Vacancies: Senior Marketing Manager (Product Development), Senior Marketing Manager Promotions
Globalcom Limited is a leading privately owned multinational telecommunications company with Headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria. It is Nigeria’s Second National Operator with license covering GSM, Fixed, Broadband, Gateway services and an international high capacity submarine cable business, known as Glo 1. Globacom Limited is Africa’s fastest growing telecommunications company with over twenty-five million GSM subscribers in Nigeria, the Republic of Benin and Ghana. It has acquired license for Glo 1 in other West African countries.
In its quest to further strengthen operations and consolidate its position as a market leader, the Company desires to recruit highly competent, talented and self-motivated individuals to fill the following senior positions:
Attractive and internationally competitive remuneration packages, a pleasant working environment with good perquisites and challenging career prospects await the successful candidates.
Position: Senior Marketing Manager, Product Development: (Ref No: GLSMP 002)
Specific responsibilities will include but not limited to:
- Developing and delivering effective product and market entry strategies in line with the Company’s corporate objectives.
- Building and ensuring timely launch of new products to capture and consolidate on considerable market share in GSM/Broadband/Gateway.
- Using various national and international benchmarking processes to identify areas of weakness of the competition.
- Developing product roadmaps to differentiate products and create brand pull.
- Managing products and services according to the various stages of the product lifecycle and devising various strategies to which the products could be enhanced.
- Adding new features to the existing products to enhance consumer experience.
Qualifications and Skills:
- Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or any other relevant field.
- A Post Graduate degree in Business Management, Engineering, or any other relevant field will be an added advantage.
- Strong strategic orientation, leadership and interpersonal skills.
- Results-oriented and good project management skills.
Experience:
- Minimum of ten (10) years cognate experience in Product Development, preferably from the FMCG or telecommunications industry, or from a blue chip company, five (5) of which must have been spent in a management role.
- Experience in working with cross functional teams, ability to carry them along in driving marketing initiatives.
- Exposure to the use of various analytical tools.
Position: Senior Marketing Manager Promotions (Ref. No: GLSMP 003 )
Specific responsibilities will include but not limited to:
- Leading cross-functional and/or cross-channel teams to develop integrated launch programs, product-related marketing opportunities, or marketing promotions from conceptualization through commercialization and launch, including product and packaging.
- Flawlessly initiating, implementing and executing marketing strategies to support business objectives.
- Building strong relationships with relevant parties to ensure marketing message consistency and adherence to brand objectives.
- Applying consumer insights and market research to gain understanding of consumers, environment and channel needs for the Company’s products and determining new marketing and product opportunities.
- Monitoring the domestic and global marketplace for product innovations, competitors, lifestyle trends and emerging technologies.
Qualifications and Skills:
- Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing Engineering, or any other relevant field.
- A Post Graduate degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or any other relevant field with a marketing emphasis will be an added advantage.
- Strong strategic orientation, leadership and interpersonal skills.
- Critical-thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Results-oriented and good project management skills.
- Sound knowledge of existing marketing and promotional channels in local and international markets.
- Good knowledge of MS office applications.
Experience:
- Minimum of fifteen (15) years cognate experience in Marketing Promotions, preferably from the FMCG or telecommunications industry, or from a blue chip company, five (5) of which must have been spent in a management role.
- Experience in working with cross functional teams and ability to carry them along in driving marketing initiatives.
Method of Application:
To apply, please quote the corresponding reference number as the subject of your e-mail and e-mail your Curriculum Vitae (prepared as a Microsoft Word document and saved with your full names, detailing contact telephone numbers address and scanned passport photograph) to us at: recruitment@gloworld.com
Send your Curriculum Vita on or before 15th March 2012.
All applications will be treated in confidence and only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
