Category Manager

Discipline: Marketing

Subsector: Brand / Product Management

Location: Bangalore

About our Client: A domestic MNC specializing in consumer durables across the personal care and wellness space with aggressive market expansion plans for India. They are looking for a Category Manager for their Southern Region initiatives.

Job Description:

Reporting to the Chief Marketing Officer; you will be responsible for 360 degree category management responsibility for the personal care category including:

- Complete PnL responsibility for the category pan-India

- Expanding the brands within the category

- Brand Building and Developing

- Supporting the Selling Organization with programs and tools

- Creating 3-5 year strategic plans and annual marketing plans for core brands

- Launching new Brands within the category umbrella along with entry strategies

- Creating suitable advertising and below the line promotions

- Managing external agencies to maximize effectiveness of spend

- Using Market Research effectively to gain deep consumer insight

- Supporting the CMO in creating annual Marketing plans

- Lead a team of highly qualified Brand Managers and Brand Assistants

The Successful Candidate:

- You will be an MBA (marketing) from a top-tier institute (IIM, XLRI, NITIE, MDI, NMINS) with at least 8 years of Sales and Marketing (min 6 years marketing) experience in and FMCG or Durables set-up (preferably Personal care).

- Currently working as a Brand/Product Manager; you will be have strong analytical, strategic, execution and communication skills.

- You will be hands-on and Entrepreneurial; with high growth orientation, business maturity and risk-appetite. You will display the ability to lead and direct large, highly-qualified teams.

What's on Offer: A chance to lead a large team in a leading MNC set-up, while enjoying complete ownership of a large and business-critical category.

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