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About the Role:

• The Trade Marketing Specialist will focus on the implementation of marketing strategies that drive demand for Ferrero products in retail & wholesale channels. This role provides key insights that shape promotional activities & category management strategies while ensuring that all promotions, and in-store activities are executed efficiently and in alignment with the company’s trade marketing strategy to drive sales and enhance brand visibility.

Main Responsibilities:
Promotion & Campaign Management:

• Plan and coordinate the execution of trade promotions, including in-store displays, point-of-sale (POPM) materials, and retail events.
• Ensure the timely deployment of marketing materials to regional agents, working closely with external vendors to meet deadlines.
• Monitor in-store execution of trade marketing activities to ensure consistent brand presence and effective promotion. 
• Collaborate with supply chain teams to ensure product availability for promotional activities in all channels.

Customer Plan Management & Optimisation

• Analyse customer data, shopper insights, and sales trends to define pricing, placement, promotion, and product assortment initiatives 
• Conduct regular reviews of customers, to assess the impact of trade marketing activities, and identify growth opportunities 
• Monitor out-of-stock & product shelf-life situations and collaborate with sales, supply chain and to adjust promotional and trade marketing activities accordingly to minimize waste and maximize product turnover
• Track competitor activity and recommend competitive pricing and promotion strategies

Cross Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with sales team to ensure alignment between marketing initiatives & sales objectives, providing data driven insights to optimise customer plan, promo activities and product placement. Regularly update the team on market trends, promo performance and areas of opportunity to support sales targets
• Partner with finance to track trade promo budgets, monitoring spends against plans, and ensuring financial accountability for trade related activities
• Develop strong relationships with retail partners, ensuring effective communication and collaboration for category growth by providing insights and guidance to partners to optimize shelf space, promotional opportunities, and product positioning

Budget Management:

• Oversee the management of trade marketing budget for all campaigns and promotional activities, ensuring that expenditures are within the allocated budget
• Develop and maintain a detailed budget tracking system, ensuring transparency and accuracy in the allocation & usage of funds for TM activities
• Compile & present performance reports on trade marketing initiatives providing detailed insights into sales performance, retail execution metrics, customer engagement, competitive benchmarks & category performance- analyzing ROI and effectiveness.
• Collaborate with finance to ensure timely reconciliation of expenses and accurate financial reporting for all TM activities

Master Data Management

• Manage & update the product catalogue by regularly inputting and maintaining detailed information for all existing and new products (Pack-shots, TU dimensions, RSP, Shelf life, etc.)
• Maintain the POPM catalogue, ensuring accurate and up-to-date information on available POPM for campaigns
• Ensure that all new product listing information is communicated to retailers and field sales in a timely and accurate manner

Who we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in trade marketing, retail execution, or a similar role.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to translate data into actionable insights
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills for managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Experience working with retail partners and managing category performance across various channels
• Proficiency in category management tools, data analytics, and CRM software
• Proven ability to manage budgets and deliver against financial targets.

How to be successful in the role and at Ferrero:

• Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world. 

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Main Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the planning, organizing and directing of the 3rd party agency sales and merchandising staff within the prescribed area
• Implement the route to market strategy so as to ensure trade coverage and increased distribution for the area
• Achievement of sales budgets and growth objectives by monitoring and analysing of sales performance and implementing corrective action plans.
• Effective implementation and execution of Ferrero Visibility requirements as per Ithemba Visibility in-store standards.
• Ensure the execution and implementation of all commercial agreements
• Implement field sales strategies to ensure that all seasonal Visibility activations and brand initiatives are executed timeously and effectively.
• Work with FSM and the third party sales and merchandising service providers to ensure that operational plans (related to Number of frequency of visits, Distribution, Visibility, Freshness and RSP standards) and ad-hoc activities are implemented and executed within the defined area.
• Control and monitor expenses within predetermined budgets
• Control and monitor all sales operational budgets as prescribed by the business

About the Role:

• Vacancies exists at Ferrero Ithemba for Area Sales Managers to be based in Gauteng and KZN

Who we are looking for:

• 3 - 5 years’ experience in managing field sales staff (internal or 3rd party agency) within the FMCG industry in a similar role.
• Key account management exposure would be advantageous.
• Strong people management skills with the ability to motivate the team in order to create a high performing team.

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About the Role:

• Without you, we could not deliver high-quality products to our customers. You will operate and maintain equipment to build technical mastery and to deliver on safety, quality, cost, delivery, sustainability and morale targets, understanding losses in your area and taking the appropriate action to eliminate them. You will use autonomous and progressive maintenance standards to maintain equipment and support new product development. In this role, you will ensure that safety processes are observed, that quality assurance activities are performed and that resources are properly allocated and available during the shift. You will take the lead for shutdown maintenance, root-cause analysis, stops reductions loss analysis and breakdown elimination.

Main Responsibilities:

• Maintenance budget: cooperates with the UGP Manager and Maintenance Responsible to define the maintenance related budget for what is under his / her competence, manages the budget and performs variance analysis​
• Definition: cooperates to collect data and analysis needed to perform evaluation and changes to maintenance policies​
• Implementation: assures the correct implementation of the Maintenance policies​
• Manuals and working procedures cooperate for a critical review of machinery & equipment manuals​
• Medium term plan: Elaborates the maintenance plans on a monthly basis, verifying the availability of resources and machinery & equipment subjected to maintenance​
• Deadlines book: Updates deadlines book for maintenance services, according to changes in maintenance policies or need for maintenance services​
• Machineries’ downtime: Consolidates the maintenance services to be executed during the planned machineries’ downtime, adding maintenance services for machineries’ improvement (upon availability check)

Who we are looking for:

• Grade 12
• N6 Mechanical/ Electrical
• Relevant Trade (Millwright with extensive mechanical experience)
• SAP advantageous
• MS Office package (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Projects and Outlook
• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in manufacturing post apprenticeship experience in relevant trade in manufacturing environment as an artisan