Marketing Manager - Meyerton at Unique Personnel

Duties & Responsibilities:

Strategic Alignment:

• Participates in development of the company’s business strategy and five year plan as part of company’s executive management team.
• Develops and implements a marketing strategy in support of the company's business strategy to maximise revenues and profits of the company.
• Develops and implements a five year marketing plan to ensure achievement of the marketing strategy

Marketing and Brand Management:

• Sets pricing strategy based on supply and demand factors, product manufacturing costs and value-in-use to customer and ensuring profitable margins for the company.
• Sets product specifications in collaboration with relevant production personnel.
• Ensures competent technical support to customers.
• Forecasts product demand based on market segmentation and competitor analysis.
• Monitors market positioning globally by constantly reviewing the long term sustainability of key accounts in view of changing distribution conditions and/or market factors affecting profitability.
• Creates awareness of, and promotes the company's brand in the relevant market and media, by:
• advertising and running campaigns in publications for the mining and scrap metal recycling industries
• constantly updating the company website
• exhibiting at international conferences
• arranging/hosting/sponsoring symposia and conferences for customers

Sales And Distribution:

• Ensures achievement of sales targets through monitoring of pricing, sales volumes and through on-going management of distribution costs.
• Negotiates Supply Contracts with key customers to define prices, duration and basic terms and conditions and legal protection of company interests.
• Ensures effective product distribution globally, by:
• Monitoring negotiations with shipping lines, agencies and other logistics service providers
• Identifying suitable partners as sales agents in other countries and by managing these relationships on an on-going basis.
• Obtains customer feedback on an on-going basis, including customer visits, surveys, and feedback from the website to recommend appropriate action

People Management:

• Ensures that staff are trained and skilled to apply expertise optimally.
• Ensures that the working environment contributes to improving staff morale and increasing productivity

Cost Management:

• Compiles/manages departmental budget.

Inherent Requirements    
Qualifications, Competencies & Experience:

• Engineering (ideally Metallurgical / Chemical) plus Commercial/Marketing qualification.
• Minimum 8 years marketing experience in a metallurgical business-to-business, global environment, with experience in commodity markets.
• Sound knowledge of, and exposure to, international trading