Senior General Manager/Vice President - Marketing - FMCG/Skincare/Beauty/OTC Business (10-18 yrs)

Position: Sr GM/VP Marketing

Location: The candidate should be open for any location in West or East India.

Industry: FMCG, Skincare, Beauty, OTC or similar

Experience: 10-15 years in Marketing and at least 3 years in a position of similar responsibility

- Assumes for group of brand responsibility for monitoring all marketing and branding activities for the brand while maintaining brand focus internally & externally.

- Develops the marketing & brand management strategy of Brand to support top line & bottom-line growth & foray into new segments and innovative products.

- Directs the evaluation of Brand portfolio including brand definition & proposition, advertising concept, pricing, packaging, place and promotion for each category & brand.

- Assumes overall responsibility for Brand Activation.

- Ensures co-ordination with sales department to implement & monitor all marketing initiatives.

- Ensures effective media evaluation & planning attain maximum ROI by coordinating with key media providers.

Strategic:

- Scans the business environment to explore options for revenue generation from new and existing customers.

- Drives the formulation of marketing strategy of the organization encompassing all brands.

- Understands the strategic business requirement of the organization based on the organization growth focus and strategy.

- Strategies on new product development & reaching to new segments by continuously scanning the business environment for untapped consumer bases based on market intelligence.

- Leads and finalizes brand plans & growth avenues and their strategic fit with corporate plan.

- Assumes overall responsibility in formulation of Brand vision, brand architecture & plan for brand extension.

Operational:

- Guides brand & category managers to develop these strategies into detailed marketing plans and executions.

- Ensures individual brand focus is maintained through all possible media options and coordinates with corporate communication to ensure alignment of branding strategy of the organization and individual brands.

- Ensures that the brand identity is leveraged by aligning the brand strategy with the brand identity.

- Takes overall responsibility for Product Conceptualization, positioning & New product development in co-ordination with R&D.

- Monitors Brand health, product performance segment wise and aligns actions to Marketing strategy.

- Co-ordinates with Market research agencies to get feedback on existing products and on their availability & brand equity.

- Co-ordinates with media agencies for effective media planning & evaluation to ensure optimal ROI on all media investments.

- Gathers relevant data continuously on pricing patterns to aid pricing decisions of all brands.

- Regularly collects and analyses competitor information through market intelligence and other sources.

- Scans the business environment on a continuous basis to identify, analyze and capture market trends and demands and provides developmental feedback for capability building targeted at catering to the market's present and future requirement.

- Develops market entry strategy for previously untapped geographies based on market intelligence.

- Evaluates marketing consultants employed on their deliverables and ensures desired results are achieved.

- Develops standardized Systems and Processes to enhance performance and remove redundancies.

Financial:

- Develops Annual Plans & Budgeting for the brand and monitors the expenditure.

- Ensures Optimal pricing of products so that the top-line & bottom-line objectives of the brand group are strictly met.

- Strives to increase return on expenditure on advertisement & brand endorsement.

People:

- People Ensure timely PMS implementation adhering to specified procedures.

- Interacts with all employees on a regular basis to understand their key concerns and ensures development of systems and policies that are enabling in nature.

- Ensures that the marketing team is adequately trained in both functional and behavioral aspects on a regular basis.

- Takes responsibility for people development initiatives and building up of in-house capabilities aimed at succession planning for all key positions reporting to the position.

- Provides the necessary leadership and guidance to key employees and top performers through mentoring and identification of best practices to enhance performance excellence