Head of Retail Expansion – FMCG

Be extraordinary – Excite the ordinary!

Our vision is to make a healthy and sustainable lifestyle the most attractive choice. So we defy: the status quo, misleading product, and nonsense rules! We truly believe in the power of ideas and are thirsty to realize the ones that could have impact. We’re an eclectic bunch of creative minds, experts, builders, and improvers. Our perspectives, cultures, backgrounds, dreams, skills, and life paths may have nothing in common, but we gather behind a vision and sail together towards our ambitious goals.

Are you looking to take on a new challenge? Let’s talk.

Our vision is to make a healthy and sustainable lifestyle the most attractive choice. So we defy: the status quo, misleading product, and nonsense rules! We truly believe in the power of ideas and are thirsty to realize the ones that could have impact. We’re an eclectic bunch of creative minds, experts, builders, and improvers. Our perspectives, cultures, backgrounds, dreams, skills, and life paths may have nothing in common, but we gather behind a vision and sail together towards our ambitious goals.

Your responsibilities

  • You develop and implement a comprehensive retail expansion strategy in a sales channel ecosystem next to our D2C core to increase air up’s presence in brick-and-mortar stores across Europe, including identifying key retail partners and negotiating agreements
  • You cultivate and maintain strong relationships with retail partners, collaborating on marketing campaigns and ensuring compliance with standards
  • You oversee product placement, merchandising, and inventory management to optimize retail partner relationships
  • You provide strategic guidance and direction to internal teams, monitoring performance metrics to track effectiveness and adjust strategies as needed
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams comes natural to you, as you will align retail initiatives with company objectives and ensure successful execution
  • You conduct market research to identify new opportunities and trends in the retail landscape and capitalize on them for growth

This is you

  • You have at least 7+ years of experience in retail in the FMCG or beverage sector, ideally in a management position
  • You are a strong sales talent that combines strategic thinking, financial acumen and a relentless drive to execution
  • You foster the growth and cohesion of a high performing team through effective leadership and development strategies
  • You demonstrated extensively your ability to build and maintain relationships with retail partners and built a network across Europe
  • You have a proactive and goal-oriented way of working as well as the ability to work under pressure and successfully implement complex projects.

But whatโ€™s in for you?

๐Ÿ– 30 days of vacation

๐Ÿท discount on our products

๐Ÿ’ฐ employer-funded pension

๐Ÿ‘Ÿ discount on Urban Sports Club

๐Ÿ“ˆ personal development

๐ŸŽ‰ regular team events

๐Ÿ start-up spirit

๐ŸŒ workation

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air upยฎ have developed an innovative and world-first drinking system. Through scent alone, the air upยฎ bottle brings flavour to simple tap water and can be enjoyed without any single-use plastic bottles, sugar, or additives. air up is a young, fast-growing company filled with ambitious and creative minds from various backgrounds.

air upยฎ is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining an equal opportunity environment for all persons free of discriminatory behaviour. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran’s status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

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