Assistant Brand Manager
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Location: Mumbai Maharashtra India
Position Title: Assistant Brand Manager
Summary:
The Brand Manager will report to GM Marketing
The role is responsible for developing brand strategy drive consumer demand with the objective of growing market share for allocated brand/brands increase operating profit manage P&L within the limits set by the organization.
The role acts as a lead between different departments Sales R&D Operation & Finance arms of the organization on Marketing plans & innovations.
The manager will also lead efforts in deployment of key initiatives under the supervision of country marketing leadership.
Areas of Responsibility:
Brand Planning
Develop brand marketing strategy and execution plans based on category strategy annual budgets overall sales margins and market share targets brand focus and present to supervisor
Build annual brand portfolio growth plans to achieve the brand growth targets
Develop optimal brands pack type price and channel portfolio to meet consumer segmentation needs while achieving the profitability goals
Interact with division and category teams to discuss brand challenges and short-to-mid term solution.
Conduct in-depth analysis of market consumer and customer analysis to derive data-driven actions to guide the brand marketing plan development and optimization
Conduct ROI analysis to monitor improve and deliver optimum DME efficiency
Marketing Execution Leadership and Management
Drive execution excellence by developing:
o Concepts: develop qualifies and implements insight-driven marketing ideas concepts and innovations across all aspects of marketing mix
o Communication: Lead development and deployment of superior consumer communications across all channel/Accounts/E-commerce platforms
o In-store activations: drives superior in store merchandising sampling and promotion programs to build winning in store impact and consumer off-take
o Agency management: Manage the advertising media PR and promotion agencies to derive superior business results
o Product/packaging innovations: build and drive the continuous stream of product and packaging innovations to achieve sustainable growth for the brands
o Relationship Building: Visit critical markets and key customers regularly to understand latest consumer behavior patterns for all allocated brands
Initiate the PR / PO process by sharing request and required documents; Escalate in case of issues
Creative
Provide brief to the advertising agency for creatives for allocated brands; Seek inputs from Category Head as required
Share media plans for the brands and seek inputs from Category Head to ensure alignment with objectives
Participate in reviewing and finalizing creatives with sync of
Business Analysis and Realization
Conduct in-depth analysis of market consumer and customer analysis to derive data-driven actions to guide the brand marketing plan development and optimization
Conduct ROI analysis to monitor improve and deliver optimum DME efficiency
Personal Capability Development
Responsible and committed for the training and development plan for self
Be the owner for continuous growth under the supervision of the Category Head
Key KPIs:
Brand P&L
Marketing Spend
Competitive Market Share
Brand Health measures: Awareness and Trial metrics
Support in Omni channel acceleration
Minimum knowledge skills and abilities required to successfully perform major duties/responsibilities:
Knowledge:
Strong functional marketing expertise across brand communication brand building / activation consumer insights and new product development
This role require leadership and communication skills across multiple business partners including global innovation global brand teams consumer insights strategy r&d operations packaging design and external partners
Skills:
Strong thinking & problem solving capabilities
High ability to recognize market trends and organize information
Excellent team player
Competencies:
Excellent Marketing skills
Good knowledge on Brand Positioning Brand Communication Brand Building / Activation & New Product development / Innovation
Consumer and market-oriented
Demonstrate a breadth and depth of consumer / market place knowledge; demonstrate the ability to understand consumer / customer insight and attribute that to business decision making
Excellent Project Management
Identifies the processes time and resources required to accomplish project tasks; prioritize steps and work tasks to enable efficient work flow; utilizes best practices to organize people and activities; measures results against key metrics; uses resources efficiently; able to deal with multi-tasks & perform under pressure
Strong analytical & problem-solving skills
Uses a systematic process to solve difficult problems including gathering and examining information from a variety of sources; identifying the root cause of problems; drawing appropriate conclusions; generating viable solutions; and weighing the pros and cons to arrive at a final decision.
Good interpersonal skills
Establishes and maintains constructive and effective relationships built upon trust. Uses diplomacy and tact to diffuse even high-tension situations. Works to find common ground and mutually beneficial solutions to conflicts. Relates well to all kinds of people up down and sideways inside and outside the organization. Can represent his/her own interest and yet be fair to other groups. Viewed by others as a team player.
Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:
Education: MBA (Reputed Institute)
Experience:
1. 3-5 yrs of experience in Brand Marketing
2. From FMCG companies
3. Prior experience of working closely with sales/Retail teams; R&D/Supply chain & external agencies partners
The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The policy of The Hershey Company is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individuals race color gender age national origin religion citizenship status marital status sexual orientation gender identity transgender status physical or mental disability protected veteran status genetic information pregnancy or any other categories protected by applicable federal state or local laws.
The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veterans
If you require a reasonable accommodation as part of the application process please contactthe HR Service Center ().
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
