Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Brand Manager

Our client, a fast moving consumer good firm is looking forward to recruiting a Brand Manager.

Salary: 70K and above

Roles and Responsibilities

    Development of brand strategies that ensure brand profitability
    Developing various product strategies
    Preparing monitoring and controlling brand budgets
    Developing core positioning and repositioning messages for the brand to ensure growth
    Analyze the various brand sales performance and develop reactive or proactive strategies.

    Membership of the product development committee that reviews product quality and ensure that the brand keeps developing new products in line with the changing consumer needs
    Continuously monitor the market to determine threats to the brand, including substitutes.
    Ensuring that all brand activities are in line or do not contradict the corporate image

Sponsorship & Events

    Make proposals for sponsorships that will help the brand to achieve its set marketing objectives.
    Maximizing on sponsorships and ensuring that the brand attains mileage in terms of sales, publicity, brand association etc from each event / sponsorship
    Keeping a Calendar of events that the brand is sponsoring and receive or write reports on them with clear recommendations on how to activate the events in future.
    Working closely with the events team and ensuring that the team is clearly briefed about the brand objectives for the sponsorship prior to the event.
    Developing plans on how to sponsor various events or sponsorships and ensuring that they are well executed and the brand interacts with the targeted consumers
    Carrying out brand research, or monitoring consumer behaviour during our sponsored events
    Assist in analyzing sponsorship mileage achieved.

Point of Sale

    Ensuring that the brand maintains good, impactful strategically placed POS placements in outlets
    Maintain adequate stocks of Point of Sale materials and liaise with central stores for monthly stock figures.
    Develop good POS materials that help achieve set brand objectives.

Sales Promotions

    Ensure that promotional materials are ready on time.
    Briefing the sales team on the marketing activities and promotions and harmonising BTL & ATL activities.
    Analyze the performance of promotions vis-a-vis set objectives.
    Develop promotional campaigns that will help grow the brand sales / market share

Public Relations

    Ensure that the brand maintains a good image/relationship with stakeholders while at the same time not affecting the corporate brand.
    Organize Press conferences in liaison with the PR agency and/or Event organizer.
    Ensuring that the brand maintains quarterly brand visibility in the media.
    Ensuring that brand and corporate give a ways and information such as leaflets, brochures etc do not conflict.
    Understanding the corporate communication strategy and stepping in for the top management where necessary due to the nature of your brand

Advertising

    Ensuring that the brand remains relevant and keeps interacting with consumers through various mediums and maintaining a good SOV.
    Analyze the effectiveness of both your brand and competitor campaigns.
    Working closely with the advertising agencies to ensure delivery of effective advertising and marketing programmes.
    Analysing the KARF audience research and ensuring that media planning is in line with the current media habits
    Ensuring that our brand communication is adopted to the various markets where we sell

Internal Communication

    Communicate major brand events to staff and encourage them to participate
    Informing internal staff of various brand promotions and brand positioning changes

Marketing Information System

    Ensure that the Company maintains a good Marketing Information System that will enable you to develop relevant brand strategies in line with the market trends.
    Monitoring performance of the brand and its various products and advising management accordingly

Qualification

The ideal candidate will have:

    A University degree in Commerce, Marketing or related field
    A Post graduate Diploma in Marketing
    5 years relevant experience
    Good experience in Brand management, Marketing, advertising and activations

If you are up to the challenge, posses the necessary qualification and experience, please send your CV only indicating why you are the most suitable candidate for the role clearly quoting the job title on the email subject.

Via email to: jobs@staff-kenya.com

Please indicate current or last salary.

The Recruiting Manager
Corporate staffing Services
Suite 3, 13th Floor, Development house,
Moi Avenue, Nairobi.

N.B: We do not charge any fee for receiving your CV in our database no for interviewing.

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