Job Title: Director of Marketing
Job ID: 00090145
Employer: Ericsson Nigeria
Purpose: Director of Marketing is responsible for the Regional marketing function in line with the Group marketing strategy and Regional Growth plan.
Responsibility and authority
Role;
• To oversee the Marketing function in the Region
• Develop and implement marketing plan to drive the global marketing strategy as well as Regional growth plan.
• Drive alignment with the various Units in the Region, GF and Business Units.
• Drive market category growth and facilitate leads generation
• Drive brand, category, experience and product marketing in alignment with the EP, CUs and Communication.
• Drive all the marketing customer engagement and manage single point of contact for the CUs
Authority;
• Management of responsibilities in accordance with directives from GF Marketing. Leads the development and implementation of the Regional Marketing plan.
Delegation of responsibility;
• Responsibility delegation is driven by regional directives or the Head of Strategy and Marketing.
Interface, contacts and co-operation;
• Regional LT
• Market and industry players (i.e. new business actors, key influencers)
• Regional Industry analysts
• Regional Management Team
• Customer Units
• Group Functions
• Engagement Practices
• Customers
Requirements: Master's degree in related fields (MBA, MSc or similar).
Experience:
• Proven and solid general management background with strong business acumen and experience in senior positions in an international environment
• Significant experience (> 10 years) relevant for driving marketing strategy development and execution, and business development.
• Significant telecom industry experience and/or experience in areas with regional growth potential. Experience in related industries such as telecoms, media, ICT and consumer electronics is desirable.
• Demonstrated background of delivering of marketing interventions that created business impact.
Skills and Competence:
• Ability to develop and drive change to execute on business objectives.
• Strong leadership and teambuilding skills with proven capability to motivate and develop a team to success.
• Possess a sound business sense and a strong ability to think strategically.
• Proven ability to drive change, strategy execution and inspire innovative strategic and marketing initiatives.
• Excellent communication and value argumentation skills, both verbal and written. Ability to build trust in external engagements.
• Strong planning, delivery and organizational skills
• Self-motivated, resourceful and result-oriented.
• Strong social and interpersonal skills.
Job: Marketing
Primary Location: ZA-GT-Johannesburg
Other Locations: NG-Lagos-Lagos
Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
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