Trade Marketing Manager

Job description / Role

An exciting new role of Trade Marketing Manager has been created to join a growing FMCG business.

As Trade Marketing Manager, you will report directly into the VP of Marketing and cover the UAE market with the following responsibilities:

Responsibilities:
• Follow up on monthly targets and goals set for every distributor
• Secure the pipeline 3 months in advance and give visibility to Finances and Factory to ensure timely purchase of raw materials and line time allocation
• Accurate reporting (sales targets, outputs, activities implementation, budget management)
• Reporting monthly performance of each country and distributor and coming up with development ideas
• Setting value chains, price positioning and launch plans
• Researching and identifying customers and market gaps to identify new opportunities for growth
• Work with the distributor team to forecast monthly shipments
• Work on trade marketing plans and marketing budgets for assigned regions
• Work with sales team for product distribution, displays and dominance in the assigned market
• Work with the distributor sales teams to ensure proper brand positioning and establishing the brand guidelines
• Following competitor activities, sales progress, supply chain & product quality issues to the company to identify opportunities for growth
• Ensuring product availability at all times, maintaining adequate stock levels, following ordering schedules
• Tracking, analysing and reporting findings from competitor and market analysis, its impact on the Business Unit
• Developing and maintaining a winning relationship with key customers
• Ensure payments are on schedule and have no overdue payments from distributors
• Liaise and manage indirectly the distributors sales team
• Ensure the distributor sales team is proficient in brand understanding and standards required

Salary:
AED 23,000 to 25,000 per month inclusive of fixed allowances.

Requirements

Ideal candidate:
• 5 years experience in trade marketing
• An energetic and passionate character with a drive to succeed
• A business or marketing degree

Thank you for your interest. All applications are viewed and evaluated according to the role requirements. We aim to contact shortlisted candidates within 2 weeks. As we often receive a high volume of applications, we are unable to reply to everyone. If you have not heard back from us within 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.

About the Company

Inspire Selection is an award winning recruitment agency, headquartered in Dubai which recruits across the Middle East region. We employ highly knowledgeable, professional consultants who are experts in connecting the right people with the right opportunities. Our reputation has been built upon our honesty, integrity and our ability to source candidates of the highest calibre right across our specialist sectors. As a result, we are recruitment partners to a wide spectrum of organisations - from leading blue chip companies to smaller, local businesses. Sectors we cover include HR, Administration, Finance & Accounting, Legal, Sales & Marketing including Digital Marketing, IT, Oil/Gas/Energy, Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, Higher Education.