Responsibilities Include:

• Establishing competitive advantage through Innovation and customer marketing expertise, demonstrating operational excellence.
• Ensuring integration of Innovations into the commercial planning calendar, aligning with strategic objectives; develop commercial plans and collaborate to secure commercial alignments required for successful launches.
• Driving flawless planning and execution through the Brilliant Execution Process, supporting transformational change initiatives; deliver the tools and execution materials required to drive world class innovations commercial execution.
• Developing a comprehensive understanding of channel outlet profiles to drive commercial standards implementation. Leverage market trends and internal opportunities to develop effective innovation channel plans.
• Leveraging strong analytical skills to uncover insights, track progress, implement corrective action and deliver against business KPIs.
• Tracking and evaluating point of purchase execution against well-defined scorecard metrics (distribution, visibility, share of shelf, merchandising guidelines, pricing, etc.) ensuring we deliver on time every time to our customers.

Skills Required

• Stakeholder engagements, i.e., managing stakeholders across functions (CR, Supply, Commercial, etc.) and leadership (GMs, HODs, field team, etc.)
• Be a self-starter who can collaborate effectively and deliver results through a team-oriented approach.
• Logical thinking, methodical and a pragmatic problem-solving style that can navigate through organizational barriers and complexities.

Qualifications

• Suitable degree
• Valid Driver’s license

Experience

• Minimum 8 years of experience in sales and/or customer marketing/trade marketing areas with a clear understanding of how sales organizations operate and how to drive its effectiveness.