About the Zero Motorcycles
We are still a small team in the Netherlands but growing fast and our colleagues are spread in 10 countries. We have a diverse population with more than 10 nationalities, and we all speak multiple languages. We are open to any improvement ideas and celebrate our / your successes as much as we can, and we dream big!
About the Role
We have a vacancy open for a Manager of P&A EMEA APAC. Are you passionate about the spare parts and accessories for the leading company in the electric motorcycle industry? Do you have experience leading a multilingual team (5-6 members with seniority and a strong international approach) with an entrepreneurial mindset driven by commercial success in the P&A of the automotive? And you enjoy working in a creative environment, able to build the required structure and work procedures within your department and can provide clear and accurate reporting to your Management? Introducing new products that meet our rapidly evolving technology makes you happy and you feel comfortable pushing target achievement? You might be the right person for the job we are offering!
Responsibilities
- Supplier Management: Identify, evaluate, and manage relationships with key suppliers, negotiating favourable terms and conditions for the long term. Collaborate with suppliers to ensure reliable supply, quality of products, and competitive pricing. Monitor supplier performance and initiate improvement actions when necessary.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with various teams, including pricing, operations, marketing, logistics, sales and finance, to align category strategies and ensure effective execution of plans.
- Promotions and Marketing: Work closely with marketing teams to develop effective promotional campaigns, advertising initiatives, product portal and product launches.
- Product management: Assortment Planning and Optimization: Analyse customer demand patterns, sales data, and market trends (OEM’s) to determine the optimal product assortment within the category. Continuously evaluate and update the assortment to maximize sales, profitability, and customer satisfaction. Yearly report on Pricebook.
- Customer Experience: Own Item data quality for the category assigned, drive improvements in product cards for customers, by ensuring A+ content by working with manufacturers. Manage new projects individually or together with US. POR vs Act vs FC – Monitoring, reporting and Tracking financial plan.
Qualifications
- Graduate or equivalent experience in business administration.
- An understanding of and passion for Motorcycle or Automotive industries; 5+ years work in a similar role with proven aftersales commercial skillset.
- Electrical vehicles and motorcycles passionate is preferred.
- Experience in Business, category management, buying or selling.
- Strong numerical and analytical aptitude.
- Advanced user of Excel and SAP.
Required Skills
- The candidate must be proficient in Microsoft Office, specifically Excel (reporting with macros and provide analytics for the business).
- Knowledge of relevant applications ERP, SAP and Salesforce is preferred.
- Commercial mindset to grow the business.
- Organized, superior attention to detail and accuracy.
- Proficient administrative skills and multitasker.
- Strong communication skills. Verbal and written English and other European languages. Verbal and written Dutch is preferred.
- Problem analysis and problem-solving.
- Strong Team management skills.
- Not 9-5 mentality.
- Data collection and processing.
- Stress tolerance, ability to convey complex topics in simple terms.
- Proven negotiation skills, influencing abilities.
- Ownership, accountability, resilience.
- Both strong team-player as independent worker.
- No-nonsense mentality.
- Pro-Active mindset. Tactical and Strategic thinker.
- Fully work from office (no hybrid).
Pay range and compensation package
A competitive salary with opportunity to join stock program for employees. Interesting secondary benefits.
Equal Opportunity Statement
We are committed to diversity and inclusivity in our workplace.
