**Company Description** This role is versátil in terms of location; can be based in any of the EU offices that Amazon EMEA Team operates: London (Slough), Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, Barcelona, Amsterdam (Amstelveen), Warsaw.**
**CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER.** It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire, entertain and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.
**The Team**:
With the explosion of growth in eCom and Amazon, Mattel has acted quickly to win in this space by evolving our operating model, team structure and brand proposition to enable us to succeed and be partners of choice for Amazon. As a result, we have seen significant sales growth ahead of the trend in this area!
The Mattel Amazon team operates as a separate Regional Team within Europe, set up in a matrix structure with dedicated Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain and HR functions, located across the region in UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, and Turkiye. In addition to managing Amazon for the region, the team also drives the strategy of marketplaces and acts as a center of excellence for all things eCom.
In line with Amazon’s expansion, we have also evolved from managing 5 European markets to 10, with Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Belgium and Ireland launching over the past years. We have also introduced Marketing team with regional focus on Category Management and Media. This has further supported how we can partner closely with Amazon to leverage our joint strategy and solidify our strong pan-European business relationship.
Over the past few years, our sales organisation has gone through a significant transformation around **centralisation**, and we have formed a new Regional Sales Team that manages Amazon relationships at **EMEA level**. In collaboration with Amazon, we’ve structured our partnership around **key strategic and operational pillars**, covering all EU10 markets.
We always strive to challenge and re-invent our ways of operating to ensure we continue winning in the eCom space - if you’re motivated by this challenge then come and join us!
**Job Description** The Opportunity**:
In this high-impact, customer-facing role, you will lead the Deals pillar for our Amazon EMEA team, overseeing our **promo budget** to lead our **deals and markdown** activities on Amazon, to generate incremental **POS** and increase our market share. As part of the Amazon Regional Sales Team, you will help shape and grow our long-term partnership with Amazon—driving both **revenue** and **profitability** while strengthening the online presence of **Mattel’s iconic brands**.
We’re looking for a driven and ambitious SUPERSTAR to help Mattel reach its goal of being recognized as the #1 Toy Retailer on Amazon!
Think you’ve got what it takes to WIN in this role? Then we want to hear from you!
**What Your Impact Will Be**:
Key Tasks:
- ** Deals Playbook**:create Deals Playbook; give in-depth strategic guidance to the Amazon team based on data and latest insights, guide where and how we should invest based on our brands, shoppers, occasions, product types, product lifecycles, or any other criteria we should consider. Aspire to create a best practice for Mattel.
- ** Deals Process**:continuously improve and simplify the complex deals process involving several teams and spanning over a long period of time. Improve effectiveness and efficiency without sacrificing key performance metrics: POS and ROI.
- ** Deals Calendar**:propose target deals POS and investment levels to support business growth ambitions. Create weekly deals and markdown events calendar, allocate budgets per event, align with Amazon. Manage different scenarios, flag and adjust to deviations, own relevant consumption model inputs. Justify decisions internally and externally.
- ** Deal Event Planning**:for individual events, based on Playbook and annual plan: define targets, core and recommended items. Collaborate with other relevant internal teams. Own SOA / investment negotiations with Amazon. Work very closely with Availability pillar, proactive and reactively. Liaise with media team to ensure an aligned approach.
- ** Deal Event Execution**:own and lead execution of deal events as per deals process, supported by other pillars if needed; closely cooperate with other internal stakeholders for top items, share timely updates, follow Playbook to maximise POS and ROI. Share post-mortem analyses and continuously improve Playbook, processes, and planning.
- ** Markdown**:lead the markdown deal events planning and execution to address unhealthy retail inventory.