Naylor’s Equestrian Llp

Role Overview:

• Reporting to the Global Brand Relationship Director, the Partner Analytics Director will lead the global partner analytics team and be responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and improving the commercial impact of our brand relationships.
• This role will suit a commercially minded individual from either a product, analytics, or commercial finance background within a retail business.The individual will have experience managing and developing analytical teams across regions, have a deep understanding of analytical approaches and best practice and be able to influence decision making across all levels.

Key Accountabilities:

• Build a lead a team of analysts who monitor existing brand partner performance globally within the JD Group.

• Develop and maintain the evaluation criteria (scorecards) to monitor performance, presenting key actions/opportunities to Global Brand Relationship Director and business unit Managing Director’s worldwide.

• Establish commercial data dashboard, building processes to gather the data from multiple internal departments (merchandising, supply chain, buying, digital marketing, consumer marketing insights) and collate into regular performance review presentations

• Identify and support the sourcing and commercial evaluation of potential new partners

• Develop and maintain risk management and auditing criteria and process.

• Provides commercial supports and insights to brand marketing teams.

Key Deliverables:

• Scorecards set and populated for all partners

• Pipeline of high potential new partners

• Evidence of improvement initiatives to support partner performance

• Employee engagement, development, and retention

Typical Experience Profile:

• Proven commercial experience at a senior level within a retail business (sports fashion retailer would be advantageous but not essential.
• Experience of managing and developing analytical teams across regions.
• Experience of analytical approaches and best practice and be able to influence decision making across all levels.
• Strong influencer across multiple functions.

Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues and over 3,400 stores across several retail fascias in over 30 markets around the world.

JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.

We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Free parking
• Incremental Holiday Allowance
• Staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation
• Pension Scheme
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don’t hear back within two weeks of you applying, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.