Market Strategy & Planning Manager
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About the Role
Ali Bin Ali is seeking a Market Strategy & Planning Manager to lead category strategies, drive business growth, and ensure in-market excellence. The role involves managing category performance, developing data-driven strategies, forecasting, and collaborating with cross-functional teams and external Principals.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the development and deployment of category strategies that drive business growth, in market excellence, and competitive advantage
- Manage the designated category's performance across channels, identifying key growth opportunities
- Ensure flawless execution of sales business plans through close collaboration with cross functional teams and external Principals
- Build data driven strategies, manage forecasting and budget planning
- Serve as internal category expert and ensure alignment across stakeholders
- Develop internal initiatives execution plan by channel in alignment with CBD Team Leaders
- Obtain necessary budget from Principals and manage funds internally
- Communicate plans to CBD to ensure fast and quality executions
- Train and roll out category knowledge to CBD organization and prepare post event documentation
- Provide Demand function with volume sales forecast to ensure optimum inventory levels
Requirements
- BS Degree; preference for Business Management, Marketing, Business Administration from leading universities
- Minimum 3 years of CBD experience
- Competitive knowledge of trading area & local market trends
- Ability to use best practiced business tools & standards
- Highly proficient in MS Office Tools
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Objective/Purpose of the Job
- Leads the development and deployment of category strategies that drive business growth, in market excellence, and competitive advantage.
- Manages the designated category's performance across channels, identifying key growth opportunities and ensuring flawless execution of sales business plans.
- Builds data driven strategies, manages forecasting and budget planning, and ensures alignment across stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Obtains the needed knowledge regarding the category strategies and key business driver.
- Obtains full understanding of the category performance by channel and spots key opportunities.
- Ensures the deployment of category strategies (dpsm) by cbd teams.
- Analyses and has clear picture of competitive information and activities.
- Leads the internal deployment of the plans to maintain category competitive edge.
- Searches and re applies proven success models.
- Contributes to business and budget planning for the category.
- Serves as an internal category expert.
- Serves as a contact person for the Principals MS&P.
- Works proactively with Principals and Brand Management Teams on developing aggressive sales business plans.
- Manages day to day relationships with MS&P of the Principals to ensure flawless execution of initiatives Master Plan.
- Develops the internal initiatives execution plan by channel in alignment with the CBD Team Leaders.
Job Requirements
- BS Degree; preferences for those with degree in Business Mgt., Marketing, Bus., Admin. from leading universities.
- Minimum 3 years of CBD experience; competitive knowledge of trading area & local market trends; ability to use best practiced business tools & standards; highly proficient in MS Office Tools.
- Thinks and acts decisively.
- Leverage Mastery (business acumen & technical mastery).
- Innovates and reapplies.
- Build diverse, collaborative Relationship.
- Grows capability.
- In touch.
- Embraces change.
- Operates with discipline.
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