For more than 170 years, Motul has combined innovation, performance, and entrepreneurial spirit to help shape the future of mobility. As a global community of passionate experts and co-creators, we empower our people to grow, challenge convention, and make a lasting impact through collaboration, continuous improvement, and a shared pursuit of excellence.
Your Mission as the Trade Marketing Manager
Translate strategy into actionable tools, programs, and initiatives that help customers, distributors, and sales teams successfully grow the business. You will drive channel performance, support product launches, build activation plans, equip sales teams, identify growth opportunities, and ensure commercial investments generate measurable business results.
What You'll Do
1. Drive Channel Growth
- Build channel and customer growth plans.
- Identify growth opportunities and performance gaps across Automotive, Powersports, and other channels.
- Support business reviews and commercial priorities.
2. Execute Product Launches & Activations
- Turn product launches into channel activation plans.
- Develop promotions, dealer programs, and customer campaigns.
- Coordinate launch execution with Product, Sales, Supply Chain, and Marketing teams.
- Measure launch success and commercial impact.
3. Enable Sales Success
- Develop sales tools, launch kits, POS materials, and channel programs.
- Support distributor and dealer engagement initiatives.
- Help Sales teams translate product benefits into customer value.
- Contribute to training and product adoption initiatives.
4. Generate Insights & Action
- Analyze market trends, customer behavior, and competitors.
- Identify growth opportunities and risks.
- Turn insights into practical recommendations for the business.
What You'll Deliver
• Channel plans and execution standards
• Promo and activation calendar
• POS and merchandising kits
• Launch-in-channel plans
• Sell-out and store-audit dashboards
What We're Looking For
Experience
•7–10+ years in trade, channel or shopper marketing, with part of it in a distributor-led route to market
•Built channel plans or execution standards, and audited them in the field
•Designed trade promotions or loyalty programs and measured their return
•Executed launches into distributor, dealer or retail networks with Sales and Supply Chain
•Works with sell-in and sell-out data (Excel, Power BI); writes a business case
•Leads Sales, Marketing, Product and Technical without formal authority
Technical Skills
- Promotional Planning
- Trade Activation
- Sell-In / Sell-Out Analysis
- ROI Analysis
- Performance Reporting
Why Motul?
Make an Impact
Work on high-visibility initiatives that directly influence product launches, channel performance, customer engagement, and business growth.
Global Exposure
Develop your career within an international organization operating in more than 160 countries.
Continuous Learning
Expand your expertise through exposure to Product, Sales, Technical, and Marketing functions while building a broad commercial skillset.
Collaborative Culture
Join a business where Product, Technical, Marketing Communications, Trade Marketing, and Sales work together to create results.
A Passion for Performance
Become part of a brand that lives and breathes performance through innovation, motorsports, partnerships, and customer excellence.
Become a Co-Creator of Performance
At Motul, performance isn't simply achieved. It's co-created.
If you're passionate about turning strategy into action, helping products succeed in the market, and creating measurable business impact, we'd love to hear from you.
Join Motul and help shape the future of performance. 🚀🏁