Обязанности и достижения:
8 years of overall experience in Yamaha Motor Corporation – a worldwide known Japanese manufacturer of recreational products, the leader in Russia in the markets of moto-, marine vehicles, power products.
Broad international cooperation:
Active cooperation with head-quarters in marketing, sales, dealer network development, production projects, cooperation with domestic and international partners. Good command of English. Large geography of operations: Europe, Japan, Russia, Kazakhstan.
Corporate and strategic planning:
Business planning and creation of functional strategies in marketing (product, brand, communications), partners network (dealers, trade marketing), sales (federal, regional), cooperation with manufacturers (production projects strategy). International concepts development.
Organization, launch and development of business functions, new territories coverage:
Leadership of marketing, dealer development and sales functions. Creation from zero level and development of product management, brand management, marketing communications, dealer network operations, sales, production projects. Launch and implementation of respective of business concepts. New markets coverage (Kazakhstan).
Staff management and marketing teams creation:
Creation and leadership of marketing, project, cross-functional teams. Teams creation, staff search, hiring, adoption, training, job description, target agreements, overall and operational staff control, results estimation, further development, motivation. Staff potential and strengths development.
Marketing management:
Marketing and product strategies and planning. Concepts creation. Budgeting. Product management. Brand management. Marketing communication. Project management. Marketing-mix. Cross-marketing. Close cooperation with regional sales teams. Frequent business trips. Reporting. Representation of the company’s interests on the level of top management. Negotiations.
Product management:
Product strategy. Product portfolio management (positioning, market segments, new products development and entry, existing products adaptations, increase of products competitive strength, keeping optimum product line-up, modification campaigns). Package solutions. Pricing (price policy, competitive prices analysis, positioning, price comparisons, segments, price break-downs, price lists creation and approval). Product information (presentations, product literature, arguments). Market data collection and research (competitors, dealers, products, prices, activities, sales, clients, customers, market shares and volume, production volumes). Finding the best ways to effectively promote product. Reporting. Product trainings (Yamaha Riding Academy for boats and water vehicles). Active cooperation with dealers. Sales analysis and sales forecasting.
Brand management:
Sustainable long-term YAMAHA brand development. Brands strategy. Brands positioning, development and promotion. New brands entry (YAMARIN, YAMARIN CROSS, SPORT BOATS, VELVETTE). Brands awareness and perception increase. Brands information creation (presentations). Brand communication to the target audience. Research (brand awareness, perception, competitive brands, market segments, new markets, customers). Finding the best ways to effectively promote brands. Reporting. Active cooperation with dealers. Sales analysis and sales forecasting.
Marketing communications:
Communication strategy and planning. Budgeting. Communication channels management. Invention of new tools to better promote brands and products. Design management. Communication content arrangement (make-ups, layouts, texts, graphics, video…). Information arrangement (manuals, presentations). Agencies selection and approval. Analysis of effectiveness. Research. Reporting. Public speeches.
Media: TV, radio, thematic federal and regional press, own corporate magazine «Yamaha Digest».
Outdoor: Billboards, flags, transport…
Printed materials: Product catalogues, leaflets, brochures, flyers, dealer’s certificates.
PR: Thematic press, press conferences, press tours to head-quarters and factories, test drives, boats and water vehicles races, partners meetings, exhibitions, web sites, forums, internal corporate magazine «Yamaha Digest», sport sponsorships
Exhibitions: Key federal exhibitions: «Moscow Boat Show», «Burevestnik Boat Show», «Motor Park», regional exhibitions in Russia and Kazakhstan.
Events: Test drives, boats and water vehicles races, dealer meetings, tours to head-quarters and factories, corporate events, open door campaigns, family days.
POS materials: Cradles for motorboats and water vehicles, stands for outboard motors, flags, banners, light boxes, logotypes…
Sport sponsorship: International water vehicles tournaments, 24-hour motorboats racing, sport fishing.
Sales stimulations: Activities and events to stimulate retail sales, open door campaign, fishing tournaments.
Dealer network management:
Strategy and concepts (“Four Seasons”, “Monobrand”, “YCA, YCB, 3S”, “Product Focus”). Planning. Assignment. Development. Trade marketing. Strong knowledge and understanding of dealers retail business and peculiarities of the relationships with them. Finding the ways to increase sales vis dealer network.
Assignment:
General regional analysis of the North West, South, Urals and Moscow (main market players, demand, regional market situation). Standards and procedures development (general standards, categories, premises, motivation, orders, allocations, payment, logistics, PSI). New dealers analysis and selection (negotiation, evaluation, business planning). Dealers assignment in the mentioned regions (final decision, dealer contract, integration).
Development:
Regional markets dynamics analysis (retail shops, sellers, competitors, demand). Strategical development for each dealer (general parameters development, premises, motivation, sales, network expansion). Operational work. Joint projects (COOPS, factory tours, head-quarters tours, dealers meetings, individual planning and consultancy). Product trainings. Close attention to CoV and customers’ feedback.
