Go to Market Specialist

Dolce&Gabbana, a leader in the world of luxury fashion, for its new in-house Beauty Division has an exceptional career opportunity. Join the brand in its new venture and come work in an exciting environment, favorable to audacity & creativity.

Dolce&Gabbana Beauty is looking for a proactive, organized and multi-tasking Go to Market Specialist based in Milan.

About the job

The candidate will be supporting one of the two Go to Market fragrance managers on global fragrance & EMEA. It is an opportunity to work in both global and regional challenges.

Role responsibilities:

Global Fragrance scope:

• Create and implement brand strategy by defining the short-term intervention plan and strategic long-term goals for the different fragrance franchises
• Collaborate with global cross-functional teams (global marketing, regional sales, and visual merchandising) to ensure alignment of activities
• Help prepare presentations, reports and analysis of market trends, competitors, and performance KPIs
• Maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to ensure smooth project execution

EMEA Region scope:

• Develop market analysis together with regional team to identify issues and business opportunities and constantly monitor the performance of reference brands in collaboration with regional team
• Use analysis carried out by regional team to identify opportunities for brand development in line with business strategies with the supervision of the reference manager
• Ensure the correct positioning of the DG Beauty within the cluster of markets for EMEA region by analyzing market trends and analysis of competition
• Support the regional team with marketing presentations to customers, especially during launches or specific projects
• Help regional team on implementing the strategy defined and orchestrate local launches in collaboration with regional team (Sales team, Trade Marketing, Brand)
• Approve all the trade activation built by regional team including OCD plans, instore activations and permanent projects

Requirements:

• Master or equivalent
• 2-3 years of experience in global trade marketing or market / regional operational marketing
• Preferable international experience (e.g. Erasmus, Exchange Program)
• Internship experience gained reality beauty and possibly in the category of fragrances, other category is a plus
• Knowledge of brand development plans and how a campaign and/or marketing plan is structured
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel and PowerPoint in particular & analytical tools (Cognos, Power BI)
• Excellent knowledge of English (additional languages are a plus)

Skills And Abilities:

• Strong interpersonal communication skills
• Strong capacity for analysis and synthesis
• Capacity of public speaking
• Strong analytical expertise
• Drive for beauty and understanding of market dynamics