Assistant Manager - Marketing Product Development - FMCG - IIM/XLRI/FMS/MDI

About Company: Reputed FMCG Company which deals with the Personal care and a multi-brand, multi-product company with operations all over the nation.

Position: Assistant Manager - Marketing Product Development

Location: Mumbai

Qualification- MBA from Premium B School

Job Description:

End-to-end conceptualization and management of Product Life Cycle in the marketing division. This includes but not limited to:

a. Product development: Products include those developed in newly developed premium gifting channel in the personal care category.

b. Planning for channel placement: Making plans for the placement of these products in new channels such as lifestyle format stores.

c. Product launch planning and execution: Complete end to end responsibility from product conceptualization to launch sale planning and final delivery of the new products.

Role Complexity

The role involves internal and external stakeholder interactions. Regular interaction with vendors (packaging vendors; design vendors; etc) is a pre-requisite for the success of this role.

Products in the relatively newly developed category of gifting in male grooming domain. New launch products in new channels such as Lifestyle Format Stores

Internal stakeholders from the entire value chain (packaging; quality; production; R&D; supply chain, etc) for product development.

All relevant channel managers/heads for the creation of sell-out/ GTM plans and their execution. Monitoring results and reporting the same to management on a regular basis.

Experience Required

- At least 3-4 years of prior experience in a reputed premium FMCG/Lifestyle Retail company,

- Preferably should have handled this level of responsibility in previous assignments

Functional Skills Required

- Understanding of FMCG categories (Personal Care)

- Excellent Communication Skills.

- Strong Analytical skills and ability to think on the go to ensure last-minute hiccups don- t result in timeline/revenue loss.

- Ability to communicate fluently in English is essential.

- Good Computer knowledge. Knowledge of MS Office applications such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Email writing.

- Qualitative and Quantitative Problem Solving Skills

- Presentation Skills