Assistant Product Manager - (R)

About the role

What you'll do

• Strategic Planning and Budgeting: Develop market intelligence by studying trends, analyzing agency reports, and collating feedback from sales teams.
• Market Insight: Meet with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) and attend industry seminars to stay updated on market changes and competitor strategies.
• Brand Planning: Prepare annual brand plans, including STP (Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning) strategies aligned with market realities.
• Execution: Ideate and design marketing deliverables such as brand communications, advertisements, promotions, and brand reminders.
• Sales Enablement: Design incentive plans, deliver training modules at cycle meetings, and conduct strategic briefing sessions for the sales force.
• Monitoring and Reporting: Continuously monitor on-ground execution and present monthly updates to marketing heads regarding budget variations and brand activity.
• Relationship Management: Handle customer queries/complaints and manage the delivery of educational programs for chemists, pharmacists, and paramedics.
• Vendor Management: Identify new vendors, support registration, follow up on material delivery, and approve payment disbursals.
• STAKEHOLDER INTERACTION
• Type of Interaction: Internal
• Interaction with: Sales teams, Regional/District Heads, Marketing Heads, Training team, and Corporate Quality Assurance (CQA).
• Nature of Interaction: Collating feedback, presenting execution updates, coordinating campaign execution, delivering training, and resolving customer complaints.

What you'll bring

• Professional Experience and Relevant Skills
• Experience: 3+ years of experience as a Product Manager within a Product Management Team.
• Experience Context: Exclusively Pharmaceutical industry experience.
• Skills: Market research, competitor analysis, pricing recommendations, and process efficiency improvement.
• Academic
• Educational Qualification: Minimum Science Graduate.
• Mandatory Qualification: Management Graduate (MBA)