Commercial Manager (Maternity Cover)

About Blackhawk Network:

Blackhawk Network (BHN) is the leader in global branded payment technologies. We strengthen relationships between brands and their customers, employees, and partners by transforming transactions into connections. BHN's portfolio includes: Gift Card & eGift products, promotions and distribution that grow revenue faster; Rewards & Incentives that build loyalty and acquisition and are integrated into today's leading platforms; and Payments that enable businesses and customers to access and disburse funds in convenient and innovative ways. BHN's network spans across the globe with over 400,000 consumer touchpoints. Learn more at BHN.com.

Overview:

We have an exciting new role working at a Global level with one of the largest Grocery Retailers, managing 6 markets, including France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Poland and Romania. This role will engage with senior stakeholders both internally and externally and will sit within the Commerce team and will report directly into the Senior Director for Retail. The role will have a team of 7 people including Account Managers for each market and a Project Manager

This role will be a maternity cover position.

Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for forecasting and managing the P&L for all 6 markets, ensuring that your team deliver to plan by territory.
• In conjunction with your team and the partner, you will be responsible for the long term growth plans for each market and ensuring annual delivery against those plans.
• You will be responsible for maintaining strong relationships with the Senior team at this Grocery Retailer both at a group and local market level, through strong relationship building but also key meetings such as Quarterly Business Reviews and Annual Senior Leadership meetings.
• Working closely with a team of 6 to deliver annually against our plan.

This role, when it is safe to do so, will require international travel to the following markets; France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Romania, Poland, Brazil

Qualifications:

• Experience in managing a large multi-million-dollar P&L and delivering to plan annually
• Experiencing in creating long term strategies, across multiple markets, to deliver long term growth for our business.
• Experience as a people manager
• Ability to manage to a budget
• Fluent English is required
• Excellent written English skills are a must.
• Excellent inter-personal skills
• A proven track record in building strong and lasting relationships with key stakeholders both externally and internally.
• Ability to analyse data and draw logical and intelligent conclusions from it.
• An ability to manage multiple work streams, with multiple dependencies at any one time
• A proven track record in problem solving.
• An ability to work calmly under pressure.
• Experience in presenting to large audiences.
• A proven track record in negotiation and objection handling.
• Willingness to be flexible with workload, priorities, and time.

Benefits:

We offer a competitive range of Employee Benefits that are designed to give all our employees a better quality of work-life, decrease stress and foster a great culture.

Our benefits include: 25 days annual leave and an 8% holiday allowance, additional appreciation days, additional leave for volunteering , pension, compensation travel expenses reimbursement of 0,23 cent per km, bicycle lease program, and flyers, our leading recognition programme with financial rewards. We also offer a wide variety of other benefits to support your physical and mental health.

Additionally, we offer hybrid working, office group activities and biweekly lunches!