Product manager

An international company (luxe cosmetics) is looking for Product manager, Almaty.

Objectives:

Forecasting/Analytics/Controlling/Marketing:

-Clients stock recommendation development & control;

-Planning and forecasting analysis;

-Analysis of sales by different projections analysis and control of stock;

-Modeling of sales in/sales out, sales forecasting and further comparison and analysis of actual sales and forecasts;

-Forecasting promo & merch materials, product also but with BM controlling;

-Product orders from retailers handling, necessary stock of all assortment maintenance, uploading orders to AX and controlling process of proceeding (contact with brand, batch code control, summary for the retailers after invoicing). Reorders monitoring and placing;

- Sell-in planning and controlling for all clients;

-Logistics control and solving the issues with supplier;

-Participation in preparing the sceneries of budget by lines, controlling of execution of approved budget;

-Price lists preparation, and price communication to clients, controlling of receiving the novelties by clients;

-Requirement’s preparation of recommended orders and stocks for clients;

-Monitoring and creation new refs in the system;

-Market research: market analysis, market share, ratings, trends, focus groups, if needed Information gathering and analysis, tactical marketing logistics and deployment;

-Conducting pre and post analyses of promotions, developing a library of performance history;

-Applying shopper and trade insights and performance assessment to develop recommendations for promotion;

-General shopping behavior, category specific behavior analysis;

-Developing, reviewing and modifying promo plan at client to ensure we are driving consumption off the shelf cost effectively and brand objectives are achieved for this client;

-Competitor’s activity survey and analysis;

-Preparing and uploading the reports;

- Execute on behalf of the Employer's other activities directly related to the work carried out by the function.

Requirements:

1. Advanced Excel

2. Sales forecasting (Building forecasts based on historical data, seasonality, and trends)

3. PowerPoint / Google Slides (Preparing analytical presentations, structuring insights, and visualizing conclusions)

4. Analytics, data analysis (Sell-in / Sell-out / Stock analysis)

5. Anaplan (Experience with scenario modeling, sales planning, and budgeting preferred

6. English-Fluent