Brand Manager: OTC- Cough and Cold – Gauteng needed at Aspen Pharma Group
Job title : Brand Manager: OTC- Cough and Cold – Gauteng
Job Location : Gauteng,
Deadline : April 25, 2024
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OBJECTIVE: Drive sustainable, profitable growth of the product portfolios/ therapeutic categories with appropriate strategic direction, brand stewardship and commercial acumen.
MAIN DUTIES:
- Develop across various portfolios/brands strategies for sustainable business growth and profitability, consisting of mainly OTC cough and cold products.
- Anticipate future trends in disease management and the market environment
- Develop promotional and advertising strategies that grow brand market shares against competitors in all channels (pharmacy, retail, wholesale and informal trade)
- Analysis of the market, channel and patient and development of insights that are applied to develop robust brand plans
- Provide creative direction for brand/ portfolios strategies and manage Agency outcomes
- Implementation, monitoring and measurement of the success of the developed strategies and to ensure that they are flexible to adapt to a dynamic environment
- Successful implementation and monitoring of the roll out of the above with the required measurements in place for successful outcomes
- Enthusiastically communicate plans and results with the business leadership and relevant teams within the business at all times
- Drive, lead and take accountability for the budgeting process, control of A&P expenditure and achievement of financial targets
- Develop and implement pricing strategies that ensure healthy profit margins and competitive advantage for the Portfolio
- Continuously communicate with and support the sales teams with high levels of integrity and urgency to help them achieve sales targets
- Ability to manage the cross functional networks and channel resources for the portfolio to drive profitable growth with the required and shared accountability to achieve business targets
- Understand, challenge and implement the regulatory requirements to develop and implement strategies and tactics that drive brand growth
- Forecasting accuracy and stock management which entails minimizing stock write-off costs and returns
- Support Key Accounts in managing wholesalers’ stock holding and backorders, where required
- Using insights acquired both internally and externally to accurately assess market potential for new product introductions and/or renovations of existing products
- Managing and taking the lead/accountability in driving the New Product Launch process together with the relevant stakeholders like NPL, Demand Planning, Regulatory Affairs, Medical and others
- Lead and utilise both internal and external conferences, congresses to position the brands as foremost in the target audience’s minds
- Sense of urgency in resolution of customer queries
Requirements
SKILLS & COMPETENCIES:
ENTHUSIASM, PASSION AND HIGH ENERGY ARE KEY REQUISITES
- Commercial acumen
- Analytical skills
- Project management
- Networking ability
- Interpersonal skills
- Ability to perform under pressure
- Self-starter and self -motivated
- Sense of urgency
- Prioritizing and planning
- Verbal and written communication skills
- Aptitude for continuous learning
- Influential and impactful presentation skills
- Adaptability and flexibility in a changing environment
QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE:
- Matric
- Relevant Post matric Marketing/Health Science qualification
- 2-3 years Brand Management experience; Cough and Cold portfolio (advantage)
- 2-3 years OTC Marketing experience
- 2 years Pharmacy sales experience.
- Applicable industry knowledge.
- Financial literacy
- Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Word
- Ability to work on Qlikview models is advantageous
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