Field Account Manager - 12 months Contract (Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim or West coast of Norway)

Would you like to build and boost your career by improving LEGO® sales across our partner retail stores in primarily Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim?

Bring your excellent Can-do mentality and passion for retail into play and create huge business impact as well as enabling more play experiences for the builders of tomorrow!

This is a 12 months contract and can be based in Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim or in any other bigger city on the West Coast of Norway.

Core Responsibilities

• Identify new sales opportunities and increase sales in stores through fact based performance dialogues and action plans.

• Implement in-store campaigns and build innovative exposures in store and mirror those online 

• Proactively handle and develop smaller scale accounts by growing sales online and offline.

• Deliver strong selling pitches to the stores to agree on 2nd placements to increase visibility of our products in stores online. 

• Ensure that stores follow visual merchandising guidelines and represent the LEGO® brand for shoppers and consumers. Address any opportunities and coach store teams on every visit. 

• Establish and train store teams with aim to elevate the brand position, standards and execution online and in stores (product knowledge, sales techniques, merchandise standards).

• Attend customer fairs, build relationship and drive growth of your store portfolio.

• Promote total customer service and LEGO® culture, as the most important consideration in every transaction!

Play your part in our team succeeding

As part of the Nordic Business Unit setup, the Field Sales team exists alongside the Sales/KAM, Operations and Marketing teams.

The main responsibility of the Field Sales team is to drive executional excellence through best in class implementation of campaigns & In Store solutions whilst also improving sales through thought leadership and store level advisory.

Do you have what it takes?

• 3+ years of retail management experience in roles like store manager, district manager, sales rep, field account manager or alike

• Strong commercial orientation and understanding of the Norwegian retail landscape and main players in the market (ideally grocery and toy specialists)

• Strong result orientations with the end game (store level execution and sales) in mind. Analytical and commercial approach to drive critical retail metrics and improve in-store performance

• Good understanding and knowledge of driving sales digitally, using SoMe and digital tools for driving traffic, conversion and building brand awareness

• Proven experience in training and encouraging store staff in regards to selling skills, product knowledge, digital marketing, visual merchandizing

• Experience within digital marketing and ecommerce, and how to drive sales with omni players

• A focused, brave and curious mentality and ability to work with agility in a constantly evolving environment.

• Energy to thrive in a field based role with need to display flexibility around ways of working (4 days a week on field/stores) and frequent travel (30-40 overnights a year). Driver license needed

• Strong communication and negotiation skills and possess a positive and independently can-do attitude

• Ability to be structured, process and planning oriented

• Fluent in Norwegian and English

Join the global LEGO® team

What’s in it for you? Here are some of what to expect: 

• Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times. 

• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind. 

• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based 

• Colleague Discount - We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount. 

• Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached, you’ll be rewarded through our global bonus scheme. 

• Your workplace – Our offices will be your primary workplace with flexibility to work from home during your working week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model, role eligibility and frequency with you. 

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong. 

The LEGO Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity. 

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer. 

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights. 

Build your career brick by brick at the LEGO Group.