PR/109282 | Assistant Marketing Manager (Electric Component for Automotive clients)

Company Overview: Japanese MNC having their trading base in India for electric components in India.

Job Location: Pune

Job Overview: Managing and directing marketing of activities assigned for India region. Needs to ensure the attainment of the budget and timeliness of objectives, as well as of all reporting distributors.

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible and handle the operations in India region.

• Implement plans to ensure marketing activities are carried out efficiently.

• Monitor the marketing activities by HRS and distributors are carried out effectively and reported regularly.

• Ensure the marketing target and objectives of product promotions are met.

• Responsible for the marketing target and objectives to the distributors.

• Prepare and conduct regular product training to distributors.

• Coordinate and provide directions for meetings and private shows at the customer’s location.

• Provide regular updates on industrial/market/customer situation.

• Provide regular updates on competitors’ situation.

• Assess strength, quality, and effectiveness of our distributors, and recommend changes, enhancements and alternatives required.

• Visit customers and distributors on a regular weekly basis.

Important Skills:

• Lead and participate in decision making.

• Be proactive.

• Review current staffing and organizational structures and recommend new more effective structures to achieve growth objectives in field sales and distribution organizations.

• Assume leadership role and/or provide support for special projects, as required.

• Maintain a strong and on-going communication with management of parent company and effective marketing operations in India region.

• Provide directions to all direct reports to be proactive and not reactive.

• Develop a solid interaction throughout the organization at all levels.

• Handle all facets of the business (customer issues or problems at all levels) both standard and non-standard situations.