Marketer - Trade Marketer.Commercial Operations SA

Operational Coordination and Marketing action plans alignment and implementation

• Implement sales and service campaigns in alignment to branded trade marketing strategy, including mall promotions

• Implement Regional planning in terms of marketing activities for the trade

• Determine what activities take place in the region that generate sell through of product

• Manage OEM model and OEM relations at Head Office

• Ensure distribution of product

• Review and implement MTN and OEM incentives in the trade environment.

• Co-ordinate the execution of the marketing action plans across branded channel

• Co-ordinate and use of the production POS material within the channel with external suppliers

• Co-ordinate the use of all new POS and marketing elements with the region

• To give feedback on regional promotion and incentive programmers to improve business.

• Arrange and co-ordinate all regional activities, events, sponsorships within the Channel via BRID

• Co-ordinate the dissemination of communication to region.

• Make inputs with regard to the long term implications of action plans from a broad perspective (strategy of Branded Trade Marketing and BRID)

• Drive best practice, continuous improvement and innovation at process and procedure level and ensure innovation to improve best practice

• Identify and explore innovative ways to enhance the consumer channel performance and marketing mix

• Understand, and collate innovate ways, and local requirements and action plans for the different regions in relation to the execution and implementation of the strategy and also liaise with the approved stake holders.

• Co-ordinate the Implementation of BTL projects and elements

• Coordination of production of BTL elements

• Implementation of the BTL projects approved and execution of BTL elements

• Ensure compliance of strategy to BRID and escalate non compliance
• Co-ordinate the execution of sales via marketing activities at a regional level.

Relationship building and maintenance

• Build and maintain relationships with all stake holders, including suppliers, stores, shopping malls and community leaders and representatives

• Follow up on and respond to all queries

• Maintain good communication and relationships with BRID

Report Generation

• Generate Weekly & Monthly reports pre & post promotions, as required.

Budget Management

Contribute to the forecast and offer input into the budget for the unit

• Manage and optimise the budget, ensuring all expenditure is in line with the agreed budget

• Identify areas where money is lost and seek ways to reduce expenditure

• Identify and communicate opportunities to generate additional revenue

Customer Satisfaction

• Establish and build relationships with all relevant stakeholders

• Align service delivery to local market segments

• Understand customer needs and develop and fine-tune delivery accordingly

• Ensure customer needs and requirements are satisfied through appropriate systems, processes and procedures

• Put contingency plans in place to prevent delays and enhance the customer experience

• Adopt a proactive approach to prevent problems from arising in the future

• Initiate change to continually improve all aspects of service delivery

• Drive continuous improvement as an important element of service delivery

• Deliver measurable results

Education:

• Post matric qualification in marketing communications or similar relevant qualification

• Project planning diploma, or similar qualification or proven experience

  Experience:

• At least 3 years of Industry experience

• Experience in the execution of marketing and promotions

• Experience in Project management

• Experience of Informal Markets

• Market Insight