Business Strategy & Planning, Apple

Beats International

Salary not provided
Mid level
London
Apple

Personal technology company

Job no longer available

Apple

Personal technology company

1001+ employees

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Job no longer available

Salary not provided
Mid level
London

1001+ employees

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Company mission

Apple's mission is to bring the best user experience to its customers through its innovative hardware, software, and services.

Role

Who you are

  • You will have previous and demonstrable success in sales channel management, retail marketing and outstanding financial acumen
  • Excellent analytical, problem solving and financial modelling skills
  • The ability to drive insight from financial data, that helps create a narrative and business direction for sales team, with the ability to present findings in an engaging format across various teams

What the job involves

  • First and foremost, support the international Beats teams in achieving the business goals and sales targets
  • Support these teams in building and executing initiatives that drive the results
  • Liaise with the intentional sales, finance, business planning, operations teams, as well as their US-based counterparts
  • Similarly liaise and partner with the parallel function in the Beats WW team
  • Partner closely with merchandising team to optimise Beat’s branded distribution footprint
  • Present the commercial analysis to what, why and how we engage with the consumer
  • Cover business development activities; articulating the performance of programs and channel investments, demand generation and partner marketing programs
  • Conduct account planning deep dive analyses with sales teams, at least twice per quarter on marketing opportunities for each region
  • Identify opportunities to create new demand and terminate ineffective marketing programs
  • Take a leading role in the relationships and dialog with supporting finance teams in Beats and Apple, across US and international
  • With execution as the prime initial focus, over time this role should propose, challenge and refine business processes, to drive the targets through sales and marketing, and build new activities in partnership with the leadership team
  • Evaluate the effectiveness (ROI) of demand generation spend, stretch targets, resource investment and “like for like” (organic) partner growth outcomes
  • Be capable of articulating and discussing succinctly to VP and the leadership team in regular business review
  • Own the "bottom-up" forecasts by partner, program and region
  • Own the annual and quarterly forecast
  • Own the weekly business tracking process and supporting analytics in the management team
  • Quarterly market reviews
  • Identify opportunities with sales to increase POS productivity and or expand coverage where Beats is underrepresented
  • Support the Beats international leadership team with data, analytics and business insights across all markets

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204% employee growth in 12 months

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Company benefits

  • Everyone has different needs and schedules, and that’s why we offer medical plans that cover both physical and mental healthcare
  • In addition, employees have the option to access medical professionals from almost anywhere and get free confidential counselling — virtual or in person
  • You could also be eligible for help with fitness-related expenses
  • Our medical coverage plans include family-friendly features such as fertility treatments
  • Because we know there’s more than one way to bring a new child into your family, we support all kinds of new parents with paid leave and our gradual return-to-work programme
  • You also get paid time away if you need to care for an ill family member and free guidance to help you find support for childcare, elderly care, legal referrals and more
  • At Apple, we make sure women earn the same as men performing similar work. As part of that effort, your salary history is history — we won’t ask
  • Every employee here also has the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder, because all are eligible for stock grants and also a discount when purchasing Apple stock
  • To help you prepare for retirement, our pension can help you meet your savings goals. And to help you prepare for the unexpected, you’ll have the security of multiple forms of income protection
  • Plan on developing both professionally and personally. Apple University creates classes, seminars and beyond-the-classroom tools that help employees understand Apple’s culture, organisation, values, and role in the world. You can sharpen general business and software skills through online classes
  • For more formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, we’ll reimburse you for certain educational expenses, including tuition
  • Whether you’re exploring personal pursuits, welcoming a new child or caring for a family member, rest assured that you’ll have paid time away when you need it most
  • When you give money to an eligible organisation, we’ll match your donations one-for-one, so your contribution is doubled. And if you choose to donate your time, we’ll contribute US$25 for every hour you volunteer. Whether you donate time or money, Apple will match your contributions up to US$10,000 a year
  • Get the world’s best prices on the world’s best products — Apple products. You’ll also get deals on great third-party accessories
  • And there are services to help you manage life’s day-to-day tasks: dinner reservations, pet-sitters, shopping, personal travel, financial guidance and more

Our take

With a market capitalisation that reached $3 trillion in 2022, Apple is the world's most valuable company. A vertically integrated approach and obsessive focus on the user experience have helped to make Apple one of the most successful companies in the world.

Since taking over at Apple, Tim Cook has been carefully curating the company's reputation as a champion of consumer privacy, trying to set the company apart from others that monetise their users' data.

The company even went as far as to introduce sweeping privacy changes which made it difficult to tailor ads to Apple’s 1bn+ iPhone users. This rocked the $400bn digital ads market, seriously harming the revenue of its bigger rivals in the lucrative industry and forcing them to rebuild their ad infrastructure.

Despite this, the company has been shaken by supply chain issues and moved a considerable amount of its manufacturing from China to India, and increased its Vietnam presence. This is because of multi-pronged production disruption in China, the second largest customer market for Apple, and triggered an estimated 10% revenue drop in the first quarter of 2023.

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