Senior E-commerce Manager - Solna

Are you ready create the future of eCommerce in dairy? Then join us as Senior eCommerce Manager and take lead on further building our eCommerce business and transforming our growth across the channel. 

The Senior eCommerce Manager is overall responsible the eCom agenda with the bricks and clicks customers and eCOM pure players. For this role, we are looking for candidates with strong key account management and eCommerce experience.  

This is a high-level yet hands on role focused on leading eCommerce strategies, activations and sales. The position is based in our Solna HQ Office and you will lead a team of four eCommerce professionals. You will report to our Vice President of Sales and be a part of the Sales Leadership Team.

How you will make an impact
Arla has an ambitious commercial agenda and as Senior eCommerce Manager, you will be driving eCommerce excellence and execute the market strategy to enable delivery of our growth ambitions.  The Senior eCommerce Manager will be responsible for developing and implementing the eCommerce strategy for Sweden in close collaboration with the Head of eCommerce in Europe, to ensure that we share and drive best practice across countries and platforms. 

This role sets clear sales targets and KPIs for the team and drives performance to deliver against these targets. You will be accountable for budget and short to mid-term planning.  To be successful, you will communicate and influence senior management and stakeholders’ decisions to ensure optimal outcomes.

In this role, you will:

• Lead, coach and develop strategies, guidelines and ambitious long-term plans för a wider customer segment within the eCommerce Channel
• Establish and maintain successful and strong business relationships with our customer eCommerce counterparts
• Scope and define Arla Sweden’s strategic ambitions within eCommerce
• Align to Zone/Global functions and define local roadmap to delivery. Secure effective launch of initiatives to deliver against plan and targets
• Scope key eCommerce priorities and requirements for channel-ready production and logistics using inputs from retail and industry sources

What will make you successful 
We are looking for a leader who can inspire and who can build a strong team as well as internal networks across the matrix organisation that will secure delivery and adoption of the eCommerce strategy

• You have experience in the eCommerce environment in an FMCG sales or retail role. 

• You hold a, university degree within business, marketing, finance, or similar.
• Knowledge of working with promotion and sales analysis and ability to turn data into actionable insights 
• Ability to stretch form a high-level holistic business development mindset down to defining detailed actions
• Strong project and stakeholder management skills, and understanding of driving business finance 
• Customer centric approach and deep understanding of retailer strategies, priorities and key objectives, with possibility to align own activities to these where relevant 
• Strong communication skills as well as proficiency both in written and spoken Swedish and English
• You have significant leadership experience

As a leader, we expect you to foster a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, an environment of excellence, leading through inspiration. You lead, coach and act as role model for the wider Arla customer team to deliver annual and long-term objectives.

As a person you have an open mind and curiosity in exploring new areas and ideas and a passion for eCommerce sales, consumer insights, and business development. 

What do we offer? 

You will join a passionate, driven and warm-hearted team that work closely together to deliver the future of eCommerce. The team members have an innovative mindset and strive to take the digital lead within our Retail Sales function.

At Arla we’re committed to professional development and promoting from within. Our positive and collaborative culture is built on the collective teams’ positive mindset where everyone contributes to making Arla a great place to work. You’ll join a market leader who produces nutritious household favorite brands in a way that make things better for our consumers, customers and our owners - the farmers. Create the future – Grow with Arla.

Arla Foods has collective agreements, and we always ensure to offer good and competitive working conditions. In addition to that, safety and working environment are our top priorities, which is why we, among other things, conduct random drug and alcohol tests. 

Would you like to join us? 

If you want to facilitate innovation and help shape the industry, then seize this exciting opportunity. Please apply no later than 12th of January. We will beginning to screen resumes in the beginning of January and we will close this  recruitment once the right candidate is found.  Please contact Talent Acquisition Manager, Eva Bexelius evbex@arlafoods.com for questions. 

Please be aware that any applications or CVs coming through email or direct messages will not be accepted or considered. 

We have a purpose for Good

At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

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