Product Planning Manager

About the position

Product Planning Manager
Outline
Johannesburg

About the Position:
The overall objective of this role is to develop and implement successful monthly product campaigns within the African continent.

The following are essential job functions which are applicable to the role:

• 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 organization is operating in
• Pricing: responsible for price setting, developing and driving pricing strategies to maximize sales and profitability
• Track and analyse campaign performance and where applicable, identify areas of improvements Instrumental in reviewing and selecting product ordering from Manufacturing 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 organization. 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 the Sales team to work on monthly launches, product training material to support Distributors and Sales ForceReporting and Presentations:
• Present monthly campaign sign offs and weekly sales updates to the team
• Ensure pricing can be finalized within required timelines
• Campaign product codes and images are loaded

Minimum Key Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Management or related field
• 5+ years product planning experience
• Direct selling experience a prerequisite
• Able to display perseverance, resilience, and the required energy to achieve objectives and outputs. Able to initiate action spontaneously without being urged to do so
• Ability to develop new ideas and to create new concepts and solutions to problems
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret data into actionable strategies
• Well-developed computer skills and experience (MS Packages - Word, Excel and Power Point)
• Well-developed planning and organizing abilities, systematic with high level of attention to detail Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Creativity and storytelling ability in product positioning

Please Note: Should you not receive feedback within two months, please consider your application as unsuccessful.

Desired Skills:

• product planning manager
• develop and implement monthly product campaigns
• develop and implement product campaigns within the african continent
• product portfolio
• market and distributor needs
• company strategy
• promotional campaigns
• promotional campaigns across direct selling channnel and across diverse markets
• Pricing
• price setting
• track and analyse campaign performance
• product ordering from manufacturing plants globally
• collaborate with digital and content team
• analyse products and campaign performance
• demand planning
• product forecasting
• work with the creative team
• conceptualize marketing materials for direct selling channel
• partner with the sales team
• Reporting
• presentations
• a bachelors degree in marketing
• bachelors degree in business management
• 5 plus years product planning experience
• direct selling experience
• create new concepts and solutions
• analytical skills
• ability to interpret data
• ability to interpret data into actionable strategies
• well developed planning and organinizing abilities
• systematic
• high level of attention to detail
• excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Stakeholder Management
• Relationship Building
• creativity and storytelling ability in product positioning

Desired Work Experience:

• 5 to 10 years

Desired Qualification Level:

• Degree

About The Employer:

DSA

Employer & Job Benefits:

• Medical Aid
• Provident Fund