Marketplace Trading & Growth Specialist (Hybrid)

New Balance Europe B.V.; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Health insurance discount

8% holiday allowance

Hybrid working

Pension scheme

25 days annual leave

Travel allowance

On-site gym

Employee discount

Work from home allowance

Home working equipment

Sports subscriptions

Wellbeing support

Job summary

New Balance Europe B.V. is seeking a Marketplace Trading Specialist to support growth across our digital accounts. You will build strong partner relationships, align with wholesale and merchandising teams, and provide strategic recommendations while ensuring a premium brand experience.

Reporting to the Marketplace Trading Manager, you will analyze data, produce reports, forecast marketplaces, and coordinate with operations to meet performance targets. The role requires travel and fluent English.

Qualifications

• Relevant years of experience with marketplace and/or partner program operations.
• Strong communication and relationship building skills.
• Proficient in providing actionable insights and recommendations from reports and analysis.
• Strong project management skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable communication with senior leaders with strong influencing skills.
• Proactive mindset to understand available opportunities and business priorities.
• Able and willing to travel on occasion.
• Fluent in English, other European languages are an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Support Trading Manager with activities related to driving growth in our key digital accounts to build brand driven growth on these channels.
• Identify marketplace opportunities, determining the commerciality and prioritizing projects accordingly whilst managing the long-term strategic growth of the dedicated marketplaces.
• Liaising closely with the EMEA wholesale teams, to ensure alignment with their overall strategies.
• Working closely with the merchandising team to evaluate the stock opportunity and product ranging for marketplaces.
• Produce informative daily/weekly reports, marketing, and product performance.
• Provide timely, accurate and proactive analysis to deliver actionable insights and recommendations utilizing all available data sources.
• Support the forecasting process for digital marketplaces.
• Working closely with the Marketplaces Operations team to ensure technical and operational elements are running smoothly (fulfilment of orders is in line with agreed performance/SLA’s, ensure product go-live targets are met, etc).
• Identify marketing opportunities with partners, and coordinating the requirements to support campaign launches.
• Actively seek opportunities to increase revenue.

Skills

Marketplace operations

Relationship building

Data analysis

Reporting

Influencing

Travel flexibility

Fluent English

Tools

Excel

Job description

New Balance Europe B.V. is seeking a Marketplace Trading Specialist to support growth across our digital accounts. You will build strong partner relationships, align with wholesale and merchandising teams, and provide strategic recommendations while ensuring a premium brand experience.

Reporting to the Marketplace Trading Manager, you will analyze data, produce reports, forecast marketplaces, and coordinate with operations to meet performance targets. The role requires travel and fluent English.