Sr Manager Trade Marketing & Merchandising

At Hasbro, our mission is to entertain and connect generations of fans through the wonder of storytelling and exhilaration of play. We’re looking for adventurous and curious people who want to explore, experiment, and innovate to come up with the best ideas. Our culture has inspired our diverse team of highly skilled, highly creative, and highly committed individuals for 100 years and we believe the best is yet to come.
 

At Hasbro, we’re changing the face of play and entertainment. We’re looking for people who want to explore, experiment, and innovate to come up with the best ideas. Our culture of community, passion, integrity, creativity, and inclusion has inspired our diverse team of highly skilled, highly creative, and highly committed individuals for 100 years, and we believe the best is yet to come.

Utilizing strategic leadership, strong communication, and problem-solving skills, the Sr. Manager, Trade Merchandising will be accountable for leading a team of three Project Managers in the planning, coordination, and oversight of various Trade Merchandising projects.  This will include temporary, corrugate, and permanent retail displays and various rework projects for Key Retail accounts across the US. In this role, the Sr. Manager will collaborate with diverse multi-functional teams across Hasbro’s internal organization as well as external vendor partners. This position reports to the Sr. Director, Omni Channel Merchandising.  Do you have strong leadership capabilities, project management skills, an analytical mind, and a desire to drive fun at retail? If so, we want to talk to you!

A Day in the Life of a Sr. Manager, Trade Merchandising

• Leading a team of three project managers supporting 35+ retail partners.
• Driving the strategic vision to enhance the in-store Hasbro-branded experience.
• From inception to completion, seeing through Hasbro out-of-aisle merchandising executions. 
• Overseeing, evaluating, and driving efficiencies across a multi-million budget.
• Manage current vendor relationships while onboarding new vendors; foster relationships while driving expectations of deliverables.
• Facilitate cross-functional relationships internally at Hasbro - bridging the gap between upstream development to downstream implementation.
• Lead best-practice sharing within the Global organization driving new learnings and competencies across broader Hasbro teams.
• Work in lockstep with finance to drive benchmarks and guidelines ensuring profitable, sound investment.
• Guide continuous process improvements that boost speed to market and help overcome obstacles.
• Lead the industry - stay abreast of current merchandising trends incorporating innovation into merchandising programs.
• Deliver regular feedback and coaching to drive employee engagement and performance.

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant discipline

• 10+ years of retail/merchandising experience or consumer products experience required.
• Previous experience managing direct reports.
• Expertise in developing world-class, leading-edge merchandising solutions for retail.
• Strong project management abilities; capable of prioritizing and handling multiple projects simultaneously, under tight time constraints and within budget parameters.
• Financial/quantitative analysis with ROI and budget maintenance
• Experience with using Smartsheet.
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint and Excel)

Hasbro’s world-class brands and talented people are our greatest assets. One of the ways we invest in you is through a competitive and contemporary benefits package. Your particular benefits package will depend on your position, location, local legal requirements, and years with the company. Here’s a look at what your benefits package may include: Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance, Half-day Fridays year-round, Paid Vacation Time and holidays, Generous 401(k) match, Paid Parental Leave, Team Hasbro Volunteer Program, Employee Giving and Matching Gifts Programs, Tuition Reimbursement, Toy Discounts and more!

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