Production Planning Manager

The following essential job functions will be applicable :

• Develop and manage the product portfolio, ensuring alignment with market & distributor needs, and company strategy.
• Plan monthly and promotional campaigns across the direct selling channel across the different markets the client is operating in.
• Pricing : responsible for price setting, developing and driving pricing strategies to maximise sales and profitability.
• Track and analyse campaign performance and where applicable, identify areas of improvements.
• Instrumental in reviewing and selecting product ordering from the client's plants globally.
• Collaborate with digital and content team on the themes and selling tools for distributors and Salesforce.
• Prepare monthly postmortem plans to analyse the performance of a campaign.
• Measure and analyse product and campaign performance, providing recommendations for improvement.
• Communicate and collaborate with cross functional teams and stakeholders within the organisation.
• Deliver campaigns that deliver operating profit.
• Lead demand planning and product forecasting in collaboration with supply chain.
• Track sales performance, highlighting risks and opportunities for product categories.
• Effective management of excess stock tracking performance of plans / products and make plans for excess stock.
• Creative : Work with the creative team in conceptualizing company marketing materials for direct selling channel.
• Distributor queries : effectively handle and resolve Distributor queries pertaining to product promotions.
• Partner with Sales team to work on monthly launches, product training material to support Distributors and Sales Force.
• Reporting and presentations : present monthly campaign sign offs and weekly sales updates to the team.
• Ensure pricing can be finalised within required timelines and campaign product codes and images are loaded.

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