Category Manager
Budapest, Hungary, 1133
Company information
Teva is a global pharmaceutical leader and the world's largest generic medicines producer, committed to improving health and increasing access to quality health solutions worldwide. Our employees are at the core of our success, with colleagues in over 80 countries delivering the world's largest medicine cabinet to 200 million people every day. We offer a uniquely diverse portfolio of products and solutions for patients and we've built a promising pipeline centered around our core therapeutic areas. We are continually developing patient-centric solutions and significantly growing both our generic and specialty medicines business through investment in research and development, marketing, business development and innovation. This is how we improve health and enable people to live better, healthier lives. Join us on our journey of growth!
Job Description
Teva OTC Business Unit is looking for a Category Manager to directly support the strategic development and tactical execution of Teva OTC BU's growth in Hungary. We're looking for a creative, smart, and agile marketer who can work within a team. You will work on a full range of marketing initiatives with the ultimate goal of ensuring sales value & profit growth.
Versatility is key, the ideal candidate has proven creative marketing skills, communication orientation, and analytical aptitude in tracking marketing performance.
Qualifications
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…
• Create and execute marketing strategy in various formats, with end goal of increasing marketing KPIs
• Create and execute the yearly brand activity plan in line with BU strategies in order to deliver brand targets in tight collaboration with trade and sales team
• Understanding & proactive generation of insights via closeness with consumers, experts and shoppers, pharmacists and patients to help activation and feedback the category team
• Coordinate and implement communication strategy, including planning campaigns on all channels (TV, on-line, other)
• Manage working with creative, media, PR and performance agencies under the close supervision of the BU Marketing Director
• Closely monitors market, own and competition’s performance, prepares market analysis
• Tracks closely the OTC brands A&P budget and ensures spending is fully under control
• Prepares monthly consumption forecasts
• Support BD team as needed on key marketing projects
• Manage go-to-market marketing activities related to new feature/product launches for the consumers
• Works closely and builds strong relationships with numerous inner stakeholders
• Support the roll-out of the strategy of European OTC team and feed them with local insights
Why you?
Basic Qualifications
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
• Min Bachelor’s Degree (marketing, economics, management)
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Marketing/Brand Management (FMCG / OTC products)
• Hungarian and fluent English language skills
• Solid understanding of P&L
• User level experience of MS Office programs
Preferred Qualifications
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
• Master’s degree
• Very good communication / presentation skills
• Goal orientation and action driven behavior
• Great problem-solving skills
• Strong analytical and project management skills
• Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Strong ownership and ability to working and making decisions independently
Skills
• Passion for marketing - communications and growth
• Self-driven and ambitious, willing to challenge the limits, start-up mindset
• Creative and agile personality
• Well organized with high project management skills
• Good interpersonal skills for relationship management
• Ability to multi-task and be hands-on on multiple projects at once
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