Director, Trade Marketing

About the Job

Beautynova is the Italy-based parent company and manufacturer of a portfolio of innovative and coveted Professional Hair Care brands, including ®, DEPOT®, and Medavita, and operates in North America under our subsidiary, z.one concept USA, inc.

At Beautynova, we are dedicated to delivering better days in people’s lives through high-performing hair products with care, respect and creativity. We serve professionals and consumers thanks to an open-minded, entrepreneurial, and committed team.

As part of our accelerated growth strategy in North America, we are seeking like-minded, experienced, and passionate people to join and elevate our team.

Job Title: Director, Trade Marketing

Department: Marketing

Reports to: VP Marketing

Job Type: Full Time / Exempt

Location: Hybrid (New Jersey-Based)

The Director, Trade Marketing will be responsible for leading the development & execution of all customer centric marketing plans within the portfolio of Beautynova Americas brands: ®, DEPOT®, and Medavita. This role will work cross functionally to drive trade marketing strategies & execution fueling professional & retail engagement, customer sell-in, and in-market excellence. This role is a critical connector between marketing and sales, responsible for translating brand strategy into compelling customer programs that accelerate growth, enhance shopper experience, and strengthen our presence across professional and retail channels in North America.

• Lead the annual Integrated Commercial Planning cycle, ensuring alignment between brand, sales, trade marketing, and finance.
• Translate brand plans and category strategies into customer-level plans that form part of the Joint Business Planning Cycle with key national and regional accounts.
• Set up the key process to link planning and execution between the brand, media, trade and regional marketing and the distributor sell in cycle via DBP (Distributor Business Planning).
• Ensure innovation pipeline is integrated into the Distributor and Customer sell-in cycles.

• Develop robust & comprehensive Trade Marketing strategy for professional & retail accounts in partnership with Brand Marketing, Sales, and Education including sampling, visual merchandising, in-store digital activation strategies.
• Develop strategies and initiatives based on Marketing priorities, ensuring balance and appropriate focus among core vs. newness SKUs.
• Identify key seasonal opportunities at channel/customer level.
• Create and implement marketing planning tools, including 360 marketing calendars, retailer-facing marketing planning materials, and at-a-glance tools to ensure all teams have a thorough knowledge of marketing activations and account-specific activity by product or campaign.
• Partner with the brand teams and sales to create go-to-market strategies that support brand initiatives and commercial goals.
• Maintain key account marketing calendars, in partnership with sales.
• Manage all market meeting meetings – from prep to presentation.

• Lead visual merchandising process for all VM updates (i.e., front of salon, backbar, in-line, front of store, secondary placement updates) with strategic briefs kicking off the process cross functionally.
• Partner with Brand Marketing and Sales to ensure optimal productivity of POS/VM of all respective channels and evaluate retail sales impact.
• Proactively identify areas of opportunity from a productivity standpoint and provide ideas to Brand Marketing on how to further optimize visual merchandising space in stores (e.g., messaging, claims, creative, imagery, etc.).
• Responsible for project management for all merchandising updates in store, working closely with brand & graphic designers team to meet all respective deadlines.

• Conduct audits of .com pages with findings on (included but not limited to) pricing, assets, copy, video, reviews.
• Complete extensive research on best-in-class assets and provide recaps on ideas on how to optimize assets.
• Track assets being delivered by Global and serve as dedicated project manager resulting in timeliness upload of all NPD and/or dedicated campaign…