Freelance Marketing Manager (San Fran CA)

FREELANCE MARKETING MANAGER

Fashion Brand

ASAP start

End Date: 1/31/2020 with opportunity to extend 

Work Location: San Francisco CA

Size of the Team: Part of 15+ person team

What are the Top 3-5 Skills needed to perform this role/job?: a. Understanding of retail – Cross functional team roles, merchandising and planning roles b. Strong sense of accountability and ownership c. Ability to partner and collaborate with key stakeholders to influence change. d. Proficient at project management and senior management communication e. Excellent written and oral communication skills

Strong in analytics, managing competing priorities, engaging/partnering with brand teams

Background of candidate you are looking for (1) Inventory Management; (2) Merchandising; (3) Customer Insights; (4) Consulting

 Additional Desired Skills/ Software requirements: MS Office

Qualifications
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership
• Ability to partner and collaborate with key stakeholders to influence change
• Demonstrate ability to think globally/strategically and help focus the organization on the most critical and value-added tests
• Experience with change management and leading transition and implementation work
• Proficient at project management and senior management communication
• Strong leadership, coaching and development skills
• Ability to influence and manage project outcomes to deliver results
• Strong critical thinking and business curiosity
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to drive and execute process analysis
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks and projects, to prioritize and adapt to a changing environment

Minimum educational level
• Bachelor’s Degree required
Minimum experience
• 7-10 years plus experience in strategy/management consulting, retail/consumer products or similar analytic role
• Ideally, experience in consumer insights or A/B product testing
• Proven team player with strong project management skills
• Ability to influence in a matrix organization
• Strong business partnership skills
• Ideally, experience in one of core retail cross-functional areas – Merchandising, Global Production or Inventory Management