Trade Marketing Manager Head

The Trade Marketing Manager is a senior manager role that leads the trade channel marketing (Trade Marketing) group. It is responsible for driving the categorys trade channels growth strategy and for supporting the achievement of this growth strategy via collaboration activities with other functions most especially the brand category marketing and field sales functions. 

This role works closely with the brand category marketing teams and the field sales teams to undertake the critical operations that translate brand and category marketing strategies and plans into detailed operational activities and guidelines for effective and optimized execution across the various sales channels.

It is responsible for developing the category routetomarket strategy: analyzing understanding and creating new avenues for sales growth and new opportunities for making available the categorys brands products and services to customers/shoppers/ consumers.

It works handinhand with the marketing team to support the growth of brands and products by codeveloping and then deploying and measuring the effectiveness of sales and marketing programs including strategies and execution for promotions merchandising and pointofsale activities and marketing materials.

It delivers timely and relevant analyses of sales information and channel analytics: in projections and in performance for the sales and marketing teams finance and supply chain and the rest of the organization for effective business decisionmaking.

Trade Channel Marketing is central to the MarketingSales Operations Management (MSOM) function and serves as a crucial bridge between the brand category marketing and selling teams most especially in the areas of sales channels growth portfolio distribution and availability price execution and monitoring sales forecasting marketing activation merchandising and promotions marketing and  sales operations support sales and offtake information and analyses and business management.

Key Responsibilities: 

1. Lead growth strategy development for trade channels and routestomarket for the companys brands and products.
2. Set guidance for field sales and retail operations teams to execute the marketing strategy and programs in the trade channels and the routetomarket; including portfolio deployment retail standards setting and pricing.
3. Set volume forecast volume allocation plans and pricing execution detail for the sales team as aligned with the brand marketing team.
4. Codevelop marketing activities and programs with the brand category marketing team for deployment into trade channels and routestomarket.
5. Codevelop and deploy brand merchandising strategy and materials as aligned with the brand marketing team into trade channels and pointofsale.
6. Support the execution of marketing strategies and programs into the market and channels.
7. Monitor sales and offtake performance of brands and products by trade channel and routestomarket.
8. Provide sales and trade channel information such as brand product sales offtake and inventory levels to the sales and marketing team.
9. Report competitor activities such as pricing and promotions to the sales and marketing team.
10. Team Development (management and growth of direct reports and their team members)
11. Team Engagement (collaboration and assistance to team members outside of direct responsibilities)
12. Performs other adhoc deliverables as may be assigned by the team leader.

Qualifications :

• College graduate from any degree
• 1015 years experience in trade marketing
• Background in fresh meat industry and/or processed food a strong plus
• Background in retail marketing operations helpful
• Must be adept in trade marketing: trade channel development promo and merchandising operations sales and marketing operations. Experience in both marketing and sales functions highly desirable.
• Excellent analytical mathematical and strategic thinking skills 
• Digital native (Spreadsheets Presentations Word Processing Cloud Sharing Platforms)
• Selfmotivated proactive and assertive
• Biased towards action and results
• Strong interpersonal and team leadership and collaboration skills
• Strong coaching skills
• Systematic organized and keen on details

Additional Information :

• Work location: BGC Taguig 
• Hybrid work setup
• Fieldwork 

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime