Housing Finance (HF), Kenya’s largest and leading mortgage company with country wide operations has an exciting opportunity for talented, dynamic, self-driven and result oriented individuals with a commitment to performance excellence.
Reporting to the Assistant General Manager Marketing, the Product Development & Research Manager will be part of a successful team and will be expected to support strategy implementation through management of the Product Development process and Market Research.
The successful applicant will be responsible for the following key result areas:
Reporting to the Assistant General Manager Marketing, the Product Development & Research Manager will be part of a successful team and will be expected to support strategy implementation through management of the Product Development process and Market Research.
The successful applicant will be responsible for the following key result areas:
- Coordinate and drive New product development to meet consumer needs
- Manage an ideal product portfolio to ensure optimum performance for all Housing Finance products
- Develop and execute long and short-term product development and marketing in line with the strategy
- Plan and execute product launches to ensure consistent branding positioning
- Identify and coordinate appropriate Market research and analysis to generate consumer insights and anticipate opportunities
- Effective gathering of marketing intelligence and disseminating appropriate information and solutions to key internal customers
- Manage the sectional resources ( People and Budget) to ensure optimisation
- Generate and present management reports for information and decision making
The ideal candidate should possess:
- A university degree in either Marketing or Business related field
- A Masters in Business Administration will be an added advantage
- At least 5 years experience in Marketing with a bias for research
- Good analytical skills
- Excellent knowledge and use of MS Office applications
- Good leadership skills
- Good planning and organizational skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent presentation and negotiation skills
Change & Strategy Director
Housing Finance,
Rehani House, Kenyatta Av/Koinange St
P.O. Box 30088 GPO 00100
Nairobi.
Applications should be sent via e-mail to human.resources@housing.co.ke on or before 27th July 2011.
Note: Only short listed candidates will be contacted
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