Senior Associate, Integrated Planning & Performance-Retail
Drive Spotter
This role bridges strategy and execution — ensuring alignment across commercial, marketing, and operational teams to deliver sustainable business growth.
The ideal candidate is self-driven, highly proactive, and able to work independently on a blank canvas to build and optimize new processes and solutions.
Scope of Work:
Sales & Profitability Management
● Conduct end-to-end performance monitoring to ensure Retail results are on track vs. targets, and proactively identify optimization opportunities within the allocated budget.
● Collaborate with Category and Demand Planning teams on monthly, campaign, and intra-month commercial planning, including pricing strategy and promotion planning.
● Partner with the Retail BI team to enhance data visibility and performance reporting dashboards for better commercial insights.
● Drive overall Retail performance through cross-functional collaboration, aligning local Retail execution with Platform objectives.
Assortment Operations
● Manage Retail assortment lifecycle (onboarding, incubation, and offboarding) together with the Category team.
● Oversee & manage assortment operations on the platform, ensuring Retail assortments participate effectively in key assortment programs and initiatives.
Marketing & Media
● Serve as the subject matter expert on Marketing Solutions within the Retail organization.
● Act as the Retail PIC for cross-functional collaboration with Local Marketing Solution, Campaign, and other relevant teams to improve current business processes and solutions.
● Develop marketing solution spend recommendations for brands and evaluate solution performance against ROI and commercial objectives.
● Identify and develop new monetization opportunities within the Retail channel and category stores.
● Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Marketing, or related fields.
● 3+ years of experience in business performance management, commercial planning, retail operations, or e-commerce.
● Prior experience in cross-functional project management or marketing performance analysis is highly preferred.
Skills & Competencies
● Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to interpret data and translate insights into actionable strategies.
● Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders and work cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment.
● Excellent communication and presentation skills with attention to detail.
● Comfortable working with data and tools (e.g., Excel, BI dashboards, SQL/PowerBI is a plus).
● High level of ownership, proactivity, and curiosity to challenge the status quo and build new processes from scratch.
Mindset & Traits
● Self-starter with strong initiative and bias for action.
● Strategic thinker with hands-on execution ability.
● Collaborative, adaptable, and resilient in navigating ambiguity.