Meta AR/VR Job | RL Field Merchandising Manager
Job（岗位）: RL Field Merchandising Manager
Type（岗位类型）: Consumer Marketing
Citys（岗位城市）: Burlingame, CA
Date（发布日期）: 2023-6-20
Summary（岗位介绍）
Meta is looking for a Reality Labs (FRL) Field Merchandising Manager. This role will be responsible for planning, communicating, executing, and reporting on Physical Fixture merchandising programs in NA and EMEA that span across all our existing and future third party retailer partners. This role plays an instrumental part in contributing to the RL vision for our global customers to find, learn and experience RL products through physical retail. It is critical to have experience with merchandising within current retail partners such as: Walmart, Best Buy, Target and more.
The primary role of the RL Field Merchandising Manager is to ensure that all field merchandising components including fixtures, demo units, graphics and display technologies are operating and functioning properly, as well as maintained to our standards. The role is execution oriented and is focused on planning, managing, and executing large programs and projects across our retail partners. The RL Field Merchandising Manager must be comfortable in a fast-paced environment working collaboratively across channel marketing, sales, analytics, and external vendors.
Qualifications（岗位要求）
Experience sharing program/project updates across broad teams and organizations – transparency is key within Meta and the skill to communicate, clear and concise cross functionally at all levels
3+ years of professional experience on either the brand side of retail in-store merchandising or the vendor side of retail in-store merchandising
Experience understanding of the unique operating conditions within each retailer and how that impacts the planning and executing of the initiatives for all product lines
Accuracy and attention to detail with tracking and articulating the intricacies of complex fixture installations
Experience managing relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and external vendors
Experience finding the root cause of issues or gathering the necessary cross-functional members to find that cause or solution to an issue
Experience with navigating various organizational environments where culture and structure vary
Great communicator and superb communication skills
Description（岗位职责）
Prioritize large volume of projects across thousands of retail doors, most with tight deadlines and extreme complexity, with the guidance of the Global Field Merchandising Lead
Partner closely with Channel Marketing Managers, Strategic Account Managers, third party labor partners, Analytics and Field Sales team members on a regular basis to execute initiatives with the utmost efficiency and accuracy
Act as liaison between global third party labor partners, fixture display companies, channel marketing managers and field sales on any issues that come up in our retail partners globally
Assess and make calculated decisions to maximize ROI and efficiency by leveraging partnerships with the internal analytics team
Build highly detailed execution plans for a variety of RL initiatives across all product lines
Create, maintain, and enforce processes for all operations in store and with third party labor partners
Review instructions and execution for multiple projects simultaneously with a keen eye for detail
Understand display fixture production process and installation implementation processes to properly prepare workback schedules and deliverables to share cross functionally both internally and externally
Manage the reporting of the results of the field execution to internal stakeholders
Process all invoices and work closely with the Global Field Merchandising Lead to ensure all third party labor projects are on budget and tracked accordingly
Manage third party labor partner conference calls weekly to track progress ensuring all project deliverables are on track
Additional Requirements（额外要求）
Familiarity with consumer electronics retail partners and their guidelines/processes
Experience within a brand executing in-store initiatives through merchandising
Experience in planning large-scale executions and installations from concept stage through prototype and production stages
Experience in working in a highly cross-functional setting
Experience maintaining budgets and fiscal responsibility
