Vendor Accelerator Partner

About the role

Drive online business growth by supporting the client's digital presence, consumer experience, and ultimately driving online sales and share expansion in the US. Position to be fulfilled at the retailer headquarters in Indiana for close alignment with internal teams and vendor stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Act as a digitally native professional focused on building strong relationships to identify, unlock, and execute mutual goals and opportunities between the client and digital e-commerce partner.
• Bring strategic insights to e-commerce partner to help drive website conversion.
• Identify and unlock content opportunities that support the partner website and conversion ambitions.
• Serve as an extended arm of the Retail Marketing Manager supporting both the client and e-commerce partner to execute and deploy Customer Marketing Plan actions.
• Be the main point of contact for both the client and e-commerce partner teams for online new initiatives.
• Understand partner’s consumer journey stages (Welcome, Fitment Confirmation, Evaluation & Consideration, Purchase) and ensure client’s digital presence supports each stage.
• Implement strategies to reduce fallout/drop-off:
• Optimize taxonomy to reduce friction and optimize consumer journey
• Optimize Conversion rate by PDP
• Purchase Orders & On-Hand Management: Ensure timely and accurate processing of POs and inventory oversight.
• Content Updates & Optimization: Maintain and optimize product content for increased organic traffic, longer virtual sessions, higher consideration, and conversion.
• Catalog & Taxonomy Management: Ensure accurate catalog and taxonomy for better findability.
• New Product Setup: Help ensure PDPs are accurate and up to date with new product launches
• Out of stock: tracking out of stock situation and optimizing the process to reduce it
• Forecasting & Allocation: Provide accurate forecasting for supply and allocation to reduce out-of-stock issues and improve on-shelf availability
• Growth & Innovation: Build upon category trends and identify opportunities for digital innovation and growth within the partnership ecosystem.
• Assortment: Close assortment gaps and ensure a robust long tail to meet diverse consumer needs
• Strategic-Category Growth: Help Client grow thru e-commerce partner in the strategic categories of Motorsports, Enthusiast Truck, Winter, EV, and Classic.
• Efficiencies: Identify operational efficiencies between both firms that can reduce the operating costs of both entities.
• Share monthly reporting with agreed-upon KPIs to drive transparency and accountability.
• Analyze campaign and operational performance and share findings to inform future strategies.
• Create scorecard to monitor business progress and performance.
• Organize QBR with key stakeholders.

Requirements

• 2-3 years of experience

Qualifications

APC is a professional staffing and services organization focused on engaging people and positively impacting lives. As âProfessionals serving Professionalsâ®, we take pride in providing our employees and contractors with the highest level of customer service and support.

Skills

APC is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status.

Benefits

APC offers competitive compensation and benefits, including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.

Pay

A reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role is $28.00 - $33.00 per hour. The disclosed pay range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. The compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case, such as skills and experience levels.

Schedule

The position is a 12-month contract with no third-party C2C and no visa sponsorship. It is located onsite in South Bend, IN.