Trade marketing:
Planning and budgeting. Dealers’ shops and salons branding and decoration. POS materials (water vehicles and boats cradles, outboards stands, banners, indoor posters, signboards…). Demo units (boats, outboards, water vehicles, generators). Trade promotion (campaigns for dealers). Sales promotion (online and offline fishing tournaments, retail sales promo). Competitors’ activities analysis. Reporting. Presentations.
Sales management: Sales strategy and concepts. Sales management. Budgeting. Planning and forecasting MTP/ LTP. Full responsibility for sales. Creation and development of good relationships with clients. Close attention to CoV and customers’ feedback. Representation of the company’s interests on the level of top management. Negotiations. Clients database creation and development. Personal sales.
Federal sales:
Federal sales management. Federal sales of particular product categories to 85 companies in Russia and Kazakhstan. KAM. Key customers (TOP 10) operations control. Close attention to CoV and customers’ feedback. Federal sales planning (cumulatively for all regions). Consolidated orders and stocks management. Shipment management. Key clients (TOP-10) accounts receivable control. PSI Reports. Sales plans fulfilment. Staff coaching. Product certification. Personal sales.
Regional sales:
Regional sales management. Regional sales of all product categories to 27 companies in the North West and Volga regions. KAM. Close attention to CoV and customers’ feedback. Dealers daily support. Regional sales planning (for each dealer and cumulatively for the region). Full responsibility for sales and results (starting from order taking and ending in the delivery of goods to dealers’ warehouses). Orders, stocks and shipment management. Payment control. Recommendations to optimize stocks. PSI Reports. Execution of key KPIs. Market situation analysis. Staff coaching. Personal sales.
Cooperation with manufacturers and suppliers:
Close cooperation with 12 factories in Russia, Japan, USA, China, Finland, producing moto-, marine vehicles, power products. Knowledge of the production processes of the mentioned products. Localization of the production of Japanese vehicles in Russia (Kazan and Vladivostok). Adoption of the existing products for the Russian market (from market data collection – till the introduction of the modified products to the market).
Advanced business English:
Good command of English – the main language in all business operations.
Key achievements:
LAUNCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF FUNCTIONS AND PROCESSES:
Recreations products business is successfully overtaken from distributors.
Created from zero level and launched key business functions: product management, brand management, marketing communications, dealer network development, federal and regional sales, production projects.
Created strong sales-marketing teams, arranged needed operations.
Supervised the expansion of marine vehicles business to Kazakhstan.
BRAND, PRODUCT AND MANUFACTURERS:
Introduced new Finnish FRP boats brands – YAMARIN and YAMARIN CROSS.
Introduced new Japanese sport motor boats brand – YAMAHA SPORT BOATS.
Introduced and localized new Japanese FRP motor boat brand – VELVETTE ACTIVE SEDAN
Introduced over 100 new models to the Russia market (outboard motors, water vehicles, motor boats, generators).
Arranged package projects with 8 domestic boats builders.
Implemented international business concept for brand development – MONOBRAND.
Implemented international business concept for product – FOUR SEASONS.
Created from zero level and introduced new product materials for sales.
Realized 2 projects of Japanese recreational vehicles production localization (Kazan, Vladivostok).
COMMUNICATIONS:
Communication content: over 95% of all communication content are new developments.
Media: Realized over 200 projects with Russian media including TV, radio and specialized press. Introduced own corporate magazine «Yamaha Digest», published 6 issues.
Outdoor: Realized over 300 projects in outdoor, including billboards, flags, transport.
Printed materials: over 70% of all printed materials are new developments.
PR: Realized over 100 PR campaigns and projects (specialized press, press conferences, press tours, partners meetings, exhibitions, corporate and partners’ web sites, forums, social net, «Yamaha Digest», sponsoring, test drives, boats and water vehicles races, fishing tournaments, open door campaigns).
Exhibitions: Arranged the company’s participation in 12 key exhibitions in Russia and Kazakhstan: «Moscow Boat Show», «Burevestnik Boat Show», «Motor Park».
Events: Arranged over 50 events (test drives, boats and water vehicles races, dealers meetings, head office and factories tours, corporate events, open door campaigns, family days).
POS-materials: 100% of all POS-materials are new developments. Developed and introduced cradles for motorboats, water vehicles, stands for outboard motors, flags, banners, light-boxes…
Sponsorship: WV tournaments (2 events), motorboats 24-hour race (6 events), fishing tournaments (5 events).
Sales stimulation: Developed and introduced 20 activities to stimulate and increase sales.
SALES AND DEALER NETWORK:
Assigned 30 dealers in the North Western, South, Urals Federal regions and in Moscow.
Controlled sales operations of 27 dealers in the North West and Volga in Russia.
Raised turnover of the product group (outboard motors, motorboats, water vehicles, power products) by 32%.
Implemented international business concept for sales and dealer network – YCA, YCB, 3S.
Developed necessary standards and procedures for YCA, YCB, 3S assignments.