Manager, Global GTM Operations - Emerging Brands

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Job Title: Manager, Global GTM Operations – Emerging Brands

Reports to:  Director, Global Go To Market– Emerging Brands

Location:  Remote Goleta

Interested applicants must reside in one of the following approved states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Washington

The Role

The Global Go-To-Market (GTM) Manager will be responsible for creating and communicating the GTM calendar in partnership with key stakeholders: Product Development, Product Management, Design, Marketing, Planning, Merchandising, etc., building templates and creating communication tools used by Global and Regional teams each season to drive Global consistency and cross functional collaboration. This role will help ideate GTM milestones across seasons, develop tools that will guide cross functional collaboration, and ensure adherence for deliverable deadlines. This role will be responsible for leading and managing tool and process improvements for the global teams and identifying new ways of working to continually simplify our tools and processes, working with outside vendors and overall logisitics planning. This role leads GTM milestone meetings such as seasonal kick-offs, GTM 1, 2, 3 and Brand Conferences and provides ad hoc support as needed.

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Your Impact

• Ensure all key milestones and deliverables are up-to-date with each updated seasonal calendar
• Translate GTM calendar into detailed processes and procedures achieving timely completion necessary for successful execution of GTM activities delivery of commercial samples and production
• Support in creating clear business processes that enable efficient, simplified ways of working in order to meet critical GTM deadlines
• Develop, communicate and help clarify ways of working, decision rights, objectives and outcomes of milestone meetings to cross-functional global and regional stakeholders
• Support the development of standardized tools that enable Product Management, Product Development, Planning, Marketing and Design teams to consistent and clear execution
• Work closely with Global and Regional cross-functional leadership to identify opportunities to streamline and simplify tools and ways of working.
• Develop a holistic understanding of all tools across milestones and identify and propose opportunities to automate.
• Support issue resolution and support in driving alignment among cross-functional stakeholders regarding opportunities to improve operational excellence within the organization.
• Ensure adherence for deliverable deadlines and agreed upon timelines
• Measure and report out on seasonally set KPI’s
• Schedule cross-functional meetings for key milestones
• Provide ad hoc operations support as needed. Includes providing milestone management support, coordinating logistics, and managing facilities and outside vendors.
• Track budget and expenses for key milestone meetings
• Attend cross-functional meetings, as required

Who You Are

• Strong communication skills and ability to navigate and influence challenging conversations with leadership and cross-functional teams
• Understand the inner workings of a Brand and how a season is designed, developed and executed cross-functionally across Consumer Insights, Finance, Product, Design, Development, Merchandising, Brand, Marketing in partnership with Global & Regional teams
• Excellent project management and organization skills with impeccable attention to detail
• Ability to prioritize, multitask and adjust in a dynamic, fast-changing environment while driving results and maintaining a high level of accountability

We’d love to hear from people with

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent combination of experience
• 10+ years experience working in a Global organization across functions such as Product, Marketing, Creative, Merchandising, Sales, Operations, Finance, Consumer Insights or Consumer Lifecycle Management
• Experience managing GTM calendar and process is preferable
• Direct experience with managing mul