Production Planning Manager

Recruiter:

The Hiring House

Job Ref:

JHB000711/LM

Date posted:

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Location:

Centurion, South Africa

SUMMARY:
We are looking for a Product Planning Manager to develop and implement successful monthly product campaigns within the African continent.

POSITION INFO:
The following essential job functions will be applicable:

- Develop and manage the product portfolio, ensuring alignment with market & distributor needs, and company strategy.

- Plan monthly and promotional campaigns across the direct selling channel across the different markets the client is operating in.

- Pricing: responsible for price setting, developing and driving pricing strategies to maximise sales and profitability.

- Track and analyse campaign performance and where applicable, identify areas of improvements.

- Instrumental in reviewing and selecting product ordering from the client's plants globally.

- Collaborate with digital and content team on the themes and selling tools for distributors and Salesforce.

- Prepare monthly postmortem plans to analyse the performance of a campaign.
- Measure and analyse product and campaign performance, providing recommendations for improvement.

- Communicate and collaborate with cross functional teams and stakeholders within the organisation.

- Deliver campaigns that deliver operating profit.

- Lead demand planning and product forecasting in collaboration with supply chain.

- Track sales performance, highlighting risks and opportunities for product categories.

- Effective management of excess stock tracking performance of plans/products and make plans for excess stock.

- Creative: Work with the creative team in conceptualizing company marketing materials for direct selling channel.

- Distributor queries: effectively handle and resolve Distributor queries pertaining to product promotions.

- Partner with Sales team to work on monthly launches, product training material to support Distributors and Sales Force.

- Reporting and presentations: present monthly campaign sign offs and weekly sales updates to the team.

- Ensure pricing can be finalised within required timelines and campaign product codes and images are loaded.

Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Management or related field.

- 5+ years product planning experience

- Direct selling experience a prerequisite.

- Able to display perseverance, resilience, and the required energy to achieve objectives and outputs.

- Able to initiate action spontaneously without being urged to do so.

- Ability to develop new ideas and to create new concepts and solutions to problems.

- Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret data into actionable strategies.

- Well-developed computer skills and experience (MS Word; Excel; Power Point).

- Well-developed planning and organizing abilities, systematic with high level of attention to detail

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

- Creativity and storytelling ability in product positioning.

Please call us on for more information.

NB: Should you not hear from us in 6 weeks please consider your application unsuccessful.

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