Assistant General Manager - Marketing Activation - Personal Care/Skin Care

Assistant General Manager - Marketing Activation /Personal care /skincare

- Defines the brand & its proposition & activation, its advertising concept, pricing, packaging, and promotion.

- Co-ordinates with sales department to implement & monitor marketing initiatives for the brand.

- Ensures effective media evaluation & planning attain maximum ROI by co-ordinating with key media providers for the Brand.

- Planning, strategising and ensuring the implementation of the strategies to achieve the brand objectives.

- Ensures that the brand's equity is nurtured & nourished in keeping with strategic objectives.

- Assists in developing and executes the marketing & branding strategy to improve market share and reach.

- To develop, recommend and lead the execution of local marketing plans for assigned brand/s and manage the effective deployment of the marketing budget.

- P&L Management - including Media plan, BTL Plan (consumer experience to grow) and Trade plan

- Develops a strategy for the brand in alignment with the corporate plans and overall marketing plans.

- Coordinates with advertising & research agencies as well as consultants to develop suitable brand initiatives to position the brand in keeping with the above identity

- Plans ATL & BTL so as to deliver the required value proposition, as derived from the above brand identity

- Develops annual plans and budgets for the brand.

- Keeps track of all brand related expenditures vis-a-vis budgets.

- Provide strategic guidance to brand managers to develop these strategies into detailed marketing plans and executions (with special emphasis on-the-ground activities).

- Coordinates with internal & external media agencies for implementation of the Brand's strategy.

- Coordinates with other departments like Sales, R&D, Finance, Integrated Planning, Sourcing & HRD for product & brand related requirements.

- Ensures that the brand focus is maintained through media & PR activities.

- Conceives, develops, proposes, implements & controls attractive sales promotional -drives across various levels of trade & consumer franchise.

- Tactical communication (Consumer offer film) development

- Develops systems within brand teams which facilitates better MIS and synergy of operations

- Assists in developing market entry strategy for previously untapped geographies based on market intelligence

- Undertakes all market research for obtaining feedback on various aspects of the brand

- Monitors and tracks of performance of brand based on specified criteria.

- Plans and ensures required marketing support for brand in terms of advertising, promotion, schemes etc in co-ordination with sales team.

- Monitoring and analysing the Retail Audit for planning.

- Ensures that the top-line & bottom-line objectives of the brand are strictly met.

- Develops various schemes incentive / discount to increase the contribution of the brand.

- Interacts with Brand teams regularly for understanding their needs in different areas (Systems, Operations, Brand Management) and ensures necessary actions

- Ensures that the team is adequately trained in both functional and behavioural aspects on a regular basis

- Supports development of a performance driven culture amongst all employees by implementing the PMS within the brand team