Centurion: Production Planning Manager posted by The Hiring House

About the Role

The Hiring House is seeking an experienced Centurion: Production Planning Manager to join our team. As a key member of our production planning department, you will be responsible for developing and managing the product portfolio, ensuring alignment with market & distributor needs, and company strategy. This is a unique opportunity to work on a high-profile role that requires strong analytical skills, creativity, and stakeholder management.

Key Responsibilities

• 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

• Bachelor’s 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.

Qualifications

• Completed Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Management or related field.
• 5+ years experience in product planning

Salary & Benefits

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