Senior Retail Partnerships Leader (Remote)

Circana; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Circana in the UK seeks a Head of Strategic Retail Partnerships to oversee relationships with our most valuable retail clients. You will use extensive industry knowledge to guide your team and clients, provide consultation, and remove barriers, while prioritising resources to balance internal and client needs.

The ideal candidate has proven leadership of high-performing teams, exceptional communication, and a data-driven, collaborative, solution-focused approach to decision making within a busy

Qualifications

• Experience working with retailers or for a retailer using customer/market data to drive commercial decision making
• Proven experience leading a high performing team
• Exceptional interpersonal, written and spoken communication skills
• Analytical mindset with ability to integrate multiple data sets to deliver actionable insights
• Tenacity to influence and drive solutions in a busy retail environment
• Excellence in relationship building with senior stakeholders
• Ability to coach a team in using data to create compelling actions through storytelling
• Able to prioritise, work flexibly and make rapid decisions

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 20+ (2 direct reports), setting direction and coaching
• Establish and maintain trusted partner status with your clients through a consultative approach
• Accountable for the delivery of contracted services to clients and identification of incremental opportunities through consultation
• Act as the voice of the clients within Circana, ensuring their needs are understood and appropriately prioritised
• Act as a point of escalation for the client
• Set team and client objectives
• Support the team to deliver client budgets
• Drive the Circana UK agenda and prioritisation as part of the UK Operating committee

Skills

Retail data leadership

Team leadership

Client relationship building

Strategic partnership management

Data-driven decision making

Cross-functional collaboration

Consultative selling

Job description

Circana in the UK seeks a Head of Strategic Retail Partnerships to oversee relationships with our most valuable retail clients. You will use extensive industry knowledge to guide your team and clients, provide consultation, and remove barriers, while prioritising resources to balance internal and client needs.

The ideal candidate has proven leadership of high-performing teams, exceptional communication, and a data-driven, collaborative, solution-focused approach to decision making within a busy