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Commercial Manager

Employer
Sky
Location
England
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
18 Aug 2022

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Specialist Area
Commercial
Sector
Consultancy
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

As a Commercial Planning Manager you will join a passionate team and be a driving force behind Sky Mobile's quarterly planning process. You will be empowered to set the direction not only for quarterly strategy but also through separate workstreams aimed at implementing new ideas and utilising a range of levers to drive growth. You will have the opportunity to work with a wide range of stakeholders across the Sky Mobile including Marketing, Trading, Finance, Product, Propositions and Routes to Market teams.

Sky Mobile operates in a fast paced and dynamic industry that dictates agile thinking and a restless approach to ongoing and forward-thinking initiatives.

What you'll do:
  • Have the opportunity to make a clear and visible impact to the success of a fast-growing business
  • Be responsible for strategising campaigns and support the development of a commercially viable sales plan that will excite our customers and hit financial targets
  • Work with multiple stakeholders including propositions, supply, risk, finance, trading and marketing to generate a forecast that is ambitious but achievable, identifying specifically what is going to drive the growth
  • Align the targets to your high-level plan and ensure you are driving profitable growth within each of the sales channels
  • Analyse competitor activity and previous performance; feed this insight into the development of our sales and marketing plans
  • Identification, mitigation and resolution of risks and issues that could obstruct the successful delivery of your plan
  • Work on strategic projects where you seek to identify and size market opportunities to grow Sky's market share. Form recommendations and present to senior stakeholders

What you'll bring:
  • A rigorous approach to solving problems and exploring opportunities, with a keen eye for detail
  • Proactivity and a bias for action - you're focused on delivering great results and always look to act on the insight / opportunity in front of you
  • Concise communicator - able to draw out what's most important and message succinctly according to your audience (from contact centre advisor to senior stakeholder)
  • Commercially astute - experience of tracking and optimising a set of key critical metrics
  • Collaboration and persuasion skills - you're able to co-create plans but reach a clear recommendation and get your stakeholders to get behind it
  • Ability to work quickly and accurately with high attention to detail and manage priorities
  • Ability to develop network of contacts across Sky
  • Strong team player and keen to work across departments
  • Able to work at pace on a variety of projects maintaining accuracy and is comfortable in the fast-paced environment at Sky Mobile
  • Can do attitude, enthusiastic and self-motivated

Team Overview:

We bring the best from the global market into Sky - we buy technology, marketing, corporate, operational services and editorial production solutions. We are an international team working with our stakeholders our partners to curate the most effective and efficient customer-led operating model. High ethical standards are embedded in our team, and we engage our supply chains in creating a sustainable future!

The Rewards:

There's a reason people can't stop talking about . Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

  • Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place

  • A generous pension package

  • Private healthcare

  • Discounted mobile and broadband

Where you'll work:

How you'll work:

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

Your office base:Osterley:

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There's also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you'll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inclusion:

Recognised as an 'Inclusive Top 50 Employer' and a 'Times Top 50 Employer for Women', we're working hard to ensure we're a truly inclusive place to work. This means we don't just look at your CV. We're more focused on who you are and the potential you'll bring to Sky. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we're happy to discuss flexible working!

And we'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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