Sales - Retail Program Manager, ANZSA
About the role
Apple is seeking an outstanding, passionate, collaborative and self-driven individual to successfully manage multiple concurrent program deployments in the channel. The role involves partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful programs that drive sales and customer experience, ensuring standards are understood and delivered by channel partners, vendors, and internal stakeholders. Requires collaboration with WW, regional, country teams and external partners to deploy channel programs in line with sales strategy.
Responsibilities
- Develop and manage multiple concurrent merchandising and retail programs throughout their lifecycle - including POR planning, retailer negotiations, design, space planning, budget management, vendor coordination, logistics and on-ground execution
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders across Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Operations to align priorities, ensure timely, high-quality program rollouts and build business cases that drive key deliverables when needed
- Ability to proactively manage changes in project scope, identifying risks and creatively solves problems and execute flawlessly the program deliverables
- Develop and maintain high-level plans, trackers, and executive-ready reporting for store rollouts and forward deployment pipelines - keeping all stakeholders informed and accountable
- Lead partner engagements with confidence - steering negotiations, driving deployment plan, and providing end-to-end rollout oversight that upholds Apple’s standards
- Drive continuous improvements - anticipate gaps and proactively address execution challenges through creative, practical solutions. Influence and align key stakeholders, create clear action plans and follow-through to deliver measurable impact and achieve business outcomes
Qualifications
- 7+ years of related experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Background in project/program management, sales enablement, and/or a similar function
- Deep knowledge of channel sales, including strategies and processes required to scale and evolve impactful programs
- Demonstrated excellence in project management, including financial planning, budget management, vendor coordination, branding and scalability
- Perform well in high-pressure situations, and are comfortable with a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment
- Extensive practical experience managing store fit-outs and fixture installations, with a creative eye for retail design and passion for delivering outstanding customer experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong presentation and content development experience in Keynote, Numbers, and Pages
Skills
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