Product Manager/Senior Product Manager

Job Title : Product Manager / Senior Product Manager

Department : Emerging Market Business

Location : French West Africa

Reporting : Cluster Head - India

The position would be responsible for conceptualization & execution of Marketing & Commercial strategies in French West Africa markets.

Key Responsibilities:

- Develop a short term &long-term plan for building key brands in markets of operation

- Work on tactical plans & campaigns to drive sales based on monthly, quarterly & annual objective

- Hand hold execution, induct, demonstrate, train & monitor team for execution excellence of designed campaigns & implementation by field force

- Be the point of contact between Office & Markets for Portfolio, New Products & the long-term strategy plan

- Be the custodian of brand plans for MDC & Global brand performance review sheets.

- Sourcing of Trade promo materials, drive Customer relationship management initiatives within the assigned Marketing Budget.

- Manage the spending & saving based on the performance of the brand to influence profitability.

- Work on launch plan for the assigned products as per budget.

- Be the custodian of Sales force effectiveness by training, implementing & tracking the field force automation tool.

- Be on field with team for at least 2-3 weeks ,9 months in a year to handle key accounts, manage KBL relationship, Monitor the return on investment.

- Champion the market research periodically to identify the portfolio expansion, competitive scenario & Strat plan.

- Work hand in hand with Country heads & collectively work towards company defined objectives unconditionally.

- Track all the business development activities in the market , update periodically through monthly performance review meetings.

Skills :

- Creativity & out of the box thinking

- Challenging conventions mindset

- Communication skill with fluency in English & French

- Strong interpersonal & Effectiveness skill

- High on Emotional intelligence

- Marketing, Branding & Project Management.

- Administrative skills

Requisites:

- Life sciences graduation with a post-graduation in management.

- Experience & exposure to pharma landscape in francophone African countries.

- At least a 7-10 years experience in the current domain

- Incumbent should be willing to relocate after the initial period at Ahmedabad on or before 9 months

- During the 9 months person should be willing travel on to the market at least for 2-3 weeks. Job Description for Product Manager / Business Manager