Assistant CMI Manager, Oral Care India

Job Title: Assistant CMI Manager, Oral Care India

Work Location: Mumbai HO

This role entails Strategic Partnership with the Oral Care India Team, the role is based in Mumbai. You will play a key role in shaping the Portfolio trajectory, showing the Business key growth opportunities, partnering a leadership Team comprising of Brand Directors and Category and the CMI community.

Oral Care India is a growing opportunity with great profitability. The role requires considerable influence in performance management, innovation and communication.

We also need the role to help the category stay future ready - in terms of culture trends, category trends and product innovation partnership.
In order to grow big we need to think big. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to drive an aggressive growth agenda, make a big impact and leave a positive legacy.

To support the aggressive growth agenda, you will have proven leadership skills, strong strategic rigour, be comfortable pushing back and managing senior stakeholders, proven experience in collaboration and knowing when (and who) to pull in different expertise, strong background in analysing the market, be able to decipher multiple information sources into a succinct story and point of view, experience in innovation development and have a diverse research background. We are looking for people who are future fit and have a strong balance of intellectual and emotional quotients.

Reporting would be to the PC CMI Director, the candidate needs to be proactive, empowered, able to work autonomously, know how to prioritise, have strong communication and storytelling skills.

Key Responsibilities
The core purpose of this role is to show the business where and how to win by championing and being the voice of the consumer. You need to be able to anticipate business partner needs before they know they need them.
• Strategic planning both at a category, brand
• Setting the long & short term growth agenda, identifying growth spots, future proofing the portfolio
• Future facing Innovation & Brand Strategy
• An intimate understanding of business performance, priorities and cross functional needs
• Proactive knowledge of hot spots and opportunities
• Offer foresight rather than just insight
• Gate keeping
• Briefing, managing, and landing all strategic understanding projects
• Project planning, brief creation/ brief ownership/ landing debrief/ research findings – local & regional projects
• Collaboration within CMI community
• Harnessing and being on top of category and brand related trends
• Staying abreast with consumer trends
• Leveraging all the tools and insights at our fingertips/ bringing everything together to land clear and concise story that ultimately drives business action
• Driving global synergies – fewer, bigger better
• Managing CMI budgets
• Managing relationships across other CMI teams, agency partners, CTI, cross functional teams