Trade Marketing Manager

Kimberly-Clark; Jeddah; On-site; SAR 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Trade Marketing Manager to join their Jeddah office. This pivotal role involves planning and optimizing trade strategies, focusing on revenue growth and market execution. You will leverage your commercial savvy and financial acumen to influence pricing strategies and drive brand performance. With a commitment to innovation and growth, this organization offers a collaborative environment where your contributions will make a significant impact. If you are passionate about marketing and ready to take on a challenging role, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Professional growth opportunities

Open work environment

Competitive compensation package

Qualifications

• Strong financial acumen and communication skills are essential.
• Experience in category management and project management is required.

Responsibilities

• Integrate RGM initiatives into the financial forecast process.
• Define pricing and promotion policies to realize brand strategy.
• Monitor market pricing and adjust strategies as needed.

Skills

Commercial savviness

Strong financial acumen

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Multi-channel understanding

Category management knowledge

Project management skills

English proficiency

Arabic proficiency

Job description

Description

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In your Sales role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

About Us

Huggies. Kleenex. Cottonelle. Scott. Kotex. Poise. Depend. 25% of people in the world use Kimberly-Clark products every day. And it takes the right people, in the right jobs and the right places, to make that happen.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best teams committed to driving innovation and growth. We’re founded on 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform—so what can you do with that? There’s no time like the present to make an impact at Kimberly-Clark.

About You

As Trade Marketing Manager, you will be part of the team in the Jeddah Office and in charge of planning, overseeing, optimizing, and coordinating how we go to trade through overseeing two commercial transformation levers: In-Market Execution (IME) & Revenue Growth Management (RGM).

Location: When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role’s country only.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Integrate RGM levers/initiatives into the quarterly financial forecast process.
2. Define & mobilize country/channel/customer pricing & promotion policies to realize brand pricing strategy.
3. Run price elasticity diagnostics & make recommendations to optimize pricing strategy.
4. Monitor in-market price ladder realization vs strategic indices & course correct where needed.
5. Run periodic PPA analysis to identify white pack spaces & recommend adjustments/extensions to unlock revenue growth.
6. Review product/channel mix & evolution, defining priority customers/channels/SKUs to drive mix improvement.
7. Run post-promo ROI analysis and adjust promo spend accordingly.
8. Develop & recommend commercial policy investment frameworks by channel/key customer.
9. Define, enable, & monitor DPSM objectives & drivers by category & channel.
10. Analyze, monitor, & report retail audit data; identify gaps & opportunities for insight-driven execution.
11. Develop & oversee execution of NPIs GTM plan; monitor performance metrics.
12. Ownership of BTL A&P budget; plan annual A&P by country, channel, & key customer for core range & NPIs.

In this role, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while prioritizing safety, mutual respect, and human dignity.

Qualifications required:

• Commercial savviness
• Strong financial acumen, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Multi-channel understanding
• Category management knowledge
• Project management skills
• Good knowledge of English and strong command of Arabic

Total Benefits

Our employees value opportunities for professional and personal growth, an open work environment, and the global nature of our company. We offer a highly competitive compensation and benefits package.

For a complete overview, see our benefits information.

To Be Considered

Click the Apply button and complete the online application. Our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit.

In the meantime, please check out our website.

And finally, the fine print…

Primary Location: Jeddah Sales Office

Additional Locations: [Specify if applicable]

Worker Type: Employee

Worker Sub-Type: Regular

Time Type: Full-time