Responsibilities:

• Provide Sales, Marketing and Ethical teams with leadership and direction to achieve the overall sales, profit and market share position of the nutrition business.
• Design and develop marketing objectives, strategies, annual brand/trade marketing, ethical and sales plans in coordination with local brand/trade/ethical managers to ensure timely execution.
• Closely monitor budgets and expenditures to ensure that resources are spent in line with the business plan commitment.
• Engage and maintain rapport with key opinion leaders in the assigned markets to strengthen brand awareness and endorsement in the ethical channel.
• Monitor competitive market situation and take actions to grow the market share.
• Creates a sustainable infrastructure and environment that enables growth.
• Maintains leadership presence and emotional control in difficult situations.
• Provides the insight, knowledge and leadership to improve functional area and build the business.
• Develops, rewards, and shares talent; is the type of leader others want to work with or for.
• Provides accurate, frequent, and constructive feedback to subordinates, peers, and leaders.
• Makes the difficult people, financial, and business decisions in a timely manner.
• Creates and communicates a motivating, compelling vision of the future that supports employee engagement.
• Develops short- and long-term strategies and helps align the resources to achieve them.
• Translates strategies into actionable goals and plans, and then communicates them to ensure alignment of effort and purpose.
• Develops scenario and contingency plans that ensure achievement of results under changing conditions and situations.
• Takes initiative to implement change before others.
• Actively gathers customer inputs in order to anticipate and fulfill their needs and requirements.
• Manages internal/external stakeholders to identify and address issues.
• Provide product training and updated competitor information intelligence to local teams on an on-going basis.
• Identify new product and channel development opportunities in assigned markets.
• Managing brand team of three countries with diverse talent capabilities, culture and with different distributor working style/requirements and retail landscape.

Qualifications:

• Degree in Marketing, Business or Science Discipline or equivalent.
• Strong marketing and sales track record of 5 - 8 years in fast moving consumer goods industry. Experience in nutrition industry is added advantage.
• Good understanding of marketing related principles and comprehensive industry knowledge.
• Willing and able to travel to assigned markets on a regular basis.