EMEIA Digital Business Development Specialist, Apple

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Mid and Senior level
London
Apple

Personal technology company

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Apple

Personal technology company

1001+ employees

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Be an early applicant

Salary not provided
Mid and Senior level
London

1001+ employees

B2CB2BHardwareSaaSTelecommunicationseCommerce

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

  • Demonstrable experience in digital commerce and CX or a similar role, preferably in an eCommerce or technology-focused environment
  • High attention to detail and obsesses over customer experience
  • Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and globally to use knowledge to gain competitive advantage. Demonstrated ability to positively influence people across all functional areas of an organisation
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills; demonstrated success building buy-in for an innovative and bold vision, including presenting to executives
  • Excellent project management, analytical skills and data-driven decision making
  • Demonstrated ability to achieve strategic goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment
  • Outstanding ability to problem solve, develop creative solutions, and demonstrate resourcefulness, while maintaining extreme attention to detail
  • Ability to drive innovation and thinking outside the box
  • Deep knowledge of the digital consumer industry, digital commerce and consumer experience trends and best practices
  • Possess excellent project and/or program management skills with proven ability to drive initiatives from planning to execution
  • Be a deft communicator and collaborator, able to align a complex matrix of teams and functions, build strong and successful sponsorship of initiatives with EMEIA and WW leadership
  • BA/BS or equivalent experience
  • Extensive experience in digital strategy, product, or business development role in a customer-centric environment

Desirable

  • You know yourself—you have strengths, weaknesses and opportunities—but you also know the people around you and are open to their feedback. You relate well to all kinds of people—up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organisation. When faced with a challenging opportunity, you know who to connect with and when. People know you as a true collaborator who knows what it takes to win
  • Apple and third party solutions solve complex business problems in simple and innovative ways. You create competitive and breakthrough strategies that truly shape the future. You do this by asking why and why not, both stripping out what is not essential and identifying what is. By doing so, you are able to see what’s ahead and identify trends that will be critical for growth
  • You believe that communication is key to Apple’s success. You’re a dreamer and someone who actively talks and listens through endless possibilities—with customers and teammates alike. To ensure the most innovative ideas become a reality, you recognise perspectives, patiently listen to every detail and commit to what is right, in order to move us forward
  • You adapt to change and find the right path without necessarily having all of the pieces to the puzzle. At Apple, things aren’t always clear but you shift gears and thrive when asked to explore new ground, rather than waiting on others
  • The ideal candidate has a customer centric attitude, is able to set a clear vision and goals for an outstanding customer & partner experience, is adept at simplifying the complex, and collaborating across a highly matrixed organisation
  • This high-impact role requires a highly motivated and experienced digital expert, with great attention to detail who is able to collaborate with multiple teams to deliver to deadlines
  • The successful individual will be a natural team player, have a strategic mentality, strong project management and analytical skills
  • Deep industry knowledge of the golden standards in digital channel functionality, tools and KPIs is critical for the role.You see the world through the eyes of the customer by deeply understanding their business needs, challenges, and concerns
  • At Apple, we obsess over how people experience our products and services. You not only meet our customers’ expectations, but you exceed them

What the job involves

  • Weekly Hours: 35
  • The EMEIA Digital Business Development Manager, will support regional growth efforts with a focus on developing new digital capabilities, capturing growth opportunities through the development and optimisation of our partners’ digital channels, in collaboration with Regional and Country leads
  • The EMEIA Digital team builds relationships, develops partner capabilities and creates programs—at all levels from tactical to strategic. We collaborate closely with internal and external partners to craft plans that scale the business and adoption of the Apple ecosystem
  • Maximise the knowledge, capabilities & performance of the digital channel business across defined EMEIA routes to market
  • Lead the EMEIA Testing and Optimisation program, from hypotheses to analysis - synthesising conclusions into recommendations and scaling the learning to help implement scalable change across the region
  • Help shape ground-breaking and customer-centric experiences that take into account relevant industry trends, consumer behaviour, and Apple core values
  • Manage customer workshops to inspire best in class Digital CX practices, scope out potential, and create strategic alignment on execution. Ensure all relevant internal and external stakeholders have buy-in and are part of the process
  • Work closely with EMEIA Digital Director to lead the yearly digital planning cycle - including digital initiatives roadmap, OPEX and resource planning in partnership with cross-functional leads
  • Be the conduit between WW + Central + Market teams for all relevant digital initiatives, in partnership with functional leads
  • Coordinate team presentations to senior stakeholders, in partnership with functional leads & Digital Director

Salary benchmarks

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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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

Company values

  • We believe that we’re on the face of the Earth to make great products
  • We believe in the simple, not the complex
  • We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make
  • We participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution
  • We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us
  • We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot
  • We don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self-honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change

Company HQ

Cupertino, CA

Leadership

Tim Cook

(CEO, not founder)

Joined Apple in 1998 and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO in 2011. Previously Spent 12 years with IBM, most recently as director of North American Fulfilment, where he led manufacturing and distribution functions for IBM’s Personal Computer Company in North and Latin America

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