Marketplace Trading Specialist

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

Who We Are:

Since 1906, New Balance has empowered people through sport and craftsmanship to create positive change in communities around the world. We innovate fearlessly, guided by our core values and driven by the belief that conventions were meant to be challenged. We foster a culture in which every associate feels welcomed and respected, where leaders and creatives are inspired to shape the world of tomorrow by taking bold action today.

JOB MISSION:

Reporting to the Marketplace Trading Manager, the Marketplace Trading Specialist will be responsible for supporting our trading team driving the growth and success of our key digital accounts. To succeed in this role, you will need to build strong relationships with our partners, align with our wholesale and merchandising teams to set and pursue commercial objectives and collaborate with other internal support functions such as operations to ensure your accounts are running smoothly. You will be a trader at heart, read the market, align trading and merchandising activity and be able to provide strategic recommendations for the business whilst ensuring we deliver premium brand experience.

MAJOR ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• 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.

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCCESS:

• 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.

BENEFITS:

• Discretionary Bonus Opportunity
• Discount on the health insurance
• 8% holiday allowance
• Flexible Working Hours
• Pension Scheme
• 25 days Annual Leave per year
• Up to €300 travel allowance each month
• Hybrid working
• On-site Gym
• Employee Discount
• Work from-home allowance
• Home working equipment
• Sports subscription services
• Flexibility to work 20 days from anywhere each year
• Wellbeing and Mental Health Benefit (24/7 Employment Assistance Program & Support)

Equal Opportunity Employer: New Balance is committed to equality of opportunity for all current and prospective associates regardless of age, disability, race, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership and gender reassignment.

We are an equal opportunity employer and support a culture of diversity and inclusion.

If you have not already done so, please let us know if you require any support so we can make the right adjustments and considerations should they be required.

At New Balance, our job is to aid athletes in their pursuit of excellence, whether that means helping professional athletes set records and win medals, or propelling everyday athletes to achieve a new PR, run their first 5K or just to live a more healthy and active lifestyle.

Our products are the perfect blend of function and fashion, giving you the performance technology you need and the style you want.

Our associates around the world bring these goals to life with their high-level skills and creativity.

While we offer the best product on the market, we’re also equally committed to giving back. So while we look to succeed, we believe in ensuring others have the same opportunity.