Retail- Industry Marketing- Sr Principal

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About the Role:

As a retail fellow your responsibilities will be as follows.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy Development: Take UKG's overall strategy and solution set and tailor it to support the unique needs of retailers and hospitality providers.

• Trend Analysis: Conduct thorough market research and analysis to identify the macroeconomic trends impacting retail and map them to the challenges UKG solves and the value it delivers

• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including sales, marketing, product development, and customer success, to ensure alignment and successful execution of the industry strategy.

• Influence & Thought Leadership: Serve as a thought leader and industry expert, representing the company through written and spoken communication during sales cycles, at industry events, supporting demand creation, participating in industry associations, and representing UKG in media engagements.

• Customer Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with key customers and UKG stakeholders in the retail sector to understand customer needs and outcomes. This would be activated by your ability to recruit customers to develop success stories and develop a customer advisory board

• Innovation: Through your expertise and knowledge of the market increase the value of the UKG offering by tailoring our messaging to ensure it resonates with retail customers' unique needs and take back insights gained from your interactions with the market to influence the product road map and ecosystem strategy.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, or a related field

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in the retail industry working with significant experience managing store teams

• Strong critical thinking skills and demonstrated creativity.

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills that can create and nurture relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of Human Capital Management software and its applications in the retail sector.

• A passion for Retail industries and the workforce

• Excellent political and business judgment

• Strong reputation for ethical conduct and unquestionable integrity

• Team player capable of performing independently

• Strategic thinker with demonstrated skills to swiftly execute

• Demonstrated success in aligning with business needs with compelling HCM solutions

• The ability to understand how software can generate ROI for our customers

• The ability to understand how product features address industry challenges

• Influences internal/ external business and/or regulatory issues; makes decisions that have significant impact on UKG and/or the UKG's existing customers and prospective customers.

Where we're going

UKG is on the cusp of something truly special. Worldwide, we already hold the #1 market share position for workforce management and the #2 position for human capital management. Tens of millions of frontline workers start and end their days with our software, with billions of shifts managed annually through UKG solutions today. Yet it's our AI-powered product portfolio designed to support customers of all sizes, industries, and geographies that will propel us into an even brighter tomorrow!

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The pay range for this position is $159,000 to $229,800, however, base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and location. This position is also eligible for a short-term incentive and a long-term incentive as part of total compensation. Information about UKG's comprehensive benefits can be reviewed on our careers site at https://https://www.ukg.com/careers