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Responsibilities
- Manage the respective product portfolio (existing and new products) including commercialization, market growth, profitability tracking and go-to-market plans. Manage initiatives from scratch in need of market opportunities with operations and contract manufacturers, project management.
- Implement product and pricing strategies (NRM) in alignment with Regional / Global Marketing.
- Based on data analytics, understand consumer / shopper insights competitive trends and key portfolio benefits to best position our branded products to serve consumers. Provide constant feedback to Regional and Global Teams.
- Recommend go-to-market trade / shopper marketing elements including retailer product assortment, pricing, and merchandising (both, in-store and online).
- Support the local Head of Marketing in developing and implementing Media (PAID Digital and non digital campaigns), following the communication strategy based on brand objectives.
Additional Responsibilities
- Develop Customer selling stories (both national and account specific) and coordinate Customers line reviews to help drive top line sales, awareness, and trial of products for customer shelf sets.
- Control the A&P budget of the assigned brand / product category portfolio, ensuring no overspend and key promotions are well managed, providing a clear ROI on all monies spent.
- Orchestrate the Digital customer journey (PAID, OWNED, SHARED, EARNED) from planning to rollout in relevant channels of the Digital funnel until conversion to deliver against KPIs.
Track products P&L and product Gross Margin mix by Category
Foster strong customer care support & best practices to maintain a high level of consumer satisfaction Live LEARN approach : Listen; Empathize; Apologize; Re act; Now
Interactions
- Regional & global Marketing
- Sales, Procurement, finance, operations
- Consumers
- Agencies
Qualifications
- Degree in Business Administration or Marketing.
- Minimum 3 years job experience within brand marketing affairs.
- Experience in supervising outside agencies.
- Experience and proven record in digital marketing, media management & SEO.
Specific Knowledge
- up to date market and customer knowledge
- use and understanding of Nielsen data and any relevant market analytics tools
- deep understanding of KPIs and P&L
- Brand Management, Category Management, and Project Management
- strong competence in Microsoft Office focus on excel
Specific Skills
- strong business communication (written and oral) & presentation skills
- leadership skills, ability to think and act holistic and critical
negotiation skills
- strong in interpersonal relationship management, working in cross-functional teams and matrix environments
- Team player, able to work in mixed teams across different functions