Assistant Brand Manager
Sales & Marketing Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Employment Type: Full-Time
Summary:
Our client is a global multinational Food & Beverage company, worldwide leader in most of its category portfolio. With global or local specific brands and products, the core focus is to meet the diverse needs and preferences of consumers all over the world.
Operating in Africa for more than 80 years, the Company has 5 markets within, the Equatorial African Region (EAR) being amongst them. The regional operations are co-ordinated from Nairobi, Kenya to offer shared service across countries in Central, East, part of Southern Africa including the Island markets and Horn of Africa.
With this regional expertise, the Company aims at enhancing the business potential of this region, which is seen as an important source of future growth, and bring it up to the level of performance that the Company experiences in other regions of Africa and the world.Sales & Marketing Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Employment Type: Full-Time
Summary:
Our client is a global multinational Food & Beverage company, worldwide leader in most of its category portfolio. With global or local specific brands and products, the core focus is to meet the diverse needs and preferences of consumers all over the world.
Operating in Africa for more than 80 years, the Company has 5 markets within, the Equatorial African Region (EAR) being amongst them. The regional operations are co-ordinated from Nairobi, Kenya to offer shared service across countries in Central, East, part of Southern Africa including the Island markets and Horn of Africa.
By reinforcing business and product categories focus, making operations more efficient, developing cross fertilization or enhancing peoples’ knowledge transfer and empowerment, this shared service expertise is expected to accelerate growth and meet the company’s high ambition for the Region.
Our client continues to be viewed as one of the leading global companies in Corporate Social Responsibility, particularly in the developing world. Being a committed leader in environmental performance, they ensure that natural resources are preserved and that waste management enjoys much attention in all operations worldwide. The company is an equal-opportunity employer with robust talent management policies, and systems. They value and reward individual and team contributions to business results.
Application Deadline
2011-04-29
Job Details
Job Summary
Reporting to the Group Brand Manager, the Assistant Brand Manager will be responsible for Developing and executing brand plans so as to deliver market share, sales volume, revenue and profit growth objectives.
Description:
Responsibilities
* Deliver brand business objectives in terms of market share, sales volume and revenue and profit growth
* Define key brand challenges and develop category strategies to achieve brand business objectives
* Provide sound inputs into the demand planning process to ensure accurate monthly sales forecast
* Initiate, propose, execute, monitor and evaluate campaigns and activities for management buy-in and approval
* Implement, review and evaluate the brand plan in line with the brand/category strategy, covering brand communication, promotions, consumer insight, pricing strategy and product innovation/renovation
* Control PFME and TTS investments while ensuring effective advertising and promotional policies and practices for the brands
* Perform control of the POP/MD services and premium detailing stocks
* Monitor the profitability of the product range and its SKUs so as to highlight gaps against the target set
Requirements:
Requirements
* Degree in marketing and/or nutrition
* Experience in developing a portfolio of nutrition/pharmaceutical product brands and independently managing marketing projects such as organizing brand, media, promotion and sampling activities, and communication campaigns with HealthCare Professionals and/or consumers on topics related to infant nutrition, products, etc.
* Superior communication, presentation and persuasive skills
* Good analytical skills
* Coordination, planning of budgets and time management skills
* Ability to deal closely with contacts and build strong, sustainable relationships
* Self motivated, passionate and results-oriented
* Basic knowledge in supply chain management
* Learning agility
Job ID: 37684
Closing Date: 29 April 2011
Contact Info: Adept Systems
Web Address : http://www.adeptsys.biz
How to apply:
Send your application including a cover letter indicating your desire to work with our client; a detailed CV highlighting relevant experience, details of current and expected salary, a daytime phone contact, email address, and the names of three professional referees by close of business Friday, 29th April 2011
Adept Systems
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS
P O Box 6416, Nairobi, GPO 00100
Web: www.adeptsys.biz
Only short listed candidates will be contacted. Please note that we do not charge fees for receiving or processing job applications. Visit our website for more vacancies.
Reporting to the Group Brand Manager, the Assistant Brand Manager will be responsible for Developing and executing brand plans so as to deliver market share, sales volume, revenue and profit growth objectives.
Description:
Responsibilities
* Deliver brand business objectives in terms of market share, sales volume and revenue and profit growth
* Define key brand challenges and develop category strategies to achieve brand business objectives
* Provide sound inputs into the demand planning process to ensure accurate monthly sales forecast
* Initiate, propose, execute, monitor and evaluate campaigns and activities for management buy-in and approval
* Implement, review and evaluate the brand plan in line with the brand/category strategy, covering brand communication, promotions, consumer insight, pricing strategy and product innovation/renovation
* Control PFME and TTS investments while ensuring effective advertising and promotional policies and practices for the brands
* Perform control of the POP/MD services and premium detailing stocks
* Monitor the profitability of the product range and its SKUs so as to highlight gaps against the target set
Requirements:
Requirements
* Degree in marketing and/or nutrition
* Experience in developing a portfolio of nutrition/pharmaceutical product brands and independently managing marketing projects such as organizing brand, media, promotion and sampling activities, and communication campaigns with HealthCare Professionals and/or consumers on topics related to infant nutrition, products, etc.
* Superior communication, presentation and persuasive skills
* Good analytical skills
* Coordination, planning of budgets and time management skills
* Ability to deal closely with contacts and build strong, sustainable relationships
* Self motivated, passionate and results-oriented
* Basic knowledge in supply chain management
* Learning agility
Job ID: 37684
Closing Date: 29 April 2011
Contact Info: Adept Systems
Web Address : http://www.adeptsys.biz
How to apply:
Send your application including a cover letter indicating your desire to work with our client; a detailed CV highlighting relevant experience, details of current and expected salary, a daytime phone contact, email address, and the names of three professional referees by close of business Friday, 29th April 2011
Adept Systems
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS
P O Box 6416, Nairobi, GPO 00100
Web: www.adeptsys.biz
Only short listed candidates will be contacted. Please note that we do not charge fees for receiving or processing job applications. Visit our website for more vacancies.
