Jobs at ZURU Toy Company

Leads ZURU’s North American omni-channel retail marketing across Toys and Edge. Owns shopper marketing, commercial retail media, retailer relationships, budgets, measurement, in-store activation, digital shelf strategy, and retailer planning across Walmart, Target, Costco, and grocery and drug partners. Manages the omni team, partners with global media leaders and sales, integrates marketing into joint business plans, and feeds North American shopper insights into global brand strategy and product development.

Own category strategy for Walmart’s Exploratory, Plush, and Blasters toy categories. Analyze POS, syndicated, shopper, and competitive data to guide assortment, line reviews, modulars, planograms, seasonal planning, and omnichannel execution. Build dashboards, lead retailer walk-throughs and store visits, influence Walmart buyers with vendor-neutral recommendations, and maintain confidentiality between category-advisor data and ZURU’s commercial teams.

The CPFR Manager partners with major retailers, especially Walmart, to optimize inventory, replenishment, forecasting, promotional execution, and e-commerce fulfillment. Responsibilities include leading S&OP cycles, developing dashboards and KPI reporting, resolving supply chain disruptions, managing inventory transfers and feature orders, supporting Walmart resets and events, and overseeing online in-stock performance. The role also mentors analysts and delivers actionable reporting to replenishment teams.

Leads ZURU’s U.S. trade marketing and commercial operating system across Presence, Price, Place, and Promotion. Builds account-planning, forecasting, category analytics, scorecard, governance, and execution frameworks for Sales teams. Partners with Sales, Finance, Commercial, Category Management, and Analytics to improve retailer strategies, forecast accuracy, promotional planning, launches, and commercial performance. Coaches senior sales leaders, identifies capability gaps, and drives consistent, insight-led execution across U.S. retail channels.

Analyze retailer sales, SKU, inventory, forecasting, product assortment, market trends, and product-level profitability. Prepare forecasts, P&L statements, POS reports, and ad hoc analyses, presenting insights to internal teams and retail customers. Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Commercial, Buyers, and Inventory Planning teams. Identify process inefficiencies, document best practices, and implement scalable improvements.

Leads collaborative planning, forecasting, replenishment, and S&OP activities with major retail customers. The role develops inventory strategies, custom reports, dashboards, and KPI insights; manages replenishment, promotional events, e-commerce fulfillment, inventory transfers, item maintenance, and supply chain disruptions. It also supports joint business planning, in-stock performance, and corrective actions across retailers, 3PLs, warehouses, and stores.

Lead ZURU's commercial partnership with Target, owning P&L, assortment strategy, negotiations, promotional planning, and cross-functional alignment to drive growth across Pet, Household, Confectionary, and emerging categories. Use syndicated retail data to shape category strategy, optimize supply and demand, and scale brand launches while maintaining retailer relationships and execution excellence.

Manage and grow ZURU's business at Target through joint business planning, buyer relationship management, in-store and online execution, and cross-functional collaboration to maximize shelf share, distribution, and P&L performance.

Lead CPFR collaboration with retailers to optimize inventory, own custom replenishment reporting, drive S&OP cycles, manage supply chain operations and promotional inventory execution, and support e-commerce fulfillment strategies.

Support data collection, cleaning, and preliminary analysis. Write and run SQL queries, use statistical tools and Python, produce visualizations, document methods, troubleshoot analytics tools, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver actionable insights.

Lead US retail expansion for Gumi Yum by securing listings across grocery, dollar, club and specialty channels. Manage US candy broker, prepare sell decks and P&L, drive trade execution (pricing, promotion, display), lead retailer negotiations, collaborate cross-functionally, and launch innovations into retail.