Details of Position:
Applications are hereby required from suitably qualified candidates to fill the vacant position of a Marketing Manager
Applications are hereby required from suitably qualified candidates to fill the vacant position of a Marketing Manager
Candidates that suit the vacant position are hereby
required to apply accordingly.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
The candidate will be responsible for the
following
- Proactively feed into and follow up on actions from the Business Planning process.Create, develop and implement category strategy to support the overall marketing strategy ensuring that the Pan African/Cross functional aspects are aligned
- Initiate the NPD process ensuring that the NPI process requirements are managed and delivered according to targets (360 degree marketing)
- Ensure category pricing supports brand positioning and is relevant to the competitive arena
- Delivery of overall budgeted profitability by growing and sustaining category performance
- Lead the selection of the appropriate trade channels.
- Explore and exploit new opportunities for the category portfolio
- Monitor, control and report category performance through brand health indicators such as NNS, GM, MC & key consumer KPIs providing solutions to shortfalls
- Proactively identify sources and resource needs to support category growth
- Approve category A&P plan within guidelines, creating and modifying as necessary to meet objectives
- Coach, manage and develop high performance teams, including sourcing brand managers
- Responsible for ensuring ABM induction programme is appropriate
Qualifications
The candidate must possess the following
- A degree (preferably Marketing / Business Related Discipline)
5 years Brand/category Management experience preferably within FMCG
Have NPD Project Management experience.
Excellent consumer insight, innovation and NPD skills.
Have a CAN-DO attitude, exhibiting our core values – COURAGE, ACCOUNTABILITY, NETWORKING, DRIVE and ONENESS
Application Deadline: 20 Sep 2012
Please note that only short listed candidates
will be contacted.
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