Associate Digital Marketplaces

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Altra Running was founded in 2009 with the purpose of unleashing human potential by inspiring the world to move naturally. We want everyone who is capable of running to experience the thrill of finishing their first race, setting a new personal record and shattering limits they never thought they could overcome.

We use our run-improving footwear, unmatched education, and inextinguishable passion for running to inspire everyone to lace up, hit the open road or trail, and start running. Our mission to get everyone who is able out and running may be bold, but we won’t stop trying until it’s a reality.

Altra Running is looking for an exceptional Associate, Digital Marketplaces (Temporary) to join our eCommerce team based in Stabio, Switzerland.

Let’s Talk about the Role

As Associate, Digital Marketplaces for our Altra team, you will primarily support our Amazon business as it scales significantly next fiscal year.

You will independently manage day-to-day operational flows, solve issues and work directly with Amazon, ensuring alignment between brand strategy, commercial priorities, and customer needs. This role requires a more autonomous and structured contribution, with the ability to translate seasonal plans into impactful execution.

You will work closely with Sales, Product, and Brand teams, acting as a key operational point of contact to drive execution, monitor performance, and proactively recommend improvements that enhance brand visibility and commercial impact.

In addition, this temporary role will provide capacity for new Travel Retail initiatives currently in the development phase.

How You Will Make a Difference

You will make a difference by:

• Owning the day-to-day operational flows for Amazon, ensuring timely delivery, consistency, and alignment with seasonal brand priorities.
• Monitoring performance and proactively identifying issues and opportunities, tracking execution, collecting market feedback and reporting on results to share learnings and recommendations for future plans.
• Coordinating with internal teams to resolve operational, stock, content and commercial issues, ensuring clear communication, brand consistency, and effective follow-up across all touchpoints.
• Working directly with Amazon and other external partners as a day-to-day contact, ensuring that agreed actions are followed through.
• Supporting marketplace growth initiatives and commercial planning, contributing to seasonal planning discussions by bringing market insights, customer feedback, and executional learnings.
• Supporting new Travel Retail and marketplace projects.
• Helping improve processes as the channel grows and becomes more complex.
• Bringing energy, ideas and a willingness to get involved wherever needed.

Skills for Success

• A strong collaborator and confident communicator able to influence and coordinate different stakeholders across Sales, Marketing, Product, and external partners, and comfortable dealing with complex external partners.
• Strong operational discipline and attention to detail, with strong project coordination skills and the ability to manage multiple workstreams, deadlines, and priorities with limited supervision.
• Hungry, hands-on and proactive ownership mindset, relentless in following issues through, with the ability to anticipate needs, solve problems, and recommend practical improvements.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), with the ability to prepare clear presentations, trackers, and reporting files.
• At least 1 year of relevant experience, preferably in the eCommerce or marketplace field; experience within the sports, outdoor, footwear, or lifestyle industry is a plus.
• Fluent in English; other European languages are an advantage.
• Comfortable using data, feedback, and market insights to support decision-making and improve execution quality.
• Strong cultural fit with Altra.

VF is a global apparel company connecting people to the lifestyles they cherish through our family of iconic brands. At the heart of our journey lies our purpose: We power movements of sustainable and active lifestyles for the betterment of people and our planet. This is our purpose. It’s the reason we come to work every day. Our purpose unites us and leads us to pursue our goals, together. This is our calling. Learn more at vfc.com

What’s in it for you?   

Most companies like to say they offer a competitive salary, an amazing bonus/benefit and pension scheme as well as staff discounts (btw we offer 50%!). We also do this, only quite different. Because it’s not just our products which set us apart from others. It’s our people and we believe they deserve to be nurtured and looked after. 

That’s why, on top of the usual benefits, we offer much more:

• Career ownership, enabling you to build your knowledge and experience across different brands and even different countries.
• A supportive feedback-based culture where respect and integrity guide us in what we do.
• Tailored training. From a thorough induction to ongoing online and face-to-face training, we are committed to helping you grow, both professionally and personally.  
• An inclusive environment where people of diverse backgrounds, lifestyles and nationalities love working together.
• On site gym offering health and well-being initiatives.
• Subsidized canteen as well as break out areas offering complimentary hot drinks.

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