Director of Advertising at a Leading Business Group

A leading business group with offices and assets in all the states of Nigeria is seeking to engage experienced, intelligent, passionate and self-driven industry professionals to fill the position below:

Job Title: Director of Advertising

Reference No.: DA - 1
Location: Nigeria

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the advertising department, driving a high- performance, customer-centric, and results-based culture.
• Develop weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual sales quotas around which advertising strategies and solutions are built within the advertising department and ensure that advertising goals are met within the timelines.
• Map out advertising strategies that support sales plans, attract and retain new consumers, and encourage the spending rate of the business current consumers.
• Communicate quotas and commissions that will ensure the success of advertising efforts and initiatives,
• Work closely with the marketing and sales departments in order to ensure effective sales prospecting and alignment of marketing approaches to minimize conflicts of interest and to enable a unified front in reaching for overall business goals.
• Work with the human resources department to source and retain quality personnel in order to guarantee smooth execution of advertising initiatives.
• Gather ideas and feedback from the field leading to the formulation of more effective advertisement strategies and solutions.
• Explore business data insights through relevant publications, seminars and events in order to continuously keep abreast of current industry best practices that will facilitate keeping the business ahead of its competition.
• Drive strategic product decisions through the evaluation of market-trends and prospective analysis of the business's products and revenue performance.
• Perform other duties as may be directed by the company management.

Educational Qualifications

• A Bachelor's Degree in social sciences, sales, marketing, or any other relevant field.
• Postgraduate/Master’s Degree and additional qualifications in marketing, sales and allied fields from reputable institutions will be an added advantage.

Requirements & Skills:

• A minimum of 20 years working experience with 7 to 10 years in a senior management position, preferably working as a Head of Advertising Sales Head of Advertising Operations, Head of Advertising Technology or as a Director of Advertising in a flagship/reputable multi-national company.
• The ideal candidate will have vast experience working with modern advertising tools, platforms, and technologies.
• The candidate will also have had proven and successful experience managing an advertising team from the conceptualization of a campaign to the successful achievement of its objectives.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal and communication skills. Communication of instructions and directives must be crystal clear down the line in order to ensure efficient performance of the advertising teams and hence the entire advertising department.
• Strategic thinking, high creativity and problem solving skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (essentially Ms Word, PowerPoint, and Excel).
• The ideal candidate will be between 45 and 60 years of age.

Remuneration

• The Group offers a very competitive and attractive remuneration packages, in a very dynamic and exciting work environment.

Application Closing Date
9th November, 2020.