Associate Product Manager - Premix - Chennai

As a Product Manager at this company, you will be responsible for the growth of market share, life cycle management, and gross margin of the product portfolio you manage. You will design communication and promotional strategies for your products and execute them with both internal and external customers. Key Responsibilities: - Contribute to key sales projects and assist the sales team in progressing through different customer transformation training stages. - Manage the raw material to finished product value proposition for the company's products, collaborating with Purchasing and Operations to maintain competitive raw material costs, working with Manufacturing and Finance to reduce product standard costs, and partnering with Technical Services and Research & Development to test and provide product efficacy data. - Engage in training, coaching, and key projects within your portfolio, set product strategy and pricing, train the Sales staff, develop and communicate target markets, customer positioning, and product promotional plans, create annual market plans, and achieve overall sales and gross margin growth targets for the product category. - Provide marketing expertise and support to field sales staff, offer talking points, success stories, FAQs for your product portfolio, develop and execute counteract strategies for competition, equip the sales team with comprehensive information about your product portfolio compared to the competition, ensure the delivery of quality and consistent products to the market, and work with purchase, manufacturing, and finance to evaluate ways to reduce standard costs. - Set product strategy, collaborate with sales in setting market prices and volume discount schedules, conduct market analyses, monitor market share, and match features and benefits to ensure a competitive sales approach. - Translate research data into product performance updates and technical bulletins, assist in writing technical bulletins, develop and present PowerPoint presentations, train sales staff on products, make presentations to customers as requested by the sales staff, develop product line strategies, publish and communicate the annual market plan for assigned products, maximize market share and gross margin growth for product line(s) annually, participate in the Product Innovation Process through new product concept submissions, champion products through the process to launch, and effectively manage projects as a Project Manager. Qualifications: - M.V.Sc. in Animal Nutrition. - 2-4 years of experience in Marketing. As a Product Manager at this company, you will be responsible for the growth of market share, life cycle management, and gross margin of the product portfolio you manage. You will design communication and promotional strategies for your products and execute them with both internal and external customers. Key Responsibilities: - Contribute to key sales projects and assist the sales team in progressing through different customer transformation training stages. - Manage the raw material to finished product value proposition for the company's products, collaborating with Purchasing and Operations to maintain competitive raw material costs, working with Manufacturing and Finance to reduce product standard costs, and partnering with Technical Services and Research & Development to test and provide product efficacy data. - Engage in training, coaching, and key projects within your portfolio, set product strategy and pricing, train the Sales staff, develop and communicate target markets, customer positioning, and product promotional plans, create annual market plans, and achieve overall sales and gross margin growth targets for the product category. - Provide marketing expertise and support to field sales staff, offer talking points, success stories, FAQs for your product portfolio, develop and execute counteract strategies for competition, equip the sales team with comprehensive information about your product portfolio compared to the competition, ensure the delivery of quality and consistent products to the market, and work with purchase, manufacturing, and finance to evaluate ways to reduce standard costs. - Set product strategy, collaborate with sales in setting market prices and volume discount schedules, conduct market analyses, monitor market share, and match features and benefits to ensure a competitive sales approach. - Translate research data into product performance updates and technical bulletins, assist in writing technical bulletins, develop and present PowerPoint presentations, train sales staff on products, make presentations to customers as requested by the sales staff, develop product line strategies, publish and communicate the annual market plan for assigned products, maximize market share and gross margin growth for product line(s) annually, participate in the Product Innovation Process through new product concept submissions, champion products through the p