Associate Manager, Customer Marketing

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Associate Manager, Customer Marketing

Location : Cairo, Egypt

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Reporting into the Customer Marketing Manager for MENAPT Cluster, you will play an important role in developing the Customer Marketing strategy for the assigned categories for Egypt market. You will be in close collaboration with Marketing, Sales and Supply Chain Teams. You will do deep analyses of the market, customers and shopper dynamics, will come up with insights to be converted into action plans across the channels.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead development of Category Development Strategy to achieve defined business objectives for category in charge by designing in-store strategy covering multiple pillars, i.e. BTL communication and in-store materials, price architecture, category assortment, planogram and consumer promotions

• Lead market execution of new launches, define quarterly cycle priorities and cascade the plans on channel basis to the field team through meetings and quarterly distributor meetings

• Lead cross-functional relations with key stakeholders, Marketing, Sales and Supply Chain Teams

• Manage the budget in charge while overviewing Trade Money initiatives

• Responsible for management of shopper/channel initiatives and investments for the category

• Utilize multiple data resources for better understanding of market trends, competition, channels as well as shopper insights driving a high-quality channel/trade plan

• Utilize Nielsen reports on a monthly basis to understand the market on region basis as well as define opportunities for market share and distribution across

• Support Sales Team in the development of Joint Business Plans with major customers and distributors securing an alignment on activations

• Work on defined processes to develop promotional packs, performance trackers for sales, shares, distribution and initiative ROI

• Takes an active role in S&OP process ensuring the connection between marketing plans and market execution and sales

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

• Graduate degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing or similar

• Commercial FMCG background with solid practical experience

• At least 5+ years and plus of experience with preferably 2 years in customer/trade marketing

• Strong command of English (written and verbal)

• Understanding and knowledge of the Egypt retail environment and FMCG dynamics

• Strong use of MS Office

• Highly organized with the ability to multi-task and prioritize

• Strong communication and team working skills

• Strategic mind set, understands the strategic & tactical nature of the business

• Analytical skills  

PREFERRED EXPERIENCES AND SKILLS

• Understanding of Nielsen syndicated data

• Multi-function and multi-tasking abilities

• Clear understanding of the different RTM principles/strategies for channels

• Team building skills

• Self-starter, acting with integrity

JOB REQUIREMENTS

•  Full time job

• Max 10-15% travel time within Egypt, visiting distributors for cascading the quarterly plans as well as visiting trade to observe market dynamics

This role is not eligible for relocation.

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