Global Marketing Associate Director

We are a global leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of ophthalmic lenses, frames, and sunglasses. We offer our industry stakeholders in over **150 countries** access to a global platform of high-quality vision care products (such as the Essilor brand, with Varilux, Crizal, Eyezen, Stellest and Transitions), iconic brands that consumers love (such as Ray-Ban, Oakley, Persol, Oliver Peoples, Vogue Eyewear and Costa), as well as a network that offers consumers high-quality vision care and best-in-class shopping experiences (such as Sunglass Hut, LensCrafters, Salmoiraghi & Viganò and the GrandVision network), and leading e-commerce platforms.

Join our global community of over **190,000 dedicated employees** around the world in driving the transformation of the eyewear and eyecare industry.

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**Your #FutureInSight with EssilorLuxottica**

Are you willing to pioneer new frontiers, foster inclusivity and collaboration, embrace agility, ignite passion, and make a positive impact on the world? Join us in redefining the boundaries of what’s possible

**Your role**

Are you passionate about storytelling, brand strategy, and building impactful partnerships in a B2B2C environment? Join us at the heart of EssilorLuxottica’s transformation, where innovation meets optician engagement.

As part of a dynamic and cross-functional team, your mission will be to **bring the brand to life in-store** and **enhance the value proposition of our lenses**, through tailored content, storytelling, and collaborative initiatives. You’ll play a key role in designing experiences and tools that help opticians better understand, recommend, and sell our products.

You will also contribute to **revamping our “Essilor Experts” partnership program**, bringing global intelligence into a highly regionalized model, and exploring new segmentation approaches to scale it with impact.

**Main responsibilities**:

- Develop the global experience BtoB and BtoBtoC through all touchpoints : trade shows, showrooms, in store
- Lead the global Experts 2.0 program with strong coordination with regions : define the partnership program key requirements, concept store, consumer journey, animate a network of regional leaders, leverage expert capabilities from Milan (architects and design team, digital)
- Lead the phygital in-store strategy across the lens brand portfolio (including Varilux, Stellest, Eyezen, Crizal), aligning with key stakeholders and ensuring consistency across all brands and touchpoints.
- Manage the development of all in-store assets for the brand teams & Experts partnership program and cultivate buy-in and adoption by markets.
- Partner with brand and trade marketing teams to develop product demonstration tools, branded fixtures and phygital experiences for activation in stores worldwide.
- Liaise across both wholesale and retail in-store communications and space management teams to ensure an omni-channel in-store strategy.
- Oversee the Digital Broadcasting System for the lens brand portfolio, inputing content into the system, creating timeline recommendations for market activations, and providing market support.
- Manage the global Wholesale Activation calendar, meeting regularly with the brand teams to make sure activation plans stay upto-date.

**Main requirements**:

- Master degree or equivalent in international marketing with a minimum experience of 12 years in marketing.
- Previous optical industry experience or in-store/merchandising experience.
- Results driven and able to manage complex strategic topics that require cross-functional leadership. Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to collaborate effectively with a wide variety of upstream and downstream partners, in an international environment.
- Curiosity to acquire and deepen the knowledge in the field of optics and/or merchandising. Ability to think “consumer” and to carry out more operational B2B2C marketing actions.

**Recruiting process**

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