Vacancies in a Beverages Company in Nairobi, Kenya

Job Title: Marketing & Brand Manager – Beverages

Salary: 200K – 250K
Location: Nairobi
Our client is a leading FMCG company and they seek to hire an innovative, creative and well experienced Marketing & Brand Manager for their new beverages’ line.
He/She will be tasked with leading the company’s day to day marketing activities as well as its long term marketing strategy.

Key Responsibilities
·         Develop the marketing strategy for the company in line with its objectives.
·         Lead the execution of marketing programs from start to finish, leveraging internal support and driving collaboration
·         Analyze customer insights, consumer trends, market analysis, and marketing best practices to build successful strategies
·         Create, maintain, and conduct analytics reporting across multiple platforms and extract key insights for future campaign development and go-to-market strategies, complete with formal proposals and recommendations on tactics
·         Partner with email, performance marketing and web teams to design, test and evolve lead development tactics.
·         Develop creative briefs and guide creative direction to meet objectives for all advertising and public-facing communications, including print, digital, and video assets
·         Conceptualize and execute on multi-channel campaigns across the prospect and customer lifecycle, ensuring the alignment of communications and messaging across all channels
·         Overall responsibility for brand management and corporate identity
·         Support in new product launches
·         Maintain effective internal communications to ensure that all relevant company functions are kept informed of marketing objectives.
·         Build strategic relationships and partner with key industry players, agencies and vendors
·         Prepare and monitor the marketing budget on a quarterly and annual basis and allocate funds wisely
Skills & Qualifications
·         Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or Marketing. Candidates with a Master’s Degree in Marketing preferred.
·         At least 8 years’ experience in marketing, preferably in a Beverage manufacturing company, 4 of this leading a marketing department
·         Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
·         Strong analytical and project management skills.
·         Confident and dynamic personality.
·         Strong creative outlook.
How to Apply
If you are up to the challenge, possess the necessary qualifications and experience; please send your CV quoting the job title on the email subject (Marketing & Brand Manager – Beverages) to jobs@corporatestaffing.co.ke on/before Thursday 24th October 2019.

Job Title: Country Sales Manager – Beverages
Salary: 200K – 300K
Location: Nairobi
Reports to: General Manager
Our client is a leading FMCG company who seek to hire an experienced and result-oriented Country Sales Manager for their beverages’ line.
The successful candidate will lead and manage sales within the country to enable profitable growth and expansion within the target market.
Key Responsibilities
·         Implement the country’s strategy while monitoring the scope areas in line with the sales strategy, policies, processes and procedures to achieve the set objectives.
·         Develop and cascade the Section targets through a performance management structure while inspiring the team to achieve the section scorecard in line with overall objective
·         In-charge of the assigned territory’s sales operations, departments and personnel involved in the sales function
·         Achieve monthly, quarterly, and annual targets for sales and payments.
·         Optimise primary and secondary sales through delivering right merchandise specific to all the verticals as in distributors, retailers and wholesalers to deliver targets.
·         Evaluate market trends, gather competitor information, identify trends that effect current and future growth of regional sales and profitability for decision making.
·         Develop customer relationships through regular operational reviews to ensure that product availability, distribution and opportunities are grasped
·         Develop and implement efficient route to market strategies
·         Prepare daily, weekly and monthly reports, so as to keep abreast with targets v/s actual.
·         Benchmark and implement best practices in marketing and other respective areas of work.
·         Implement product quality, customer & Service Excellence and Change initiatives to achieve desired business plans and culture
·         Manage talent including coaching, mentoring, developing, motivating, training and evaluating staff to achieve highest levels of performance
Skills & Qualifications
·         Degree in Sales & Marketing or related field of study
·         At-least 5 years’ experience in sales, preferably in the beverage industry
·         Excellent negotiation and selling skills
·         Good analytical and planning skills
·         Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
·         Good leadership skills with proven experience of coaching and mentoring teams
How to Apply
If you are up to the challenge, possess the necessary qualifications and experience; please send your CV quoting the job title on the email subject (Country Sales Manager – Beverages) to jobs@corporatestaffing.co.ke on/before Thursday 24th October 2019.
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