go to Market Partner Lead

PENTLAND; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job description

We're Pentland Brands; a dynamic, global family business, and proud owners and licensees of many iconic active and footwear brands. With a community of over 1,300 team members worldwide, we embrace diversity and inclusion, and champion growth and development. Our success is built on teamwork, courage, innovation, and an unwavering commitment to excellence.

WHAT'S THE MISSION FOR THIS ROLE?

Acting as the Lead for the end to end go to market process with close links to brand, design, development & supply planning teams you will build, own and update the end-to-end critical path for the Endura brand. You will also work closely with other partners in the Cycle/Outdoor group to align between brand in the cycle/outdoor group.

WHAT DOES THIS ROLE DO?

As our Go To Market Partner you will be responsible for:

• Design bespoke elements to enable delivery of multiple agile projects within the critical path.
• Ensuring critical path actions & owners are clearly understood across our Endura matrix teams.
• Responsible for ensuring the matrix team delivers to plan.
• You will be the go-to person facilitating critical path related forums to ensure we have the right teams in the room driving swift & clear decision-making along our critical path journey.
• Create, own, update and plan the overall Endura critical path across the processes, systems and people right concept creation, launch & sell-in to successful on-time real activation in-store.
• Design bespoke critical paths feeding into the overall workplan. Deliver agile projects against multiple timelines, optimising speed to market across our different processes New Product Innovation, New Product Development, SMU Toolbox and Core.
• Own and chair regular cross-functional meetings, managing all relevant stakeholders to ensure on-time delivery of all elements of each critical path.
• Ensure all paths & projects are managed in a consistent and visible way, ensuring progress across all parts of the critical path are transparent, shared and understood with clear accountability & ownership throughout.
• Work closely with the commercial team to understand, champion & align our business to the specific critical path requirements of our key retail partners.
• Facilitate workshops, forums and meetings against key stage gates, closely managing critical path implementation & ensuring we see effective contribution from all functional stakeholders, with a strong focus on customer & consumer inputs.
• Deliver clear, consolidated & action-focused outputs from each session to relevant teams.
• Ensure the critical path & key inputs are aligned to business calendars, directional & market plan timings, ensuring link ups where appropriate.
• Support the definition and tracking of key critical path KPI's and deliverables.
• Own the measurement & reporting of these metrics, capturing lessons learned to drive continual improvement of the approach to critical path management, adapting new ways of working as required.

WHAT DO I BRING TO THE ROLE?

You just might be our next superstar if you have the following skills and experience:

• Excellent planning and organising skills and experience in communication and presenting to a variety of audiences.
• Ability to self-manage, prioritise work and multitask to tight deadlines.
• Good crisis management skills.
• Able to be a strong team player.
• Able to identify, work and influence key stakeholders.

We want you to live our company principles, bringing a strong consumer focus, while always looking for ways to improve and grow in your role. Take ownership of your work and be proactive in solving problems whilst communicating openly and treating everyone with respect and kindness. And, of course, let your creativity shine by bringing your unique style and individuality to the Pentland Brands Team.

Go To Market Partner | Livingston/Edinburgh/Glasgow location TBC | Permanent, full time

WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?

• Competitive Salary + discretionary bonus
• 25 Days Holiday: Increases with length of service and the option to purchase additional days to suit your needs.
• Discounts: Brand discounts (including friends and family and JD Sports), Sample Sales, and other retail discounts and perks.
• Family-Friendly Benefits: Generous enhanced parental leave policies
• Health Perks: Choose from a variety of health-related perks including medical cash plan, critical illness cover, life assurance, gym and fitness discounts, dental insurance, eye care, and health screening to maintain your wellbeing.
• Travel Perks: Take advantage of our season ticket loan, cycle to work schemes, electric car schemes, and discounts on home charging units to support eco-friendly commuting.
• Flexible Working: We offer hybrid working and flexible working hours, allowing you to start your day earlier or later to help with commute costs or personal commitments.
• Chance to join our Charity, D&I and Sustainability employee networks.

As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to fostering diversity and creating an inclusive culture across our business, stores, and office environment.

We warmly welcome your application.