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Job Title                : Marketing Manager – Vet Pillar

Location                : Mumbai

Business Segment: Royal Canin India

Job Level                : T2

Line Manager        : Vet & Pro Pillar Head

 

Job description:

Drive engagement with Veterinarian through continuous education and right offering to enhance the practice and to be positioned as most preferred brand to work with.

Achievement of budget – sales and profitability (volume and turnover); and Achievement of distribution targets (qualitative)

Overall achievement of volume and turnover budget for RC through the development of a channel marketing strategy.

The focus of the Position is on the Royal Canin product range.

Educating our veterinarian and internal teams on basic scientific knowledge – Nutrition/dog & Cat education/Reproduction with the help of Scientific communication team

Channel Management

• Develop channel strategy
• Develop channel action plan (promotions, communication, merchandising, exhibitions and shows, roadshows, loyalty incentive programme and training).
• Manage and implement channel action plan.
• Manage budget.
• Liaise and build relationships with advertising agency, suppliers, distributors, veterinary clients, Vet university , vet association , internal clients and other business partners.
• Build collaborative partnerships with industry partners.
• Monitor market trends and competitor actions.
• Engage with consumers, develop innovative ways to interact with them directly and build immediate & meaningful dialogue with them.

 

Launches & Campaigns

• Develop and manage launches & campaigns to achieve quantitative and qualitative budget targets for Royal Canin.
• Develop and source marketing / sales tools (e.g. point of sales, educational books,poster  etc.) and promotional items (clothing, models , etc).
• Organise and coordinate product launches, roadshows, shows and exhibitions.
• To assist with the forecasting of new product launches and campaigns
• To maintain the promotion and product launch forecast

 

Communication

• Develop, negotiate, manage and implement in-house promotional plan.
• Assist in developing training and educational programmes for Vets , end-users, internal staff & vet studets.
• Maintain good internal and external communication.
• Related correspondence (queries, complaints, etc.).
• Create brand awareness and build brand image.
• Merchandising:
  Communicate effectively and coordinating with local suppliers, to develop local marketing tools.
• Plan and maintain a record for all merchandising done in outlets across pillars.
• Inform, engage, and follow sales team achievements during marketing and merchandising campaigns.
• Assist in maintaining a record of all the marketing material in physical and electronic form.
• Track the merchandising stock level at warehouse and manage efficient distribution of the tools into the market.
• Ordering all marketing tools and coordinating with logistics when receiving or sending tools.
• Making sure all tools are in the warehouse in time for distribution.
• Updating and sending a list to the sales teams to order tools regularly.

Others:

• Deliver the vet pillar Numerical distribution, volume and NSV targets for the year.
• Analyse cube/Navision data periodically, both pillar wise and area wise and plan for innovation marketing interventions accordingly.
• Ensure the categorisation project for the pillar is designed & updated regularly and marketing plans are designed accordingly for each level.
• Liaison with the creative agency for all internal and external creative

 

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.