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Apple’s Sales organisation generates the revenue needed to fuel our ongoing development of products and services. This in turn, enriches the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world. Our team, is in many ways, the face of Apple to our largest customers.
We are here to grow Apple’s business with our partners in Ukraine and CIS. We develop the Apple customer experience and business across the different resellers such as our Apple Premium Resellers or the Consumer Electronic Retailers in order to drive Apple and our partners business forward.
Description
This position reports to Country Head in Ukraine and CIS region and is responsible for the project management in collaboration in VAD teams of the branded & non branded fixtures programs, advocacy programs, online customer experience enhancement projects and streamlining partners’ marketing communications.
The Channel Program Manager (CPM) will work closely with our channel partners and distributors, as well as central teams of Apple, reporting to the Ukraine & CIS Regional Manager. The CPM will be responsible for the Apple and Value Added Distributor (the VAD) merchandising programs (incl. fixture planning, deployment and maintenance, in-store tech readiness), leading NPIs within the sales team, building outstanding online customer experience, managing advocacy programs & building strong communities as well as managing marketing budgets and activities with the retail, monobrand and carrier partners.
Travelling to the countries is required.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of Retail/Retail Marketing/Marketing experience
- Substantial trade / channel marketing experience (experience in Retail deployment role with in-field execution is a plus)
- Strong project management skills
- Financial planning experience, with understanding of budget
management, branding, scalability and event production processes
- Good collaboration skill inside & outside of the organisation; strong influencing skill in cooperation with various VAD teams
- Leading and achieving goals in virtual teams, including management of projects with ambiguity and complex issues
- Strong commercial acumen and experience in working with distributors, retailers and reseller
- Ability to balance short-term execution needs with long-term strategic goals
- Excellent verbal and written, presentation and communication skills
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritise workload to meet deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Digital acumen and e-commerce experience is a plus
- Familiar with multinational organisations
- Fluent in English, Ukrainian and Russian
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor degree (or higher), or equivalent experience.
Additional languages.