- New role leading the Marketing Function for our two most profitable & biggest profit contributors (NOPBT $36mm) Bottlers for SSA, namely Crown Beverages and MOHA. This Cluster is the profit engin for our SSA Beverages business, and Uganda the only LRB Stronghold in SSA.
- Based on the importance & business magnitude of this Cluster, the SSA org structure is optimised to have a senior marketing leader for this important Cluster.
- Lead stepping up 3YR Growth Plan and Annual operation plan to drive sustainable growth through building solid brands & innovating products in partnership with our bottlers for beverages.
- Partnership with Marketing Director & relevant global & category teams, to ensure alignment on category strategy, brands plans, calendar planning, and innovations deployments.
Leads, Manages, and Grows business profitably:
- Partner with the Marketing Director in developing BU Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and identify locally relevant activation initiatives to drive BU agenda and P&L.
- Drives and creates competitive gaps through business efficiency improvements at every step of the value chain.
- Makes business decisions for the category through a strong understanding of key issues and trends based on data analysis and insights.
- Influence & lead our bottler partners in executing our agreed upon and set AOP.
- Leads & Manages Cluster 1 FOBO Beverages businesses across SSA business unit:
- 3 markets: Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya.
- 1 categories: Beverages.
- Brands: Pepsi, Pepsi ZS, Mirinda, 7Up, Mountain Dew, Sting, Aquafina, Evervess.
- Translate annual AOP roll-out opportunities into tangible, account specific marketing execution action plans to drive business growth and meet business targets (Volume & Share) while ensuring maximum effectiveness of execution.
- Leads and manages the brand Business Planning process with different stakeholders/ sector/ global & commercialization teams.
- Ensures that brand plans are executed on time and flawlessly on-time in full by defining WHO, WHAT, WHEN.
- Leads total brand performance tracking & monthly brand audit with commercial team.
- Sets challenging team goals and clear standards for success.
- Gives direct actionable feedback.
- Coaches Brand BM.
- Champions an intimate and holistic understanding of our consumers by simplifying and cutting through complexity in consumer/category understanding to translate into actionable brand insights.
- Works closely with commercial teams to ensure that there is an efficient customer & shopper marketing strategy that is based on key shopper research, insights, and learnings.
- Ensures that all brand activities are aligned with the Brand Essence and Vision.
- Ensures that our communication team is integrated and that all our partners are aligned.
- Leads Key brand affinity initiatives, and expansion plans.
- Responsible for Executing brand pack price architecture including new pack sizes initiatives across portfolio.
- Provides strategic direction/input for development of Channel, Customer, and Field Sales strategies in line with business requirements.
- Constantly challenges the sales organization to ensure its results and effectiveness.
- Relevant Marketing Honours Qualification or Degree.
- 7-9 year of experience in FMCG or Agency.
- Strong Marketing experience with proven experience in brand building, meeting consumer needs, delivering successful communication programs, innovation launches and brand activations.
- Insight demonstrable use of consumer, customer and business insights to shape strategic business and brand plans.
- Creativity bring ideas that generate talkability and impact beyond the paid media invested.
- Lead X-agency teams Ability to brief, manage and plan communications plans through to execution
- Analytical skills create robust analysis and meaningful insights to drive actions and highlight opportunitieS.
- Strong Leadership experience of managing & coaching multiple direct reports and the ability to inspire various stakeholders.
