Marketing Manager at SAB Miller

Description:

• Conduct opportunity assessment
• Deliver brand positioning and portfolio strategy
• Manage brand strategy and activity planning
• Lead innovation
• Deliver commercial value
• Manage activation development and execution

Requirements:

QUALIFICATIONS / EXPERIENCE & SKILLS REQUIRED:

• B. Degree in a commercial field (Economics, business management, etc.)
• Strong understanding of marketing strategy, planning issues, budgeting and priority setting
• At least 8 years working experience the last 3 at middle management level in a FMCG Sector and preferably as a Brands Manager.
• A keen understanding of the dynamics of the market place.

KEY COMPETENCIES AND ATTRIBUTES:

• Must possess strong leadership qualities and vision
• A creative thinker and possess initiative
• Capable of handling complex situations and a lot of pressure
• Good negotiator with good interpersonal skills
• Comprehensive knowledge of agency processes.
• Good computer and financial management competence.
• Strategic insight essential. Ability to take research, consumer insight evidence and develop, plan and implement strategic “step change”.
• Conceptual skills essential. Ability to think long-term and pull information together to make it bigger than “the whole” i.e. Portfolio planning, NPD output, country planning, macro interpretation, brand planning and implementation.
• Ability to think entrepreneurially, act on own initiative and make things happen.