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Associate Director - Modern Trade & CSD
4-10 years
Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi + 4 more
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Associate Director - Modern Trade & CSD
Abbott
posted 20d ago
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Job Description
Overall responsible for handling the Modern Trade & CSD business in India which would include:
- Driving sales
- Financial Management (including managing individual account / business P&L& the SG&A)
- Annual Business Planning and review
- Relationship Management
- Ensure stock planning and fill rate levels
- Meeting the top line sales objective with Modern Trade & CSD
- Overall responsible for sales across the country.
- Interacting with the Brand Teams and developing business plans in sync. With the brand strategy.
- Ensuring stock availability (fill rates of 85%) at all the outlets with a high degree of forecasting accuracy.
- Managing the Customer-wise profitability with Modern Trade & CSD.
- Setup a model to measure each Account profitability.
- Ensure that resources including manpower are utilized in the most cost-efficient manner
- Ensure activities with key accounts are done to maximize returns for ANI
- Ensure collection is done for direct customers as per the company norms and facilitate wholesaler s collection for indirect customers.
- Drive Category Management with Modern Trade
- Work with activation and Accounts to do a shopper study on the category.
- Use inputs from the shopper study to take the role of Category Leader with top Accounts.
- Category Leader would involve advising the account on category layout, plannogramming, and special SKU s, jointly working on exclusive promotions, etc. and overall enhancing category profitability and growth.
- Deliver the Perfect Punch in terms of Modern Trade & CSD
- New products introduction.
- Pack changes.
- Price increases.
- Enrolment of new outlets.
- Consumer promotions and other activities.
- Develop a strategic business plan for Modern Trade that would cover the following aspects
- Margins.
- Visibility.
- Exclusive SKU strategy.
- Agreement for activation activities.
- Explore the possibility of enhancing the product portfolio by developing exclusive SKU s & importing international brands
- Use insights of shopper studies to develop different SKU s for modern trade
- Scan the products available in the international market and look at the possibility of importing the same to sell exclusively through the modern chain outlets in India
- Setup a high performing team to manage Modern Trade & CSD
- Attract and retain the best talent.
- Develop competencies of the Sales Team with a strong training program.
- Have a strong succession plan in place.
- Enrich the team with technology to have a cutting edge.
- Setup world class processes to handle Modern Trade & CSD
- Liaise with international coordinators to ensure accounts strategy is in sync. with the global accounts.
- Setup world class processes.
- Scan the environment and ensure that ANI is the first to exploit advent of a new international modern trade chains.
- Provide strategic inputs to the organization on the Modern Trade
- Modern trade potential in future.
- Changing scenario in trade.
- Changing structure for Modern Trade within the organization.
- Liaise with ANI global business coordinators for Wal*Mart and Carrefour respectively
- Ensure the policies followed in India with the above accounts are in line with the global policies.
- Bring on board the global best practices followed with these accounts into India.
- Manage the sensitivities of global Vs Indian operations.
- Organize Top to Top meetings with the major retailers
- Meeting between Retailer s top management and ANI GM and BU Head - Trade.
- Share growth and expansion plans of ANI in India and make the retailers partners in progress.
- Manage industry interfaces and keep the organization informed about developments in the retail sector
- Develop good relations with counterparts in the FMCG industry.
- Develop good relations within various Industry bodies like the ECR, RAI, etc.
- Share best practices in the industry with the KA Team, so as to enhance internal system and processes
- Anticipate trends in the retail industry so that internal system and processes can be geared to meet the evolving retail environment.
- Managing the SG&A and ensuring the same is within agreed numbers
- Allocating funds within accounts and having a control on the spends
- Control on the teams and self TA&DA SG&A budgets
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Education
Post Graduate
Education Level
Major/Field of Study
MBA/ PGDM
Sales & Marketing
Minimum Work Experience
Experience
Experience Details
12+ years
- Experience in Managing a team in a reputed FMCG Company in the Sales / Marketing function
- Extensive knowledge of marketing and brand plans.
- Good grasp of distribution and logistics management.
- Understanding of financial and legal regulations.
- Networking and strong orientation towards customer management.
- Ability to handle pressure in a dynamic environment.
- Sharp negotiation and influencing skills. 9. Strong Account and Industry relationship at relevant Contact matrix within MT and CSD
Minimum Licenses and Certifications
Licenses/ Certifications
Other License/Certification
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
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