Growth & Innovation Manager Heineken

4 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Heineken International B.V. Full time

We Go Places How about you?
Immediate Superior: Dino D Araujo
Job Grade: 20
Location: Johannesburg
Function: Commerce
Sub Function: Commerce - Marketing - Brand Management
Type of Contract: Permanent
Reference Number: 127227
Closing Date: 27/12/2024

Purpose of the job

Key Responsibilities

Identification of growth opportunities:

- Define and prioritize growth opportunities for brand / category based on deep-dive into demand space, occasions, PPA, region, consumer target, market trends and competitors weaknesses.
- Consumer Behaviour Forecasting: Analyse changes in consumer behavior and preferences, adjusting strategies to maintain relevance. Ensuring all strategies are rooted in category, consumer and shopper insight and complemented by a solid understanding of demand spaces, consumer needs, emerging underserved consumer groups like GenZ and females, and category white spaces with CMI.
- Identify growth opportunities and develop clear trade marketing and sales guidelines for ‘maintain’ brands within the category.

Innovation Pipeline Development:

- Innovation Culture: Foster a culture of innovation within the marketing team, encouraging creative thinking and experimentation with new marketing and innovation ideas.
- Innovation Opportunities: Identify and pursue opportunities for new products, packs, formats, beyond the bottle and consumer experience innovations ideas. Developing 5 Year Innovation Pipelines that will be margin enhancing by working closely with cross functional teams and the regional Innovation Hub.
- Product Development: Lead the ideation and manage the innovation development process and guardrails, concepts, design, implementation, PIPO management, and execution of the identified projects through Stage Gate process, supported by the SC Project Management Teams.

Research and Commercialisation of Innovation:

- Consumer Research: Conduct robust testing in collaboration with the CMI team to validate new concepts with consumer, customer, and shopper insights. Including qualitative, quantitative, conjoint elasticity, and shopper studies to assess volumetric impact of initiatives on total business incremental growth.
- Commercialisation of Innovation Projects: Costing analysis of liquid and pack COGS, and production costs and overheads with Finance and RMG stakeholders to optimize margin accretion of all innovation projects.

TTL Campaigns, Trade Marketing, and Shopper Strategies:

- Campaign Ideation and Execution: Lead the ideation and execution of TTL creative marketing campaigns, using innovative approaches to enhance brand visibility, consumer experience, and engagement. Develop and execute all campaigns related to innovation and pack launches.
- Trade Marketing and Shopper Strategies: Co-creation of trade marketing strategies using shopper market research to understand consumer behavior and preferences across channels. Collaborate on playbook guardrails with trade marketing for segmentation strategies, premium visibility, promotions, and activations.

RMG Commercial Capability: Pricing, Mix, and PPA
- Commercial Capability: Develop price positioning guidelines for sustainable revenue growth and profitability across the portfolio in partnership with RMG. Monitor market trends, competitor pricing, and consumer and customer behaviour to adjust pricing strategy accordingly. Lead the use of advanced RMG tools (e.g. conjoint) to evaluate price elasticity, competitor relativity, and volumetric impact.
- Mix and Margin Management: Analyse product mix and margin performance to identify areas for improvement ensuring a full value chain and total P&L assessment of pack, product, and category mix.
- Pack and Price Marketing: Assess competitor landscape pack value curves and pricing gaps for new profit pools to optimize and develop new pack and format launches at magic price points.

Promotional Effectiveness and Performance Analysis:

- Promotional Effectiveness: Evaluate promotional activities and campaign effectiveness in driving volume, revenue, and profitability return on investment. Develop data driven insights to measure the success of growth and innovation projects and make recommendations for optimization.
- Performance Analysis and Metrics: Conduct regular performance analysis to measure the effectiveness of revenue management, brand, and trade marketing initiatives. Establish and monitor key KPIs vs business plan including volume, revenue, GP, listings, ranging, weighted and numeric distribution, promotion, rate of sale, open orders, stock on hand, expiry and write off risks.

Operational Management:

- Resource Management: Oversee budgets for growth and innovation projects, ensuring efficient allocation of resources in line with ROFO principles.
- Team Management: Manage team resource allocations and performance across projects and initiatives.
- Cross Functional Collaboration: Engage with internal and external stakeholders to gather insights and foster partnerships that support growth

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