Assistant Brand Manager (Japan Market)

Job description

Description

You will identify business opportunities and work with the multi-functional team to build cohesive commercial plans by studying qualitative and quantitative data. You are expected to lead and collaborate with different subject matter experts to deliver end-to-end plans for the business in Japan via qualifying communication ideas, adjusting portfolio pricing, identifying shopping barriers, and summarizing if opportunities are profit accretive.

Your team
You will report to the Brand Manager for the Category and work extensively with colleagues from Consumer Market Knowledge, Sales, Communications, Finance etc.

How success looks like:

After 1st month:
•Demonstrate initial understanding of the Brand, with basic hypothesis on Brand Concepts, consumer needs to be tested with consumers
•Demonstrate positive relationship building skills in initial engagements with multi-functional teams
•Understand current business scorecard, pricing and promotion strategy

After 1st quarter:
•Successfully qualified Brand Concept as part of Product innovations Design (conducted consumer needs analysis, identifying concepts, claims and benefits that work)
•Demonstrate good progress and management of creative agencies in developing toolkits and communication ideas
•Built working pricing and promotion strategy in collaboration with multi-functional partners

After 1st year:
•Deliver Scorecard Business Targets, in line with the goals of the Business Unit
•Deliver Category growth, market penetration and gaining of New Users via Products Innovation Design, particularly in Japan
•Success Design and Deployment of Marketing Toolkits for the Brand
Responsibilities of the role
•Identify Japanese consumers’ needs and wants for P&G’s products, and provide inputs to R&D and technical team to design the right package and formula to win with local consumers
•Lead consumer researches to develop qualified brand concept, benefit and claims that addresses Japanese consumers’ unmet needs
•Communicate with Japanese local partners, stakeholders and suppliers to drive P&G business initiatives
•Lead creative agencies to develop communication ideas and execute TV copy production designed/customized for the cultural nuances of Japanese consumers
•Develop initiatives fit-for-use toolkits (including copy, prints, digital i-banners, social & eCommerce contents, sampling trial toolkits, in-store activation and demos, etc.), and deploy/guide Japan delivery team for execution
•Coordinate with R&D, Consumer Research teams to qualify the product and package through various tests.
•Craft promotion/pricing strategy and customer/distributor trade terms with the local trade team
•Work with technical team to find the best solution of supply chain to manage the product cost within affordable level
•Participate in firm planning to set target, supply to building blocks and co-deliver sufficiency for the next fiscal year

Qualifications

Role Requirements
•A college degree (Bachelor’s or Master’s is fine, preferably with some business focus)
•Excellent forward-thinking, strategic and courageous leadership skills
•Strengths with strategic and analytical thinking
•An ability to drive innovation and brand growth
•Strong ability to communicate and team capabilities
•You are proficient in Japanese language and possess strong market knowledge of Japan as the role requires local consumer understanding to develop brand equity and marketing strategies for Japan Market

About us
We produce globally recognized brands and we grow the best business leaders in the industry. With a portfolio of trusted brands as diverse as ours, it is paramount our leaders are able to lead with courage the vast array of brands, categories and functions. We serve consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always®, Ariel®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Herbal Essences®, Oral-B®, Pampers®, Pantene®, Tampax® and more. Our community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide.

Visit http://www.pg.com to know more.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship, disability, HIV/AIDS status, or any other legally protected factor.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, citizenship or any other legally protected factor.

Job locations:
Singapore, , Singapore Job Type: Full-time Req No: BRM00001374