Head of Brand at Spur Corporation

Minimum Requirements;   

• Tertiary qualification (3-year degree or higher)
• 10 to 15 years experience Minimum 10 years’
• PG Dip Marketing (advantageous)
• Bcom Marketing or similar
• Business and Financial Acumen
• Curiosity, creating unique solutions and applying an entrepreneurial mindset and ensuring commercial feasibility
• The ability to work with and resolve conflict
• Being a team player and have the ability to closely collaborate and manage interdependence 
• Change leadership mindset
• Be an inclusive leader

Duties and Responsibilities;    

• Marketing experience within the FMCG environment
• Strategy Development, Plan and implementation - Brand and Marketing
• In depth understanding of Finance, budgets, forecasts related to marketing plans and campaigns
• Clear understanding of fiscal discipline (Budget, Finance, Operations etc)
• Project team management
• Agency engagement and media buying methodologies or practices
• Experience working within an executive space
• Brand Campaign development, Implementation and management
• Dealing with Service providers that ensure brand alignment
• Planning and execution of communication and media actions on all channels including above the line
• Leading and Managing a team
• Presenting concepts, strategies and ideas
• Managing innovation processes
• Judging and optimizing creative
• Consumer behaviour trends and insights in the Food and Beverage industry
• Understanding Digital marketing and Social Media – Fundamentals
• Market automation
• Personalized data communication - Market data and trend analyses & customer insights
• Stakeholder management - Media and digital agencies, providers of services, consultants etc
• Understanding CRM and SEO tools like Google Analytics, Google AdWords, HubSpot, WebTrends etc

Key Skills and Competencies;

• Judging and optimising creative Strong communication skills, written and verbal
• Excellent communication skills (Written, verbal and modern marketing platforms) Agility to adapt, learn and execute new technologies
• Negotiating and influencing skills at an executive level
• Time Management and the ability to manage a variety of teams simultaneously
• Strong interpersonal and Stakeholder Relationship Management skills
• Analytical and Problem solving
• Evidence based decision making
• Strategic, Innovative and Organisational thinking
• Directing, Leading and managing teams
• Budget Management and Forecasting skills
• Project and Programme management
• Deciding and initiating action
• Leading and Supervising
• Working with people
• Persuading and Influencing
• Formulating Strategies and Concepts
• Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations