Avolta is the world’s leading travel experience player. With a traveler-centric philosophy and a geographically diverse network, the travel retail and F&B company addresses the needs of up to 2.3 billion passengers each year, with 5,500 outlets in more than 75 countries across six continents. Guided by their Destination 2027 strategy and boosted by their recent combination with travel F&B giant Autogrill, the company is well positioned to realize their ambition to create a Travel Experience Revolution through their many locations at airports, motorways, cruise lines, seaports and railway stations amongst others.
Operation Product Manager - 100% - Maternity Leave Coverage – Temporary until February 2026
Purpose
Accountable for planning, monitoring and maximizing retail budgets, guarantee product availability at all times and to ensure the correctness of the merchandise in the shops.
Key Accountabilities
Operations
- Analyze Category and Brand performance, on weekly and monthly basis
- Confirm the correct implementation of Pricing Policies and Advertising Spaces
- Coordinate the implementation of the Promotional Plan. For those periods without a Central Promotion, proposes and coordinates with Category Managers/Procurement the negotiation with Local Promotions and submit them to the Airport General Manager for approval
- Follow-up promotion’s implementation (stock availability, marketing material, tasting…)
- Ensure the correct execution of Marketing strategies and Visual Merchandising guidelines
- Responsible of Item Management (report to Master Data team any errors found)
- Responsible for reporting assortment issues to Procurement that liaises with Central Master Data
- Receive suppliers in the shops and accompany them during their visit, ensuring an effective working relationship
- Organize and execute Stock takings to make necessary adjustments for stock optimization (negative stock, phantom stock…)
- Review Stock Quality and coordinate with Supply Chain or Procurement the actions to be taken
- Coordinate and follow-up with Global Procurement to take actions on overstocks, novelties, destructions
- Collaborate with Country Category team on necessary actions to increase sales revenue
- Inform and coordinate price changes to Shift Supervisors
- Responsible for correct implementation of Micro Space-Planning
People
- Provide valuable feedback to central teams for constant improvement
- Develop a Product Training Plan according to the overall objectives of the Category. In coordination with HR, negotiate the plan with suppliers
Requirements
- Knowledge of effective merchandise presentation standards
- Understanding of Travel Retail concepts
- Good problem-solving Skills Languages
- Fluent English; proficiency in other languages is a plus.
- Additional languages as applicable for Area
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, 5 years Commercial experience with at least 2 years’ experience in management role