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Your Role:
As an Associate Sales Manager, you directly receive meaningful responsibilities as of day one. You are in charge for maintaining and expanding a long-term partnership with your customer by continuously proposing solutions and plans that meet their objectives. To do so, you’ll develop a keen understanding of your product categories and markets.

Whilst building the plans, you will not only develop your negotiating and sales skills, but also your financial & marketing skills, analytical insights and logistical understanding as you are responsible for your client from A-Z.
You'll be part of a customer team in which trust, team spirit, real passion for winning and leadership are very important.


Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining a productive long term relationship with your customer
• Acquire a deep understanding of your customer needs and requirements
• Acquire an in-depth understanding of your shoppers, categories and market
• Adapting and optimizing country commercial guidelines to your specific client
• Negotiating contracts, promo plans and innovations
• Preparing volume forecast and plans
• Collaborating very closely with teams from other departments;
• Resolve any issues and problems of your clients and act as a link between your customer and the internal teams.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, please note that all recruitment stages (assessments and interviews) will be done virtually.


What we offer:

• At Procter and Gamble, we don’t just offer a job, we offer a career with varying assignments and lots of development opportunities, so that we develop our leaders of tomorrow.
• Training: you are integrated in the team with a full training program. You will learn communication and selling skills, the management of a customer portfolio, the analysis and priority settings, trained to specifics corporate trainings.

Desired Skills and Experience

We are looking for:

• Fresh graduates with a Bachelor’s/Master's Degree and 0-1 years of work experience
• Born leaders and are passionate to make things happen, collaborating well with diverse groups of people
• Have an external focus and a real passion for Sales / Marketing
• Like to bring creativity & innovation to your work
• Strong analytical thinking and skills
• South African Citizenship
• Valid driver’s license

Just so you know:

• You will get a competitive compensation package, in line with your qualifications and experience.
• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. Our people are all equally talented in unique ways: we come from diverse traditions, personal experiences and points of view. And we want to include yours. Are you ready to inspire us with your unique ideas?

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Job Summary:

P&G is looking for a Business Operations Planning Manager and it could be the opportunity to join your dream team!
We welcome you to apply for this position, Procter & Gamble Supply Chain department offers you a great opportunity to experience a breadth of assignments as well as the flexibility to meet your individual career objectives as we work together to build our businesses. Our role within us is to provide leadership to the business by decision-making as well as lead the Company's projects to maximize long-term profits, cash flow, and total shareholder return.

Description of the role:

• The Business Operations Planner’s core function is to ensure that they deliver an unbiased forecast via the development of key building blocks together with their Multi Functional teams.
• It is their responsibility to analyze where targets are off track and develop an action plan to get it back on track.
• The Planner plays a key role in ensuring service to our customers via the category/brand/sku forecast accuracy and is also responsible for the development of plans for Non Performing Inventory.
• The planner will work closely with their Multi Functional team but also with their demand counterparts in the Planning Service Centre.

Desired Skills and Experience​​​​​​​
Requirements (skills / experiences) for the role:

• Minimum of 3 years experience as a Demand Planner.
• Bachelors or Masters degree required.Supply Chain qualifications will be an advantage.
• Excellent collaboration skills and working comfortably across teams
• Fluency in English