Apac Travel Retail Channel Lead

**Location**

Singapore, Central Singapore

**Job Type**

Permanent

**Salary**

$11,500 - $17,000 Per Month

**Date Posted**

44 minutes ago

Additional Details

**Job ID**

142597

**Job Views**

1

**Job Description**:
Roles & Responsibilities

Would you want to join a winning team and help increase our Travel Retail (TR) footprint?
Help us unlock the potential of the TR channel in APAC and enable brand recruitment across the region

Core Responsibilities
Channel development
- Drive Joint Business Planning with top customers & top-to-top meetings (BU GM participation optional), and input into APAC ICP
- Be the owner of SBU P&L including co-developing activation calendar with key customers, management of budgets (e.g. TI, marketing, distribution)
- Collaborate with global TR team to support/request expansion including market entry & prioritization
- Lead 1 Travel Retail Specialist
- Drive stronger governance of the channel to ensure clarity of execution (e.g. data, in-store photos)
- Periodic negotiations on trading terms with customers
- Establish & refine ways-of-working of the new SBU to minimize adding complexity to BU SEA’s processes

Key account management
- Flow of Goods planning on partner operational level, with buyer or merchandiser (TBD Excel or via CTM/TPM sales tools)
- Plan activations with partners (inventory, promotional mechanics, marketing requirements), including mitigation planning
- Reporting and analysis - data submissions, provide consolidated outcomes & commentary in SEA monthly BPR
- Periodic visit to airports to ensure strong in-store execution & understanding of market landscape
- Administration - filling up of customer forms, customer claims check, work with global on data uploads, chase payments vs. credit limits
- Preparation of Trade Show (typically May in SG), join Trade Show in France (October)

Play your part in our team succeeding
Travel Retail is responsible for developing the LEGO brand positioning and actual foot print in major travel hubs across the world. Our key focus area is on major airports.

Do you have what it takes?- A minimum of 8- 10 years of Account management/Sales experience, preferably gained from FMCG / the travel channel
- Proven experience in APAC markets
- Ability to travel between 30 and 50 days a year within primarily APAC
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with all levels of internal and external organizations
- Excellent organisational skills and open to work in complex situations/with ambiguity
- Strong communication skills
- Confidence in communicating in English - written and verbal to communicate with global stakeholders
- Demonstrates an end to end thinking - Flexible and agile
- Great teammate
- Comfort with ambiguity - given the level of change in APAC to address the TR opportunity; Able to identify gaps and define processes and issue points to address/mitigate accordingly

Join the global LEGO® team
What’s in it for you? Here are some of what to expect:

- Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
- Insurances - All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
- Wellness - We want you to be your best self, so you will have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based
- Colleague Discount - We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
- Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached, you’ll be rewarded through our global bonus scheme.
- Your workplace - Our offices will be your primary workplace with flexibility to work from home during your working week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model, role eligibility and frequency with you.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued, and they belong.

The LEGO Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Build your career brick by brick at the LEGO Group.

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