Brand Marketing Manager (FMCG) at Ascentech Services Limited

Ascentech Services Limited is a full-fledged Human Resource Solution Provider incorporated in 2013 with its Head Office in Lagos, Nigeria. We are committed to forging long-term partnerships with our clients by creating and delivering robust and flexible services that address the changing needs of their business through our core offerings.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Brand Marketing Manager (FMCG)

Location: Sango, Ota, Ogun
Employment Type: Full-time

Purpose

• To define brand strategy and architecture, analyze market/ customer trends and competition, provide inputs into developing new products within the limits of category business plan with the objective of enhancing brand market share, sales volume and profitability. End-to-end responsibility for the brand.

Areas of Responsibility
Brand Planning:

• Prepare brand architecture (target markets/ group, products, launch and phase out support);
• Conduct competition analysis for market practices in supporting brand (promotions/ activations);
• Plan for brand initiatives based on growth prospects and gaps in current portfolio;
• Share plan with Media/ MR team and seek inputs on related activities/ cost/ calendar;
• Conduct overall analysis on marketing spends for the brand in order to ensure achievement of brand market share and health index.

Brand Communication, Development and Execution:

• Provide briefs to agency based on brand architecture (consumer/ product attributes, differentiation, competition etc.);
• Review concept/ routes options prepared by agency; Coordinate for research of identified route options;
• Analyze feedback and shortlist route; Review scripts prepared by agency; Conduct script/ animations research; Analyse feedback;
• Select production house for ad creation; Participate in pre-production meetings to provide insights; Monitor and review ad production;
• Monitor effectiveness of brand communicate post deployment in order to ensure effective brand awareness and recall.

Portfolio Planning:

• Conduct industry analysis on products, competition players, growth segments, emerging segments etc.;
• Identify gaps and white spaces in current portfolio;
• Plan for introduction of new products in portfolio/ initiatives for products in current portfolio in order to ensure portfolio meets the requirements of market/customers.

Packaging Development:

• Prepare packaging brief with inputs on target group, market, competition, differentiation etc. to develop superior packaging structures in design.
• Pack test with consumers on likability and purchase intent. Projects to adhere to benchmark costs.

Trade Promotion:

• Coordination with trade promotion & Sales vertical for brand schemes.

Brand Plan Review:

• Monitor and review progress of brand against defined plan (using Research Agency data, Brand track etc.);
• Analyze competition performance; Discuss findings with HO and identify actions/ initiatives for market, manufacturing and product development in order to ensure performance of brand as per plan.

Consumer Promotion:

• Monitor and review implementation in order to create effective pull for products by the consumer in the market.

Market Research Conceptualization, Execution & Findings Implementation:

• Analyse data and identify key trends/ correlations from the MR report prepared by agency; Identify key action points and share with relevant functions (PD/ Packaging etc.);
• Share findings with marketing head and finalize initiatives to be taken up for alignment of initiatives with consumer/ market requirements.

Media Implementation:

• Discuss brief with media team/ agency and explain script; In cases interact with media partners and review media innovation if any;
• Evaluate initiatives with Media Team performance and identify reason for success/ failure in order to ensure effective brand awareness and recall.

New Product/ Product Extension Planning, Development and Launch:

• Gather input on new product from usage and attribute study for the category/ products;
• Identify new product positioning/ story and directional product/ emotional attributes;
• Prepare and provide new product brief (market size, competition, flavors, grammages, differentiation etc.) to PD;
• Test prototype samples and provide inputs to PD team during development phase; Coordinate for CPT with MR/ PD team; Analyze CPT results;
• Evaluate financials and discuss with PD/ Manufacturing in case of issues;
• Present product for approval to HOD & Leadership; In Order to ensure successful launch of new product/ extensions in the market.

Operating Network:

• External: Creative agency; Packaging agency; Activation agency; Media agency; Research agency
• Internal: Marketing, Manufacturing, Finance, Procurement, Research, Product Development, Quality, R&D, Legal, TM, Sales & Logistics team

Education & Relevant Experience

• MBA in Marketing from Tier I Top Management Institute with experience in FMCG business. Experience in Brand Management / Category management is must.
• Knowledge and Business Understanding-
• Experience in Food & Beverage - Consumer Brands is a plus.
• Experience in Sales, managing agencies is a plus.
• Fluency in native languages is a plus. (Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo…)
• Strong Experience in Brand Management (product, price, promotion, placement) managing a brand and showing demonstrated success growing the brand, market share, equity.
• Knowledge of statutory compliance related to the category products (legal declarations/ implications);
• Basic knowledge of category/ product specific manufacturing process and technology;
• Basic knowledge of finance (overhead/ revenue apportionment, budgeting, product pricing etc.),

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: cv@ascentech.com.ng using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.