[pipeline] Quaker Sr. Commercial Manager

Overview:
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- The Commercial Manager (Business Development Manager) role is responsible to manage the Quaker commercial & business development agenda end to end delivering AOP volume, Revenue, NOPBT, and market share targets across the 2 CU’s
- He/She leads and streamlines the relationship and workstreams among Quaker cross functional team & stakeholders to deliver the business objectives
- He/She builds system capability across the value chain

**Responsibilities**:

- **AOP delivery and development**: Developing the Quaker ME BU AOP & delivering Quaker ME Vol/NR/Nobpt/Share targets
- ** Commercialization agenda**: Delivering the End-to-End commercialization agenda aligned with the 3 ME CU’s, extending support and building capability
- **Activation**: Translating the Marketing calendar and brand plans into local, market/channel specific plans and in-store solutions in alignment with CU’s
- ** Forecast consolidation & Sharing**: Consolidating the 3 ME CU’s rolling forecast, sharing and aligning with ME BU SC team
- ** Innovations agenda**: Working closely with Marketing & Commercialization team, aligning the Innovations agenda with the CU’s and developing market launch plans
- **D&A/ Trade support & Consumer promotions**: Allocating annual D&A budgets by CU/Category and supporting in top 3 market planning
- ** NRM agenda**: Leading and aligning the NRM agenda with the ME CU’s and ensuring flawless implementation
- ** Best practice incubation**: Sharing global best practice initiatives and launch-test-scale in alignment with CU’s
- ** Capability building**: Developing team and distributor capability agenda

Qualifications:
**Education and work experience**:

- University graduate
- At least 10 years sales/commercial/business development experience in a FMGC-environment
- Marketing experience is a plus

**Knowledge and skills (functional)**:

- Demonstrates advanced knowledge of our core business processes
- Possess strong strategic capabilities with proven hands on commercial & operational experience.
- Demonstrates advanced knowledge in consumer goods space & food business across the value chain
- Strong experience in P&L management & ownership
- Strong sales & commercial background & capability of building and executing business plans
- Develops new approaches to drive product and brand innovation
- Develops strategic & tactical promotions & trade offers, and able to shares promotion best practices
- Uses expertise to provide insights and sets direction for managing business agenda
- Develops pack/price strategies leveraging understanding of consumer/customer and competition

**Personal**:

- Has an analytical approach, strategic in thinking, a real problem solver, methodical and systematic in approach, organized and down to earth. Has vision and a well-developed helicopter view, able to put things in perspective.
- Strong negotiation, persuasion skills & ability to influence others
- Excellent communicator, persuasive, able to operate at different levels inside and outside an international organization.
- Solid knowledge of FMCG consumers and FMCG business partners
- Solid experience in sales across both retail & away from home
- Result driven, enthusiastic team player, ambitious and strong analytical skills
- Flexible towards travelling to Iraq on a regular basis, as well as other international travels