Job title : Senior Category Manager – Avon
Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg
Deadline : November 03, 2024
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What you’ll be doing:
Delivering business growth through BPC market share growth. Key deliverable is the category strategy, enabled by:
- Consumer Closeness (Research interpretation, Insight development, Gap Analysis, Consumer Acquisition strategies),
- Portfolio (PPA, Guardrails, Playbooks), Innovation: Local and Global (PPA Strategy, Briefs, Forecasting, High level launch plans, Approvals)
- Accountable for Strategy Development & Dissemination, and Approval on execution
Key responsibilities:
CONSUMER, COMPETITOR AND MARKET INSIGHTS
- Analyse all research resources (Consumer Panel, Nielsen, TGI, EM, BH, U&A, IMI and other), to derive key insights around consumer, competitor, market, macro trends, untapped opportunities & related growth drivers.
- Continuously incorporate insights into all strategies, plans, briefs, business updates etc.
- Regular performance interrogation with clear insights & actions to course-correct declines or accelerate growth.
ANNUAL (LIVE) STRATEGIES
- Synthesise all inputs into robust, consumer-centric strategies (not tactics or plans).
- Disseminate category strategies (supported with robust playbooks & guardrails) to business partners for execution
- Approve plans in line with shared strategies
PORTFOLIO
- Define & manage locally relevant, optimally productive PPA (right product, right size, right price) in line with consumer needs.
- Responsible for responsible product lifecycle management.
- Develop or access from Global & cascade Category & individual brand playbooks that highlight mandatories, ROTR & guardrails.
INNOVATION
- Accountable for the end-to-end process related to innovation (Global & Local NPD) (Global selections, system updated, estimating sheet adherence updates, strategic insight for innovation, launch pricing, promotional launch plan. Tracking of data & updating relevant brand, innovation trackers etc..) (Local NPD Identify gap, identify size of prize, complete briefs & manage process)
EXECUTION BRIEFS
- Brief all relevant departments on agreed brand calendar events. (tentpoles, brand events, innovation, etc)
- Disseminate / develop brand playbooks / guardrails that will be briefed to creative, and monitored for correct execution through design stages
- Brief all innovation to creative teams
- Approve all plans / executions in line with disseminated strategies, playbooks & guardrails.
PLANNING (ANNUAL & QUARTERLY)
- Prepare & present consumer insights, category strategy & master plans. (Brand plans, portfolio changes, innovation, guardrails, etc).
GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INTERACTIONS
- Influence & critical local input for co-creation of global strategies, portfolio, product pipelines & content, toolkits, etc.
OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES
- Administrative tasks including but not limited to FMR’s field queries, budget management.
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