The setting
runs an online wholesale marketplace that connects independent retailers with small brands and suppliers. is the side where product brands sell wholesale to retailers, from onboarding and listings to fulfillment and payouts.
The renewal message must promise repeat demand without disguising uncertain buyer quality.
Revenue needs a fast retailer-reorder story while Finance protects spend from an attribution claim it cannot verify.
Who you’d be doing this for
“My founder keeps asking why these stores ordered once, then went quiet or bought direct.”
Kojo Boateng · Wholesale Sales Manager · a character in this brief
Manages retailer acquisition and repeat wholesale revenue for a Platinum+ consumer-product brand.
What is at stake
Retailers are placing first orders, then some are moving repeat business to direct channels. You must weigh a fast renewal narrative against evidence that the paid campaign truly changes reorder behavior.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- renewal urgency vs causal proof
- retailer relevance vs generic scale
- paid commitment vs reversible account concessions
- reorder GMV vs payback discipline
Why Faire
Platinum+ brands depend on retailer acquisition that continues into reorders, not a first marketplace order that moves elsewhere.
Written with these in mind
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Where the organization context comes fromThe postings this brief was written from, and the reporting read before it.
The organization context comes from public information. The situation and characters are written for the brief.
Job postings it was written from
Public descriptions of the work at Faire. They are listed as sources, not as openings. The lines under a posting are its own words, where it meets this brief.
- Senior Product Marketing Manager (opens in a new tab)
- Sharpen the positioning of products that already have a story, repositioning them so they land with a new or shifting audience.
- PMMs partner closely with Product, Design, Marketing, and Revenue to shape programs from the ground up, develop positioning and messaging, lead GTM strategy, and drive awareness and adoption.
- Head of Paid Marketing (opens in a new tab)
- Exemplary budget ownership, with strong partnership with Finance teams to define forecasting and performance narrative across multiple channels and audience segments
- Own and scale global paid acquisition across both sides of the marketplace (retailers and brands) to $xxM annually while hitting target payback/efficiency thresholds; act as the primary executive stakeholder for paid performance
This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.
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