The role and responsibilities of a third line manager include overseeing sales forecasts and objectives at multiple levels, ensuring growth and productivity targets are met. They are also responsible for promoting products, validating marketing plans and event expenses, and supervising activities. Additional responsibilities involve developing key customers, monitoring inventory, facilitating new distributors, managing personnel issues, and identifying training needs for the team.
3. Sales
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Achieve optimum market share & leadership
Enhance successful launch of new products
Analyze & monitor the fluctuation of sales & do
the necessary intervention
4. Product Promotion
Ensure execution of market plans and
implementation of strategies
Ensure successful conduction of activities/events
planned
Utilization of inputs: Validate & Approve suggestions
from SLMs for appropriate reduction or addition of
inputs
Identify needs of special investment on customers
for market development and weak territory
development
5. Product Promotion
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Validate & sanction expense on events, activities &
special campaigns
Validate & control the dispatches made for new product
Overall supervise the conduction of Cycle Meets, New
Product Briefing Region wise
6. Customer
Constantly work & develop key customers for
future organizational growth
Work, identify & develop a pool of opinion
builders to have a pool of speakers
Monitoring & guiding SLM & FLM for
investments on key & important customers
7. Customer
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Ensure timely response for all customer requests
Organizing, Guiding & Monitoring activities of
SLM, FLM & SOs during events namely DGM,
Sym., State/Zonal/Regional Conf.
8. Distribution
Ongoing monitoring of inventories of key focus
brands, new products (location wise) & suggest
IDST in case of shortages & also suggest
additional stock requirements
Monitor & plan liquidation of Near Expiry
Products
9. Distribution
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Facilitate the appointment of New Stockist by
validating the required information by
organization’s policy
Guide & support SLM & FLM in resolving trade
issues
10. People
Identifying & recruiting suitable individuals
whenever vacancies / expansions arise
Ensure proper induction of new joinees (SO, FLM,
SLM)
Ensure maintenance of norms & standards of
company policies
Ensure co-ordination, co-operation and discipline in
team functioning
11. People
Work in coordination with SLM & FLM for retaining
performing individuals by suggesting appropriate
reward/ recognition
Identify people with issues of Discipline, Attitude,
Behavior & Performance and suggest corrective
measures/disciplinary action to H.O.
Identify Training & Developmental needs of team &
organize training through H.O.