Position Title:  Manager Trade Marketing

PMI wants to work with the best talent available. Our diverse workforce of around 73,500 people speaks more than 80 languages. Our priority is to attract, support, and retain individuals from across the planet – no matter their age, gender, religion, or disability. Our people are our greatest strength, and we're proud of our culture of openness and respect. We believe that this is a big part of what makes PMI such a great place to work.

Do you have strong social skills and are you customer oriented and do you want to work for a Top Employer with international career opportunities?

If so, then please keep on reading

We are looking ‘Trade Marketing Manager’ is responsible for ensuring Executional Excellence across all GTR locations by playing a pivotal role in creating and standardizing executional excellence guidelines, at the same time ensuring end-to-end creation, production and deployment of all CC & SFP initiatives, working closely with field teams to ensure quality execution

Read further if you want to learn main responsibilities of the role:

Execution Excellence

• Providing field inputs to CPM to be able to thoroughly analyze Tier 1 locations/channels in their markets
• Standardization of the Executional Excellence Concept amongst different locations/channels together with CPM and Marketing team
• Ensure translation of Execution Excellence into actionable tasks: location strategy/role, POS strategy/role, portfolio optimization, VM/Planogram development by location, communication guidelines etc.
• Deployment of all Execution Excellence pillars
• Develop tracking/reporting/control system to ensure continuous execution excellence presence. Monitor and analyze store excellence performance and propose further execution excellence steps.

Commercial Deployment

• Responsible for all Brand Retail / Infrastructure project deployment from the official brief submission, including full project management and coordination with all internal and external stakeholders
• Responsible for all content deployment as per market/location calendar aligned with CPM, coordinating between internal (marketing team, GBS, B2B) and external (agencies, suppliers) stakeholders.
• Support CX Team in deploying CX activities (GWPs, local activation calendar, etc.). Coordination with suppliers, procurement, marketing to ensure efficient deployment on time

Manage all local suppliers in coordination with brand retail and procurement teams

• Engaging and managing third party suppliers, including: coordinating briefs, design and provide feedback where needed. Involvement with the project campaigns from ideation through to production, continuously reviewing and evaluating return on investment for future solutions/campaign materials. Regularly monitoring in-market execution and initiate corrective actions based on feedback received

This position can be something for you if you recognize yourself in the below profile.

You:

• 5+ years in trade marketing and/or commercial deployment in FMCG company, with strong working knowledge of sales trade channels
• Collaborating with people across all levels of an organization
• End to end project management and coordination of complex projects within cross-functional teams
• Internal and external stakeholder management
• Acting as a main point of contact for 3rd parties including and driving contract negotiations
• Engaging and influencing key stakeholders
• Deployment of digital marketing tools
• Managing budgets and inventory management
• People Management Experience is a plus

Skills / Function Specifics:

• Strong ability to connect consumer/trade needs into business objectives
• Continuously finding ways to transform learning into business opportunities
• Ability and business understanding to challenge status quo and overcome boundaries when needed
• Consumer Centric mindset
• Proven prioritization and time management skills
• Microsoft Office savvy, especially Excel and Power Point

One more thing: at Philip Morris we see equal pay for equal work between woman and men as the baseline standard for equality. Our good intentions do match our practices as we achieved the Global Equal Salary Certification. Moreover, we invest in creating a diverse workforce & a culture based on personal and career development, both on local as well as international level.

How does this sound?

If you are interested, go ahead and apply!