Director of Marketing Job at Ericsson Nigeria

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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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