Product Portfolio Strategist

Bebeeproductionplanningmanager; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in production management located in South Africa, Gauteng is seeking a Production Planning Manager. This role entails developing and managing the product portfolio while ensuring alignment with market needs. Responsibilities include planning campaigns, setting prices, analyzing performance, and selecting product orders. The ideal candidate must possess a Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 5 years of experience in product planning, along with direct selling exposure. Strong analytical and communication skills, alongside proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, are essential for success.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in product planning.
• Direct selling experience is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the product portfolio, ensuring alignment with market needs.
• Plan monthly and promotional campaigns across various markets.
• Set prices to maximize sales and profitability.
• Analyze campaign performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Review and select product orders from global plants.
• Collaborate with the digital team on themes and tools for distributors.
• Prepare monthly postmortem plans to analyze performance.
• Handle distributor queries and partner with Sales on launches.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to interpret data

Stakeholder management

Creativity in product positioning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Management, or a related field

Tools

MS Word

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

Job description

Job Description

The Production Planning Manager is responsible for developing and managing the product portfolio, ensuring alignment with market needs.

This includes planning monthly and promotional campaigns across the direct selling channel in various markets.

The role involves setting prices to maximize sales and profitability, analyzing campaign performance, and identifying areas for improvement.

The Production Planning Manager will also be instrumental in reviewing and selecting product orders from global plants.

Collaboration with the digital team is required for themes and selling tools for distributors and Salesforce.

A key aspect of this role is preparing monthly postmortem plans to analyze campaign performance and measuring and analyzing product and campaign performance.

Effective communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams and stakeholders are essential.

The goal is to deliver campaigns that drive operating profit, lead demand planning, and product forecasting in collaboration with supply chain.

The ideal candidate will track sales performance, highlighting risks and opportunities for product categories, manage excess stock, and work with the creative team on marketing materials.

Additionally, this role requires handling distributor queries, partnering with the Sales team on launches, and presenting campaign sign-offs and sales updates to the team.

In summary, the Production Planning Manager must ensure pricing can be finalized within required timelines and campaign product codes and images are loaded.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Management, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in product planning.
• Direct selling experience is necessary.

Benefits

• Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret data into actionable strategies.
• Well-developed computer skills and experience with MS Word, Excel, and Power Point.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Others

• Creativity and storytelling ability in product positioning.
• Able to display perseverance, resilience, and energy to achieve objectives and outputs.
• Ability to initiate action spontaneously without being urged to do so.