Regional Manager - Italy

🎯 Your mission

As the Regional Manager at Playtomic, you play a pivotal role in driving regional success through comprehensive market research, industry trend analysis, and strategic balance maintenance between B2B and B2C aspects on the Playtomic Marketplace. Your primary objective is to elevate Playtomic's value proposition and  elevate it as a prominent industry reference point. This involves fostering strong relationships with key stakeholders in the racket sports industry and effectively communicating growth opportunities and strategies. Additionally, you are responsible for facilitating collaboration between regional and central management, ensuring informed decision-making, and achieving measurable results and key performance objectives (KPIs).

👩🏽‍💻 What you’ll be doing

Market Research and Strategy Development:

1. Conduct comprehensive market research to identify growth opportunities and industry trends.
2. Analyse factors influencing growth, including player habits, competitive forces, and industry influencers.
3. Develop strategies to capitalise on identified opportunities and overcome challenges.
4. Stakeholder Relationship Management:
5. Establish and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including competitors, press, associations, and federations.
6. Act as a liaison between Playtomic and external stakeholders, contributing to brand establishment and industry recognition.

Financial Understanding and Performance Analysis:

1. Participate actively in budgeting and performance analysis to develop a strong financial understanding.
2. Understand the impact of financial decisions on regional health and profitability.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

1. Encourage collaboration between different departments to align with company objectives.
2. Embrace innovation and explore opportunities for business growth and improvement.

Customer-Centric Approach:

1. Engage actively with customers, collect feedback, and ensure responsiveness to customer needs (clubs and players).
2. Take a proactive approach to risk management by identifying and mitigating potential risks.

Communication and Reporting:

1. Effectively convey the company's vision, mission, and strategy to internal and external stakeholders.
2. Report on region-specific perceptions, challenges, and opportunities to facilitate informed decision-making.

👥 Who you’ll be playing with

You will be part of a team of 5 people reporting directly to the VP of Consolidate Markets.

🦄 Our Ideal "Player"

1. Financial Acumen: Demonstrated ability to understand financial aspects of the business and their impact on regional performance.
2. Leadership Skills: Ability to lead and support teams, facilitate conflicts management, and provide strategic recommendations.
3. Communication: Excellent communication skills to convey strategic direction and findings effectively. (English and Italian, Spanish will be a plus)
4. Analytical Skills: Strong analytical skills to derive insights from data and make data-driven decisions.
5. Execution and Management: Ability to execute quickly, prioritise tasks, and ensure delivery of results while maintaining effective communication and dotted-line connections with centralised teams.
6. Tools and Processes: Advanced knowledge of tools and processes relevant to the role, with the ability to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
7. Industry Knowledge: Possess a deep understanding of the Marketplace industry including expected growth, trends, and competition.

🤓 Extra points

1. Adaptability: Ability to adapt to complex situations and crises while maintaining relationships and driving Playtomic's objectives.
2. Innovation: Proven ability to innovate and develop new strategies based on industry trends and business needs.
3. Facilitation: Recognized facilitation skills to resolve conflicts and drive change across various areas of Playtomic.

Conclusion (or Main Objective):

The role of Regional Manager at Playtomic demands a dynamic individual with a strategic mindset, strong leadership qualities, and a passion for driving growth and success in the Marketplace industry. By effectively executing responsibilities and fostering collaboration, the Regional Manager will play a vital role in positioning Playtomic as a respected brand and industry leader.

🤝 What’s in it for you

1. Salary: Depending on experience, to be discussed in the first meeting
2. Opportunity to work in a top international team
3. 23 days of vacation + day off on your birthday + 2 days off for Wellness days in August.
4. 1 additional day off per year worked.
5. Gympass discounts in several plans that include gyms, personal classes, access to free apps for wellbeing, nutrition etc.

➡️ Our hiring process

Last, and for you to start warming up, we want to show you what our process looks like:

1. People Manager Interview
2. Hiring Manager Interview with the VP of Consolidated Markets
3. Interview with the Managing Director
4. Team interview to meet one of your future team members!

About PLAYTOMIC 🎾

We're world’s largest racket sports App for players and clubs. Our goal is to socialize sports practice: through the app, players can book courts, find other players with similar skill levels, and join a social community dedicated to playing.

Since 2017, Playtomic has earned the trust of national and international investors, consolidating it as one of the main world players in sports digitalization. You will find +150 co-workers around the world with headquarters in Spain and entities and colleagues in Madrid, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, UK, EEUU and Mexico.

👉🏼 Take a look to our candidate playbook!