Brand Manager Job Vacancy in Lagos at Redwood Academy

Company Profile
Redwood Academy seeks to recruit for its client, a global family and personal care brand company based in Dallas and just moved into West Africa is looking for a Snr. Brand Manager.

Redwood Academy is a specialized Training and Development service provider with expertise in recruitment and manpower planning. Our core specialty is in the functional business area of sales and marketing human capital development.

Title: Snr. Brand Manager

Location: Any City, NG
Reports to: Regional Marketing Director

Summary

• To manage the marketing activities of assigned Products via great brand communications based on strong insights; consumer led innovations and consumer engagement to ensure strong brand equities with volume and value share growth; strong category sales and overall profit growth

What you will be doing for us

• Conceptualizes and develops strategic brand equity building effort priorities and annual category plans.
• Follows through Implementations of the category plans to ensure attainment of business objectives.
• Works with sales management team to ensure realization of sales, distribution and profit objectives of the category
• Identifies the category's market research needs; working with the Regional Research Manager, develops a market research plan for categories. These researches generate a bank of consumer & customer insight for brand activities.
• Manages advertising agency to ensure great advertising ideas are brought to bear on the brands.
• Manages Marketing Research Agencies for business.
• Manages the media agency to ensure strategic, efficient and effective media is bought.
• Manages PR and Event Management Agencies to generate goodwill for assigned brands among the target audience.
• Initiates, manages & roll out key projects within category or as advised by management
• Charts plans on how to ensure that company products are ahead of the competition.
• With the sales team, come up with exciting and compelling Sales promotions & activations that help in entrenching our brands and drive business objectives.
• Manages demand forecast for assigned brands.
• Facilitates a working environment that fosters teamwork; trains and coaches Brand Managers
• Ensures strategic, efficient and effective management of brand A & P to achieve annual objectives.
• d maintain good customer relations to achieve their loyalty and prompt  settlement of their invoices.

What we require from you

• Good first degree in Health sciences /commerce and post graduate degree MBA.
• A minimum of 8 years of managing brands, 2 years managing brand team.
• Proficiency in computer operations especially excel spreadsheets and power point.
• Sound Communication skills
• Persuasive and Negotiation skills
• Organizational skills
• Good Analytical skills
• Good Project Management skills
• A good team player
• Ability to influence others.
• Ability to enable and drive change to achieve excellence.
  • Advertising Development.
  • Media planning
  • Marketing Research.
  • Promotional activities.
  • New product development
  • Product launches and relaunches.




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Deadline
23rd October, 2013

How to Apply
All qualified candidates should forward their electronic resumes to: recruitment@redwood-consulting.com with the Title "Snr. Brand Manager"