Director of Advertising at a Leading Privately Owned Multinational Company

A leading privately owned multinational company with headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria and presence in some other African Countries. We desire to recruit a senior level, highly competent, result oriented, talented and self-motivated individual with excellent track record of achievement in sectors like Advertising/PR Agencies, FMCG, Telecommunications, Banking, Public Services to fill the vacant position below:

Job Title: Director of Advertising

Location: Lagos

Responsibilities

• Understand, develop and communicate the company’s Brand and Advertising Strategy, as well as the Annual Supporting Operating Plan.
• Supervise advertising, promotional and creative campaigns to promote the company’s Brand, Products and Services
• Develop strong partnership with relevant Parties: Internally with Marketing and Sales, and externally with production houses and advertising agencies.
• Present, on regular basis, the integrated marketing communications plans, strategies tactics and progress responds to the Board and Management, as well as insights into activities of competitions
• Provide presentation and product demonstration support during the lunch of new products and services to the media, as well as to internal and external public.
• Coordinate the in-house team-creative, media, out of home, online and events/sponsorships units to achieve synergy in the competition, planning, execution and evaluation of IMC campaigns
• Monitor the business environment and surveillance services
• Lead Brainstorming sessions and creative processes towards idea generation for stunning campaigns
• Manage relationships with the local and foreign advertising agencies as well as other communications partners.
• Develop annual Advertising and Marketing communication plan/calendar and monitor same for accomplishment

Qualifications, Skills and experience

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Mass Communication, Marketing, Business Administration, Social Sciences or any other related field. An MBA will be an added advantage
• Excellent communication, organisational and writing skills
• Sound knowledge of marketing and promotional channels in local markets
• Experience in working with cross functional teams and ability to carry them along in driving marketing communication initiatives
• Hands-on experience in managing the total Advertising/PR functions for a major FMCG, Consumer Durable, Financial Institution, Telecom or Parastatal body.
• Above 40 years of age with minimum of 20 years of cognate relevant experience, at least 5 of which must be at the senior management position in a reputable Advertising/IMC/PR Agency, or Corporate Communications department of top FMCG, Telecommunications,  Banking or similar organizations.

Application Closing Date
10th September, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV as an MS Word document with contact telephone numbers, current work location, e-mail address and scanned passport-size photograph to: [email protected] using the "Director of Advertising" as the subject of the mail.