Manager: Marketing Operations and Planning at Distell

Job description

Preference will be given to affected employees in Marketing and Innovation.

Applications are invited for the above mentioned position in the Marketing Southern Africa division based in Techno Park, Stellenbosch. This person will report to the Marketing Director Southern Africa.

Purpose Statement of Position

Provide relevant marketing services and process insights to support the SA marketing team on delivering their brand and channel objectives.

Key Performance Areas would include, but are not limited to:

• Strategic & Financial Results
• Optimise and influence regional category performance
• Develop and implement integrated media strategies
• Build brand and channel team capability on promotional effectiveness, activity planning processes, media, events & sponsorship
• Optimize marketing business processes impacting on activity planning, systems and procurement support
• Align events and sponsorship objectives to brand, region and portfolio objectives. Seek out partnerships that maximize value
• Operational Results
• Deliver effective marketing operations support to the SA marketing team
• Deliver effective SAP, procurement and merchandising management support to brand, channel and regional teams
• Implement media plans and provide value add to the business
• Deliver effective and integrated activity planning and support MLT with DMOS and Integrated Brand and Channel Plan (IBCP)
• Support brand and channel teams in delivering impactful and commercially successful campaigns with clearly articulated objectives
• Deliver an integrated Events & Sponsorship plan across brand and regions
• Develop and implement integrated media strategies
• Build brand and channel team capability on promotional effectiveness, activity planning processes, media, events & sponsorship
• Customer & Relationship Results
• Develops internal and external relationships and networks with organisational focus to resolve both short term issues and resolve longer term projects/work
• Build effective relations with internal and external work partners to adhere to service level agreements where applicable
• Develop internal and external relationships and networks with organisational focus to resolve both short term issues and resolve longer term projects/work
• Leadership Results
• Lead and pro-actively coach teams around insightfulness
• Demonstrating Distell Corporate Values
• Support and drive Employment Equity within Distell
• Manage Performance and Career Management cycles with team to develop future fit competence
• Clear pattern of self-development and learning to increase expertise and performance
• Innovation & Improvement Results
• Drive continuous improvement for improved brand, people and process performance
• Ensure that promotional effectiveness learnings are disseminated and implemented within brand and
• channel teams
• Optimize and improve systems and work processes to drive productivity and reduce cost
• Ensure that media, digital and consumer engagement learnings are disseminated and implemented within brand and channel teams

The Successful Candidate Must Have The Following Experience/skills

• A relevant and recognised post graduate qualification in Marketing and/or Commerce
• Minimum 10 years’ relevant working experience in FMCG
• Proven experience in Leading/Managing Mangers

Demonstrates Proficiency In The Following Marketing Competencies

• Innovativeness - Fearlessly challenges conventional ways of working and thinking in all aspects of the business - not just product and packaging - in order to inspire continuous improvements that drives business value
• Brand Crafting - Drive inspirational brand strategies and toolkits aligned to portfolio role that enables excellence in execution and business-wide brand custodianship
• Championing Channels - Drive channel strategies based on channel segmentation and integrated performance management in order to enable excellence in execution of portfolio strategy
• Commercial Fluency - Balance long and short term business value generation through the regular application of integrated commercial principles across the whole value chain and P&L levers in order to take ownership and drive course corrective actions with rigour
• Insightfulness - Balancing multiple internal and external sources of information with intuition in order to generate integrated insights that enable the development of compelling narratives that drives business value generation
• Integrated Activity Planning & Execution - The ability to deliver against brand objectives by developing integrated activity plans that brings the brands creative platform to life consistently across multiple touch-points within the consumers decision journey
• Integrated Brand & Channel Planning - Integrates Brand and Channel Strategies into granular plans that deliver against agreed short and long term business objectives
• Portfolio Strategy - Effective and efficient management of the brand portfolio through making tough choices that prioritises resource, increases focus and aligns business strategies to maximize business value

Demonstrates Proficiency In The Following Behavioural Competencies

• Lead Self
• Personal effectiveness
• Resilience
• Model the Organisation values
• Thinking and Innovation
• Business Insights
• Change Adaptability
• Decision making
• Relationship
• Customer centeredness
• Builds relationship and networks
• Engagement skills
• Management
• Planning, Organising and Controlling
• Drive Results
• Implement Action
• Leadership
• Leading change
• Growing teams
• Leading individual growth/performance

Applications To Be Sent To

If you are interested and meet all requirements, kindly log onto Distell’s Careers Page: in order to register and apply on-line.

Reference number: 5765 Closing date: 26th May 2017