Sales And Marketing Manager

The Company

EZ Living Furniture was founded in Galway in 1998. We are a family run Irish retailer with stores operating nationwide, as well as a full online shopping experience offering delivery throughout Ireland. We are the largest Furniture Retailer in Ireland employing over 300 people. Our planned expansion and continuous improvements to both our physical and online presence will lead to the creation of even more jobs, and cement us as a recognised brand that represents quality, value and above all being customer centric in everything we do. We understand that the world we live in is changing, as are our customer's needs. The future of furniture retail is centered on a number of key factors - providing the most on-trend designs, manufactured to the highest standards, presented in the best showrooms, supported by the most knowledgeable staff, all at superb value. We look to understand our customer's wants and needs and base our company's growth around this. 

About the role

EZ Living furniture are looking for an experienced Business Development Senior Manager to enable our continued Sales and business growth.

Our ideal candidate will have a proven track record of delivering sales results by leveraging our marketing resources.

Please consider the role to be more Sales Enablement than Marketing (Capital S , small m)

This role reports to the CEO

Business Development Senior Manager

        Leverage the creation and management of the marketing campaign calendar, ensuring effective brand messaging and developing revenue growth through online and offline activity to drive sales development plans.

        Enable sales through understanding and analysing the needs of all stores. Deliver year-on-year sales growth

• Liaising with colleagues to develop Sales and Marketing strategies.

        Leading the annual, promotional and weekly planning processes in conjunction with the Buying team and Senior Management

• Identify key sales drivers across product categories, seasonal campaigns and promotional cycles
• Developing territory management plans that identify and prioritise activities to achieve business goals.
• Compile, analyse and interpret various marketing and e-commerce analytics, identify opportunities and drive solutions by collaborating with the relevant teams.
• Oversee the sales performance in line with forecasted sales projections and utilise marketing solutions to drive sales initiatives.
• Analyse the impact on all channels of communication and management of relationships with various agencies and media partners
• Increase sales performance and customer loyalty by championing new ideas and channels ,such as loyalty programmes
• Manage and grow sales through customer-focused programmes,
• Create budgets based on opportunities and projected outcomes of those opportunities.
• Ensure compliance to legal requirements including Data Protection, licencing, Trademarks/logos and any other related legal requirements and activities

Requirements:

• A Degree in Marketing / Digital Marketing or Business analytics or equivalent
• 5+ years' experience in a similar role with both Sales, Sales management and Marketing.
• A natural collaborator, you will have excellent interpersonal skills for communicating, negotiating and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders (e.g. agencies)
• Excellent leadership skills. Excellent Influencing skills.
• Outstanding communication skills both written and verbal
• Ability to influence people at all levels
• Results-focused with strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
• High understanding of consumer behaviour and influences on same.
• A high degree of resilience and the ability to thrive in a fast-moving and ever-changing environment
• Excellent presentation and negotiation skills.
• Experienced in making data driven decision

WHY JOIN US: Look us up on Glassdoor- rated 4.6/5 read our reviews.

 We're dynamic and expanding

 Fun, fast paced & high energy work environment

 Culture of developing and promoting from within the company

 Our Generous staff discounts

Our pension scheme

Our Bonus Scheme

Our Educational Support Scheme

Our Discounted corporate rate health care

Our free Employee Assistance Programme

Our wellbeing initiatives like our Bike to work scheme

Career Development Opportunities

Continuous professional development with dedicated training resources