Regional Portfolio Lead, Personal Care & Infection Prevention - EM

Regional Portfolio Lead, Personal Care & Infection Prevention - EM is responsible for driving sales and profitability growth of Personal Care & Infection Prevention portfolios in the Emerging Markets (The region covering four different clusters; Middle East Africa, India, Southeast Asia and Australia) .

This includes product life cycle management and activation of all innovations into the regional marketplace alongside the development and implementation of various marketing programs.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor s and/or master s degree in engineering, business or a related field

• A minimum of 5-7 years of Marketing experience with strong quantitative and qualitative results

• B2B experience (Experience from multinationals company is a plus)

• Excellent command of both written and spoken English

• Experience with managing product portfolio

• The ability to work remotely with different people from different cultures and coordinate them for common goals

• The ability to think outside the box and define solutions that work

• An analytical and data-driven approach, and the ability to generate insights from this

• The strengths to turn a strategic vision into tangible actions

• Experience in managing both projects and innovation launches

• Strong analytical, organizational and project management skills

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Knowledge of marketing principles, local country marketplace, sales process, products & systems

• Ability to influence and motivate others

• Ability to deliver results through others

• Effective verbal and written communication

• Can do attitude, leads by example, uses and showcases best practice

• Curiosity and an unstoppable need for learning

• Excellent time management and priority setting ability

• Skillful and accomplished with Microsoft office package

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the adaptation and activation of the value proposition for key customer segments across geographies with existing and new customers (including global strategic accounts), through a matrixed team of regional and local marketeers

• Define, implement and deliver with excellence a clear portfolio strategy. Coordinate regional product portfolio management and optimization - analysis and P&L driven approach

• Support the Global Strategy Office in the development of the global long term company strategy (where to play and how to win) and ensure that key strategic initiatives are executed in the region and aligned across verticals and amongst the regional team

• Develop new product ideas, prepare and execute launch plans for new products with appropriate product positioning, segment/cluster specific value propositions for designated areas and product ranges

• Manage innovation cycle - coordinate insights generation and processing, translation into product needs, execution of local/regional/global innovation programs with right market adaptation

• Be a facilitator, collaborator and guide on priorities for other functions, on product/portfolio related matters, working in close partnership with peer function leaders to connect the supporting functions behind overall growth priorities

• Analyze portfolio performance along key metrics, draw implications and develop recommendations based on key market trends. Ensure a high standard of execution and delivery across all projects getting buy-in from stakeholders in terms of key date and deliverables

Why this team at Solenis:

• Possible hybrid model of work

• Participation in international projects

• Opportunity to grow and learn

• Ability to work independently

• Open organizational culture