Titan - Assistant Product Manager

1. Scope of the role

Creating and Managing Product Portfolio & Sales for Titan clocks (setting up a new category )

2. Job Profile

- Product management - Conceptualizing and Launching products .Managing product lifecycles end to end - new product launches, product range management, liquidation, Pricing, Packaging, effective sales from channels etc.

- Stocks Management: Display of product as per channel, tracking retail sales and stocks

- Tracking consumer needs, changing consumer preferences, trends and accordingly launching new products

- Product availability - supply at national level against plan & sales forecast - collaboratively with SCM team.

Distribution strategy for products :

- Liasoning with internal (design, sourcing, NPD ) & external agencies (vendor, CFAs, Supply chain) to deliver unique / relevant products to the market

3. Key Deliverables

- Delivering product collections as per customer need / trend and maintaining effective sell through

- Ensuring product gross margins for respective price points

- Retail sales figures as per target

- Aligning product, VM etc

- Ensuring appropriate product mix availability to markets

- Effective Liaison with Design, NPD, Purchase and Sales teams, Ecomm partners etc

4. The right person - Graduate in any discipline with MBA marketing

- 4-5 years- experience in relevant stream

- Good grasp on Trends in lifestyle categories, consumer understanding and ability to convert consumer insights into business initiatives

- Preferably managed a category of similar nature

- Self-starter, capable of managing new business areas

- Good ambiguity management

- Ability for basic financial analysis

- Entrepreneurial skills - ownership / passion for the job, drive for results, innovative approach, etc.

- Some basic understanding of sales operations - hence some prior sales experience

- Drive and patience to handle complex projects