Amazon Europe Assistant Category Manager

Join Spin Master: Build Your Career with a Leading Global Children's Toy, Entertainment and Digital Gaming Company

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!

Location for this position is flexible and can be based in one of Spin Master's offices in Europe.

Spin Master is a leading global children's entertainment company, creating exceptional play experiences through its 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?

As the AMZ Europe Assistant Category Manager, you will support the Category Managers to create and execute the merchandising strategy for Spin Master’s brands on Amazon UK EU platforms. You will collaborate with the Marketing leads in UK EU to deliver the GPS objectives for our brands.

Your focus is to deliver best in class Amazon experiences across each EU country site including UK, partnering with all local teams to drive digital shelf excellence. This involves driving traffic and conversion for our catalogue portfolio and optimizing aspects of the digital shelf including availability, placement, content compliance and review sentiment. As part of the AMZ EU Category Marketing Team, you will utilise the technology and tools available and help direct the business with key decisions.

How will you create impact?

• Provide support to develop, standardise, and execute the best-in-class e-commerce executions in collaboration with colleagues from sales, marketing and eCOE teams
• Work collaboratively with your immediate AMZ EU team as well as internal stakeholders in the markets (brand, sales, marketing, finance).
• Manage and organize the priority catalogue portfolio across Amazon Europe
• Drive and review content compliance strategy for new and existing brands/products
• Leverage digital tools to analyse and review sentiment for new launches
• Manage and align Amazon EU/UK marketing budget and plan/share best practice across all brands for peak seasons, events and launches throughout the year
• Partner with our new AMZ Retail Media Agency across EU/UK to measure effectiveness and return on investment with objective of driving both organic and sponsored search and sales
• Assist the teams in optimizing product listings using expertise of keyword research, digital marketing, SEM, online display advertising, and SEO from inception of goal to full execution
• Collaborate and partner with our licensors to build and drive brand execution on site

What are your skills and experience?

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing or related eCommerce field required; MBA an asset
• Minimum 2+ years prior experience in eCommerce merchandising/specialist, preferably with a toy, retail or consumer products company
• Success with implementing and maintaining Digital/eCommerce systems
• Knowledge in Supply Chain, Trade Marketing, or Merchandising
• Advanced knowledge of the Amazon.com ecosystem and flywheel
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite
• Strong data analytics, problem-solving, reporting, business modeling forecasting skills
• Manage and organize the priority catalogue portfolio across Amazon Europe
• Working knowledge of Power BI is an asset
• Working knowledge of retail media (Amazon Advertising) is an asset
• Technical experience in digital shelf tools/Amazon automation is an asset
• Technical experience with digital shelf tools (Profitero, Keepa, CommerceIQ) is an asset
• Strong project management abilities; prioritizing and handling multiple projects simultaneously
• Capable of formulating high-level strategies and defining specific actions
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
• Able to handle, organize and analyze large amounts of data
• Ability to adapt to changing tech reporting systems
• Ability to interpret data and draw conclusions
• Strong presentation and collaborative skills with all internal and external teams

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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.

• Growth and Career Opportunities
• Flexible Work Hours
• Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
• Comprehensive Benefits
• Other fun Perks!

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.

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