Senior Manager, Sponsorship & Promotions at MTN Nigeria

MTN Nigeria - The leader in telecommunications in Nigeria, and a part of a diverse community in Africa and the Middle East, our brand is instantly recognisable. It is through our compelling brand that we are able to attract the right talents who we carefully nurture by continuously improving our employment offerings even beyond reward and recognition.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Manager, Sponsorship & Promotions

Location: Lagos

Job Description    

• To provide overall strategic direction and ownership in conceptualizing, executing and management of all sponsorship, promotions and events in the Brand & Communications department in line with the overall marketing strategy
• Lead research and implement industry best practices with regard to sponsorships, promotions, and events
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to proactively ensure smooth implementation of all sponsorships, promotions, and events
• Create and ensure synergies through the buy-in of the various internal stake holders in MTNN on all sponsorships, promotions, and events
• Review the telecommunications market and develop Sponsorships and Events strategies across all segments to support the achievement against set business objectives for affinity, profitability, revenue, and value and market share.
• Coordinate and supervise MTNN’s sponsorship activities in the brand & communications across all segments and evaluate sponsorship proposals.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with agencies and partners, as well as develop and culture organic owned sponsorship properties thus eliminating royalty costs
• Monitor external vendors, & agencies to ensure that targeted activations are cost effective and agreed deliverables.
• Liaise with the legal division in ensuring proper negotiation and compliance to all relevant contractual agreements (MOU’s, & SLA’s)
• Monitor & evaluate metrics to measure impact of current processes and strategy related to sponsorship, promotions, and events for the various customer segments
• Manage inter-functional relations between the unit and various departmental functions to ensure seamless synergies
• Initiate and facilitate all sponsorship, promotions and events related to brand and communications unit.
• Identify training and development needs for team members and manage related skills enhancement programmes to ensure business targets are fully met.
• Review performance of individual team members and complete appraisals in accordance with the employee performance appraisal procedures and time schedules.

Job Condition    

• Open plan office normal MTN working conditions

Experience & Training Education

• HND/First Degree in Social Sciences or any other relevant discipline
• An ongoing managerial experience of 5years and above in the telecoms space will be an advantage
• Experience: 12 years’ work experience which includes:
  • Minimum of 5 years in a supervisory/managerial role in a telecoms sector or 10years in an FMCG
  • 8 years proven experience in developing and executing leveraging plans in a telecom/FMCG corporation
  • 5 years proven expertise & end to end development/execution of sponsorship using the ROI/ROO matrix to achieve set objectives Training
• Project Management for Events
• Various Telecom & sponsorship conferences

Application Closing Date