Centurion: Production Planning Manager

The following essential job functions will be applicable: – 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 client is operating in. – Pricing: responsible for price setting, developing and driving pricing strategies to maximise sales and profitability. – Track and analyse campaign performance and where applicable, identify areas of improvements. – Instrumental in reviewing and selecting product ordering from the client’s 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 organisation. – 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 Sales team to work on monthly launches, product training material to support Distributors and Sales Force. – Reporting and presentations: present monthly campaign sign offs and weekly sales updates to the team. – Ensure pricing can be finalised within required timelines and campaign product codes and images are loaded. Requirements – Bachelors 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 Word; Excel; 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.