Field Account Manager (Temporary role, 6 months contract)

Job Description
Would you like to build and boost your career by improving LEGO® sales across our partner retail stores in primarily Gothenburg, Borås, Uddevalla, Trollhättan?

Bring your excellent can-do mentality and passion for retail in to play and create huge business impact as well as enabling more play experiences for the builders of tomorrow!
Core Responsibilities

As our new Field Account Manager, you will have West and North Sweden as your primary district. With our partner retail stores you will:

• Identify new sales opportunities and maximize sales in stores through fact based performance dialogues and action plans.

• Execute in-store campaigns and build disruptive exposures in store and mirror those online

• Deliver strong selling pitches to the stores to agree on 2nd placements to increase visibility of our products in stores online.

• Ensure that stores follow visual merchandising guidelines and represent the LEGO® brand for shoppers and consumers. Address any opportunities and coach store teams on every visit.

• Establish and train store teams with aim to elevate the brand position, standards and execution online and in stores (product knowledge, sales techniques, merchandise standards).

• Attend customer fairs, build relationship and drive growth of your store portfolio.

• Promote total customer service and LEGO® culture, as the most important consideration in every transaction.

Play your part in our team succeeding

As part of the Nordic Business Unit setup, the Field Sales team exists alongside the Sales/KAM, Operations and Marketing teams.

The main responsibility of the Field Sales team is to drive executional excellence through best-in-class implementation of campaigns & In Store solutions whilst also improving sales through thought leadership and store level advisory.

Do you have what it takes?

You probably have a bachelor's degree in a business-related field added with proven retail management experience in roles like store manager, district manager, sales rep, field account manager or alike. Moreover, you possess:

• Strong result orientations with the end game (store level execution and sales) in mind. Analytical and commercial approach to drive critical retail metrics and improve in-store performance

• Good understanding and knowledge of driving sales digitally, using SoMe and digital tools for driving traffic, conversion and building brand awareness

• Proven experience in training and encouraging store staff in regards to selling skills, product knowledge, digital marketing, visual merchandizing

• A focused, brave and curious mentality and ability to work with agility in a constantly evolving environment.

• Strong communication and negotiation skills and possess a positive and independently can-do attitude

• Ability to be structured, process and planning oriented

• Energy to thrive in a field based role with need to display flexibility around ways of working and frequent travel (travel to Sweden once every two weeks and 4 times in 6 months travel to Billund, DK). Driver license is needed.

• Fluency in English language skills.

• Danish language skills will be an advantage.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.

• Location
  Off_Site_Municipality, Denmark
• Job ID:
  0000018926
• Category
  Sales, Marketing & Product Management