Description
Volt are currently recruiting on behalf of a global software organisation for a Finance Business Manager (EMEA Marketplace) based in their Reading & London offices (with travel in-in between).
This position is responsible for business planning, rhythm of the business coordination, partner evangelism, driving and implementing strategies and tactics across the organisation, and other key projects associated with running the Marketplace in EMEA. These initiatives may include driving revenue growth, developing competitive strategies, developing new monetization strategies, optimization of the content life cycle, and assisting in tradeoff decisions amongst other lines of business.
As a Marketplace Business Manager, you will also be the driver of the annual, monthly, and weekly revenue commitments for the region. A deep understanding of forecasting and multistep variance analysis is essential. An ability to effectively articulate businesses performance in both written and oral form is also critical. You will also be tasked with delivering macro and micro E-commerce analysis across various Marketplace lines of business, and to dissect and synthesize various data sets into actionable business recommendations.
THE ROLE:
Develop effective plans to address the best market opportunities, communicating across the organization and gaining broad consensus and approval.
*Facilitate internal and external partner evangelism and collaboration
*Driving our Rhythm of Business process:
*Forecast transactions and revenue for aggregate business and on individual pieces of key high-priority content
*Extract and summarize key business insights on an ongoing basis
*Revenue recovery activity if necessary
*Assist marketing team in determining the Gross Margin Return on Investment of programs. Work to gain consensus and adoption of ROI methodology throughout org
*Work throughout the year to improve overall forecast accuracy and sophistication
*Regular presentations to business team, external partners, and others to expose new key learnings and recommendations
*Deep eCommerce analysis with a focus on delivering actionable business recommendations in easy to digest executive summary format.
*Act as internal "subject matter expert" and external face of the Marketplace
*Work on ad-hoc projects as needed to meet the changing business environment.
THE PERSON:
ECommerce experience
*P&L management experience
*Executive Presence and Business Maturity
*Highly developed business management skills
*Ability to drive results within a matrixed environment via cross group collaboration
*Ability to use PowerPoint to tell a succinct business story based on data analysis
*Solid relationship and communication skills in working with senior managers and Microsoft-wide groups
*Ability to effectively develop key processes and procedures that facilitate efficient planning, reporting and control processes
*Understanding of the business dynamics for digital distribution and/or gaming a plus
*Strong analytical skills. Have an ability to deal with ambiguity, distil trends and provide clear analysis and recommendations
*Technical background not required, but tech savvy-ness is important
*Proven experience in learning new tools quickly
PLEASE APPLY WITH YOUR CV.