Manager/Sr Manager - Marketing/Client Servicing

We have vacancy for Manager-Marketing & Client Servicing for our clients who are a professionally managed organisation based in Worli, Mumbai. The organisation aims to provide retail-analytics solutions to help kiranas & general stores to professionalise & automate their processes with a view to improving their efficiency, turnover & profitability. Our clients will enable small & medium sized retail outlets to analyse the fmcg brand offtake trends at the retail stores to provide solutions to vastly improve thes sales & profitability of the outlets. Our clients offer excellent salary + incentives.

Company Profile: Our client is a pioneering organisation focusing on Market Research & Analytics for fmcg products to improve performance and market shares of consumer/retail organisations. The organisation has identified highly potential niche segments and would be using a state-of-the-art technology platform to build a leadership position in this segment. Plans are to be a national player in next few years itself.

The organisation has been promoted by entrepreneurs who have had a highly successful track record of creating an organisation in a niche segment in the services-technology the electronics payments space and managed to maintain leadership position through-out with over 40% market share. The organisation was the leader in promoting and enabling non-cash based electronic retail transactions in India, partnering with banks, merchants and schemes. The organisation pioneered the concept of shared services, through the use of its infrastructure, for card and transaction services in India and offered comprehensive acquiring, issuing, and related services to create a leadership position, managing over 200,000 merchants. The founders completed a highly successful divestment of the company to a global giant in end 2010, thereby providing continued growth prospects to the company and its 600 employees.

Our clients offer an excellent opportunity to start from zero-base and be a core team-member to build a national level prestigious organisation in the research & analytics space. Our clients offer an ethical work environment, excellent remuneration and excellent career growth prospects.

USPs for this position:

1. Unique opportunity for growing with a high-technology professionally-managed start-up organisation in Retail Research & Analytics space;

2. High-success track record of promoters in terms of launching & upscaling niche, high-technology & pioneering verticals;

3. Rapid scale-up of operations: Plans are to be a national player in next few years itself.

4. Success stories of employees A number of professionals who had been employed by the previous company of the promoters have grown phenomenally in terms of professional achievement, satisfaction, growth, peer-visibility, credibility & financial status

5. Backed by excellent PE funds and deep financial pockets

We are looking at professionals with excellent fmcg career track records and keen on taking up challenging assignments and growing rapidly careerwise with a fast growing / niche recently started Market Analytics organisation with ambitious National-level scale-up & growth plans

Profile of the top management of the company:

1. Head Sales: MBA from a prestigious management college and over 17 years experience in FMCG companies including Dabur, Wrigley etc.

2. GM-Sales: MBA from IRMA with 9 years experience in FMCG companies like GCMMF (Amul) ,Wipro Consumer Care, Pidilite

We have the following vacancies based in Mumbai.

Manager-Client Servicing & Solutions

Job Profile: The organisation is building a client servicing team to develop relationships & business from FMCG companies through offerings of Business Insights, Operating / Demand Chain Automation and Shopper /Consumer Relationship & Bonding.

Job Description

- Build and manage an ongoing business relationship with major clients - FMCG as well as 3rd party alliances

- Understand the ever evolving requirements of clients and service them with the client's bouquet of products

- Work with Team Lead Client Initiatives and Functional Head to create customized solutions as per the FMCG brands challenges and needs, using existing and new platforms/products

Internal Interfaces

- Liaison with Product Architecture, Technology & Sales teams

External Interfaces

- Liaison with FMCG brands to design and develop solutions for major FMCG brands

Candidate Profile: MBAs with 3-8 years experience in fmcg marketing or marketing services (advertising, media buying, market research). Must have experience in handling FMCG/consumer healthcare/ OTC products. Exposure to ground activation, trade marketing, sales promotions etc will be an added benefit

Desired skills - Functional

- Marketing oriented mindset with ability to translate research insights into actionable marketing campaigns

- Detailed exposure to Market research, Retail audits

- Hands on experience on Consumer insights and activation, Handling of Brand Advertising & Promotions Budgets would be a bonus

Desired skills - Behavioural

- Ability to work in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, startup organization

- Planning & organizing

- Strategic thinking

- Good at problem solving

- Analytical ability

- Team player

- Goal oriented

Interested professionals may contact Shreya (9892953381) or mail their latest CV in Word.doc immediately giving REF:M-CS