My client is a multinational global pharmaceutical company who seeks to employ a OTC Product Manager

Role

The job incumbent will be responsible for successfully growing the product portfolio through strategic marketing and achieve pre-determined sales and profit targets by:

• Growing and reinforcing customer loyalty
• Appropriate targeting and segmentation
• Develop and implement innovative brand and market strategies
• Flawless implementation of through-the-line promotional campaigns
• Co-ordination with advertising and media agencies
• Ensure short, medium and long term sales and profit projections for promoted brand(s) with appropriate resource allocation
• Demand forecasting
• Management of advertising budget
• Evaluation and monitoring of campaigns and brand market performance
• Working with internal and external customers i.e. Commercial Team, Pharmacies and Dispensing Doctors.
The ideal candidate must have the following:

Minimum Requirements

IMM diploma or related tertiary qualification
3 – 5 years marketing/product management experience in the Pharmaceutical industry
Experience in the marketing and promotion of OTC pharmaceutical products in a competitive pharmaceutical environment.

Essential Key Skills and competencies:

The ideal candidate must have:
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a fast-paced, high energy organization.
• Commercial savviness.
• Proven ability to work in cross functional teams.
• Track record of proven success in previous and current position.
• Excellent verbal and interpersonal skills with the presentation and negotiation skills to go with it.
• Excellent planning and organizing skills.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently.
• Results oriented and able to meet tight deadlines
• Tenacity in the face of challenging expectations.
• Proven leadership skills in a functional role.
• Advanced computer skills - MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint