Junior Trade Marketing Category Manager

This is a junior-level role (23 years of experience) in Trade Marketing & Category Management. Youll support category marketing, assist in strategy execution, update reports, perform retail checks, and help drive sales through planograms and promotions. Key Accountabilities: Write down the monthly plan canvas clearly for customer business development to ensure flawless execution in the trade. Allocate budgets and special pack promotions to all branches and trade channels and communicate them to customer business development accordingly. Communicate sales direction from head office to field unit managers about start / stop selling of certain items to ensure customer business development will only order available items and accordingly ensure better customer service. Upload all offers on the IT system to make them available for customer business development. Manage reserve budgets for promotions and offers based on CBD needs and with approval from the customer business development services manager. Issue the monthly Initiative Checklist and send it to all principals to follow up on all offer/plan required documents for implementation. Place appropriate orders to ensure product availability meets demand. Create forecasts for product demand to ensure the sustainability of inventory.