excess & Obsolete, Shipped & Open etc.
- Benchmarking and Improvements
- Evaluate internal systems for efficiency, problems, and inaccuracies, developing and maintaining protocols for improvement.
What are your skills and experience?
- Educated minimum to A’ Level standard.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in similar role (FMCG or Toy industry preferred).
- Additional Analytical, Project Management or Mathematical qualifications an asset.
- Proven analytical skills; including data interpretation, evaluation, analysis, and visualizations.
- Customer driven approach to working within a collaborative, team-oriented environment.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to talk and present to a range of audiences, sometimes acting as a “translator” between relevant parties.
- Proficiency in MS Office software (with advanced expertise in Excel a requirement), SAP, Power BI, Sales Force (or similar CRM tool) beneficial.
- Ability to work accurately and with high attention to detail, even under pressure, on multiple projects within the timeframe.
- Ability to create and maintain business presentations, Excel documents and data sources.
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This job posting is tied to an open vacancy.
What you can expect from us:
Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.
What’s it like to work here?
Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.
Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.
Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at JobsEU@spinmaster.com and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.
We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.