Job Title: Marketing Manager
Job Unit & Location: All Business Units – Lagos
Organisation: PZ Cussons Nigeria
The Role:
The successful candidate will be required to: – 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 – Approve category A&P plan within guidelines, creating and modifying as necessary to meet objectives – Proactively identify sources and resource needs to support category growth – Coach, manage and develop high performance teams, including sourcing brand managers – Responsible for ensuring ABM induction programme is appropriate – Proactively feed into and follow up on actions from the Business Planning process.
The Person:
The Right candidate must – Have a degree (preferably Marketing / Business Related Discipline) – Have over 5 years Brand/category Management experience preferably within FMCG – Have NPD Project Management experience – Have excellent consumer insight, innovation and NPD skills.
Have a CANDO attitude, exhibiting our core values – COURAGE,ACCOUNTABILITY, NETWORKING, DRIVE,ONENESS
Please note that only shortlisted candidates would be contacted
Closing date: 20th September 2012.
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