Junior Manager, Color & Care

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Role Type

Permanent

What you'll be doing:

As a Junior Manager, he/she may handle segments, brands, and/or categories, manage the rolling three-year innovation strategies, handle end-to-end product development, facilitate product training and knowledge, develop activation and training assets, craft new stories/ energy to reignite assigned scope, and possibly spearhead creative developments. He must exhibit thorough understanding of the category, the business, the consumer, and the competitive environment. He must have the ability to handle multiple projects coordinated among different matrix functions, in a high-pressure environment. Key skills would be strategic-thinking, project management, and business analysis.

Key responsibilities:

Shaping growth strategy for the category/brand

Supports development and management of rolling three-year innovation and portfolio strategy and cadence for handled brands/ segments/ categories to achieve the target sales, profit, market share, and/or consumer KPI results

Manages portfolio of brand/ category handled with guardrails in concept count, SOL, productivity, pricing, GM, etc.

Facilitates integration and alignment between market and global strategies, ensuring local market relevance of global strategies

Conducts regular competitive review, exhibits extensive knowledge of external competitive environment; translates knowledge to actionable initiatives to gain market share

Provides omnichannel portfolio recommendations and product support

Delivering new products and developing brand building events for the category/brand

Spearheads end-to-end product development from conceptualization to launch in partnership with cross functional teams -- R&D, Packaging Engineering, Regional Finance, Regulatory, Commercial Marketing and Supply Chain and ensures timely delivery/ launch

Delivers relevant innovation ideas and concepts (confirmed via IMI) to be filtered and vetted in Portfolio Planning and Gate

Lands global innovation strategies to PH, ensuring market and consumer relevance, and supports adjustments and deviations as necessary

Considers how to build inline products via new storytelling, creative revamps, EOVs, training etc.

Evaluates campaign and/or new product launches post-mortem, with recommendations on way forward and learning

Delivers to NPD numerical KPIs such as achieving thresholds, GM growth, pricing recommendation, sales and units growth, increase in market share, etc.

Leads creative development and training support for Innovation

Crafts creative brief for innovation concepts or existing product developments; Co-creates creative direction for regional product launches

Develops launch support materials (brochure spreads, education videos, training materials etc.) with internal and external agencies

Facilitates training for innovation projects, developing for local jewels and localizing for global pick-ups

Leads the Matrix and Support Teams to support category KPIS: RGM ( Pricing and SOL), Supply Chain (Supportability), Sales Support ( Training) and New Product Development Team

Supply Chain: (1.) aligns with supply chain team on plans to protect supportability, issues substitutes to recover supportability gaps (2.) Aligns demand estimates with demand team for new products

Sales Support (1.) Prepares FAB slide and training assets for all new products, for endorsement to training team (2). For local jewels, creates and aligns on full training plan and assets (3) For global pick-ups, cascades global training and activation support and creates locally-relevant support

RGM (1.) Aligns and provides insights on pricing opportunities for NPD to drive profit (2.) Tracks and monitors innovation concept count (SOL/ASOL) (3) builds to total cat GM target

CM Aligns (1) On brand and innovation strategies and resulting calendar (2) On flow plans, offers, pricing (3) On positioning, portfolio, activation plans and training support

Omni -- supports omnichannel expansion as needed

What we offer:

We offer a comprehensive benefits package along with wellness resources and work-life balance support in line with your country practices and Avon purpose aiming to help you live a healthier life, protect you and your dear ones, and ensure you're at your best.

At Avon, we believe beauty is for everyone and that it's beautiful to be you. We celebrate our differences, champion self-expression and are committed to inclusion for all. We embrace diversity and individuality to build a culture that represents our communities and enables everyone to bring their best self to work. We also support reasonable adjustments both within our recruitment process and job design when required to empower you to work in a way that works for you.

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