Title: Marketing Manager/ Sr. Marketing Manager
Position: Marketing Manager/ Sr. Marketing Manager
Job Location: Kathmandu , Nepal (Relocation support to be provided)
Experience: 12- 14 yrs.
Education: B. Pharm, MBA (Marketing)
Responsibility:
- Head of Marketing - Responsible for the marketing strategies across therapies across brands
- Build & Maintain Big brands
- Monitor & Control marketing expenses
- Developing & managing the local team ( 5local brand managers )
- Achieve 100% success rate on implementation of planned strategies
- KOL development
Promotional Strategy & Inputs
- Understanding and contribution to India-based annual therapy / brand plan for assigned markets
- Preparation of Promotional Input Utilization Plan, Visit-wise plan along with detailing stories (on a quarterly basis).
- Report on implementation status (plan vs actual) on a monthly basis
- Maintaining of inputs ledger date-wise & inventory management (receipt, distribution, balance status)
- Ensure dispatch of inputs as the plan & timely execution of strategies by field force
- Follow – up on activities, gifts & other key high investment planned for the Qtr
- Coordinate with printers for quotations to print below inputs locally as and when required (As per SOP)
- Literatures
- Reference folders
- Visual Aids
- New Product launch inputs
- Gifts - coordinate with suppliers for procurement at country level if required (minimum 3 quotations need to be sent to HO country coordinator for approval)
- Organise local DGMs, CME, RTDs, etc as per annual calendar
- Stall fabricators - coordinate with local stall fabricators for conferences
- Advertisement material for various journals
Analysis
- Market data – IMS, Close up, Tertiary
- Sales analysis – Territory, Brand, Competitors & feedback to be presented to team & HO on a monthly basis
- Competitor activity – feedback to be sent to H.O. once in 2 months
- Expenditure monitoring and control with respect to budgets planned for the year for promotional activities on a quarterly basis
- Identification of future products of interest in segments of interest every 6 months
- Market research for ensuring successful new product launches
- Benchmarking our Company vs key competitors
Conducting Cycle meetings (3 times in the year)
Preparation for cycle meetings:
- Agenda
- Strategy Slides
- Strategy guide with detailing story to be sent every month OR 2 months or as the case maybe
- Detailing contest
- Quiz
- Input feedback / rating by PSRs
- Minutes of the meeting sent to H.O within 7 working days of the completion of the meeting
Conferences
Yearly Conference calendar segment – wise : National / Regional / International
- Participation & activity plan
- Coordination with H.O for inputs
- Follow up plan post conference participation
- Report on participation post conference within 7 days
Field work : Minimum 5 days in a month
a) With opinion leaders
- understanding market needs, gaps
- follow up on special strategies
- new product feedback
- develop speakers for our DGMs
b) With our field force
- Impact of marketing strategy
- Strategy implementation & gaps
- Contribution from SAS doctors
- Understand competitor
c) Territory objective
- Identify key territories for special FW
Fieldwork objective to be sent to India-based country coordinator 1 week before FW
Fieldwork report to be sent to HO within 5 days of FW
Customer Connect :
- Develop 10 KOLs per key segment
- List of planned KOLs to be sent to HO country coordinator
- Develop relationships with key societies/associations
Training of field force
- Arrange for training of new PSRs on Products
- Refresher programs
Summary of Reports
- Report on implementation status (plan vs actual) on a monthly basis
- Maintaining of inputs ledger date-wise & inventory management (receipt, distribution, balance status). Stock status to be sent bimonthly
- Sales analysis – Territory, Brand, Competitors & feedback to be presented to team & HO on a monthly basis
- Minutes of the meeting sent to H.O within 7 working days of the completion of the meeting
- Report on participation post conference within 5 days
- Fieldwork report to be sent to HO within 5 days of FW