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Lagos |
Posted 8 months ago |
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Director, Channel Strategy and Recruitment, Immediate Consumption, Africa
Job ID: R-100301
Location: Lagos
JobType: Full time
Relocation: none
Position Overview
- Our vision is loved brands, done sustainably, for a better-shared future. We strive to provide cutting-edge excellence in ingredients, innovation, design, and marketing.
- This role serves as the lead in the organization between the category/brand teams and commercial operating teams to communicate initiatives to bottlers and customer teams.
- The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate, relationship building and leadership capabilities while working across multiple channels.
What You’ll Do for Us
- Represents the total Trademark commercial perspective in all discussions/decisions across bottler network and communicates initiatives to bottlers and customer teams.
- Ensure representation of channel needs and proper translation of brand strategies across retail & foodservice channels.
- Partners with brand team to ensure commercial leadership organization serves as a single source of direction delivering and transformation brand strategies into actionable plans.
- Responsible for the development, implementation, and achievement of annual commercial business plan.
- Align channel input on price/pack architecture and ensure channel coherency and directs and steward’s commercial development of all new item introductions
- Lead collaboration with Revenue Growth Management functions to develop tools and tracking for sales teams to ensure maximization of revenue and gross profit.
- Support category/brand teams in determining program budget, manages the program allocations across channels/customers and re-allocates funding based on performance.
- Supports Commercial Leadership category strategic planning and performance management.
- Lead development of tools and tracking to ensure profitable growth across the portfolio.
- Partners with product/package leads in creation of brand/ package launch decks/PAGS for delivery to channel planning and sales teams for use in the market
Qualifications & Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business, or another related field.
- 5-7 years of experience, preferably in the consumer goods/beverages industry
- Leadership and experience working across multiple channels – e.g., large store, small store, and Foodservice/On Premise channels.
- Experience in brand and category management, coordinating pricing and promotions, and customer and sales.
- Demonstrates strong business acumen through the ability to create a 1-3-year business plan for brand/category and a path to achieve that vision, anticipating future trends and needs in the marketplace and business; demonstrates innovation/creativity.
- Demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate and build relationships at all organizational levels; communicates long-term vision and shorter-term opportunities through clear & simple messages.
- People leadership/management – specifically, managing virtual teams and influencing multiple stakeholders with different priorities.
- Strong track record of leadership across cross-functional teams
Skills:
- Influencing; Communication; Strategy Development; Systems Thinking; Marketing Activation; Influence; Marketing Execution; Teamwork; Engaging Leadership; Marketing Strategies; Channels Strategy; Project Management
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
Job Features
Job Category | Director |