Digital/Online Merchandising Manager (Online Content- Google play/Musi

Digital/Online Merchandising Manager (Online content- Google play/Music/Games/Movies/Apps)

6 months Contract

Salary £25.5/Hour

Role

As a Merchandising Manager in EMEA, you are a self-starter who will ramp up quickly to build and maintain Google Play's merchandising program on handsets, web and tablets. Based on your digital content retailing experience, you will coordinate and launch effective online features and promotions. You bring strong retail instincts, sharp analytical abilities, and impeccable oral and written communication skills.

You possess a high degree of comfort and flexibility when working cross-functionally with product, design, marketing, engineering, and other teams to develop an innovative user experience. You enjoy working both independently and collaboratively to develop new content features and scalable merchandising processes.

You bring a proven ability to prioritize, meet critical deadlines, and take on challenging tasks with enthusiasm and a problem-solving mindset. This is a Full time position based in London, and reporting to the Editor in Chief, EMEA.

Responsibilities

Plan and execute an annual merchandising calendar across all product groups 
Coordinate with internal and external partnerships teams to develop and launch effective store content and promotions 
Identify and drive co-promotion or cross-promotion opportunities with internal and external partners 
Work cross-functionally to define and implement merchandising tools and processes, and site-wide improvements 
Conduct metrics-based analyses of merchandising campaigns and provide recommendations for enhancing their effectiveness 
Support partner and technical teams to troubleshoot customer-facing issues 
Define pricing for campaigns and offers 
Work with Engineering to ensure all titles in programming plans are ordered and ingested. 
Participate in regular meetings with content partners, in order to identify promotional opportunities 
Maintain excellent partner metadata, curation and hygiene 
Contribute to Google's global merchandising team and its efforts to drive site improvements and innovative features on behalf of users worldwide

Minimum Requirements

BA/BSc required. Advanced degree a plus. 
Extensive experience in an editorial/merchandising role for a mobile or online digital content retail business 
Deep industry and product knowledge in Games, Music, Movies or Books 
Strong editorial and creative skills -- ability to craft messaging and work with design and production resources to drive creative execution 
Strong analytical skills; ability to analyze research or performance data and apply that analysis to optimize merchandising strategy 
Experience working with both external and internal partners on co-promotion or cross-promotion strategies and campaigns 
Knowledge of and experience with online merchandising best practices; ability to advise on strategies and product requirements to enhance platform-level merchandising capabilities. 
Ability to work across functions and divisions and deliver measurable results 
High attention to detail, ability to maintain several different projects simultaneously, while creating precise and effective customer-facing