Merchandising Manager - Middle East (EMEA) English/Classic Arabic Requ

Merchandising Manager - Middle East (EMEA)
Languages: English + Classic Arabic Required
Written test in Arabic required

6 Month contract based in London

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 communications