Best Search Recruitment Limited - Our client, a multinational cosmetic and beauty product company, is recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Marketing Manager
Location: Lagos
Position Summary
- The Marketing Manager is responsible for aiding the brand and sales team in all areas of the Marketing process including the strategic development of promotional and ongoing programs.
Responsibilities
- Coordinates the ideation, planning and budgeting, production and implementation of all in store activities, including point of sales materials and promotions.
- Responsible for driving very strong social media presence.
- Brand custodian - Responsible for maintaining brand value and DNA and driving brand parity in all products, services, packaging and merchandising material.
- Management of Marketing team.
- Management and Implementation of all marketing campaigns and initiatives.
- Manages the point of sales material (including budget, logistics, distribution, assortment…) by finding the most efficient solutions.
- Collaborates with sales, and PR team to build sales promotions and product communication.
- Responsible for all events planning and execution from conception to implementation.
- Collaborates with sales teams to turn the "selling stories" into sales tools to effectively present the brands, the products and the marketing initiatives to their customers.
- Collaborates with marketing intelligence resource to read and report results of activities and to provide recommendations and forecasts.
- Supports local teams in the execution of the activities and in achieving their sales and budget objectives, while ensuring the desired product benefits and brand values/equity are properly communicated.
- Supports local teams in the execution of their training programs.
- Ensures that the local feedback is taken into account by regularly visiting sales teams, customers and stores.
- Ensures efficient spending of marketing budget and supervises the trade marketing in all sales locations.
Requirements
- Minimum of a Degree qualification in a relevant field, MBA preferred.
- 5-7 years experience in sales/marketing.
- FMCG experience.
- Highly organized with proven strategic abilities.
- Thorough product knowledge with strong analytical and quantitative skills. Detail-oriented and able to multi-task effectively.
- Creativity, originality, business intuition.
- Strong technical - PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
Application Closing Date
31st March, 2015.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV's to:
[email protected]