Regional Field Merchandising Manager, EMEA

Meta Reality Labs is looking for a Regional Field Merchandising Manager based in our London office, reporting to the Global Field Merchandising Manager in the US. This person will be responsible for planning, communicating, executing, and reporting on Global Physical Fixture merchandising programs across all our existing and future 3rd party retailer partners within the European region. 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 essential to have experience with merchandising within current retail partners such as: Dixons, Boulanger, Fnac/Darty, MSS and more.The primary role of the Regional 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 global partners. The Regional Field Merchandising Manager must be comfortable in a fast-paced environment working collaboratively across channel marketing, sales, analytics, and external vendors.

• Plan, prioritize, and execute large volume of projects across multiple retailers with tight deadlines
• 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 globally 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 Manager 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

• 3+ years experience on the brand side of retail in-store merchandising or the vendor side of retail in-store merchandising
• Understanding of the unique operating conditions within each retailer and how that impacts the planning and executing of the initiatives for all product lines
• Experience sharing program/project updates across broad teams and organizations - transparency is key within the Meta workplace and the skill to communicate, clear and concise cross functionally at all levels
• 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
• Presenting to and gaining approval from leadership on a regular basis.

• Experience managing consumer electronics merchandising initiatives
• Experience maintaining budgets and fiscal responsibility