National Trade Marketing: PMO - Sandton at The South African Breweries (SAB)

The key purpose of this role is to act as a project manager that brings together all sales channels. Projects will vary, but will always be centered around optimizing the business and  monetizing opportunities. This will be coupled with taking the national strategy and synthesizing this into channels.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development of the national trade marketing department, and bring improved synergies between sales and marketing
• Driving the business strategy through projects and initiatives
• Must be a self starter that sees projects through from concept to launch
• Setting up business cases for key ideas (must have financial acumen)
• Setting up cross functional task teams to solve business problems
• Competitor analysis, including but not limited to analyzing market share, gap draught, SI data – and using this data to setup improvement projects
• Tracking and reporting on key initiatives and tying this back to the strategic objectives
• Helping to “sell” the Trade Marketing story to the business at large to gain acceptance of key projects
• Work with the channel managers to develop a project pipe-line that delivers value to the business
• Manage agenda’s for CLT meeting to ensure that priorities are met
• Regular update into the local BU leadership team, to Zone Mancom and to Global
• Tracking STI targets for the national trade marketing team
• Is the "Ambassador" of the BU, Zone & GHQ and connect local team with Zone or Global people when needed

Profile:

• Relevant Commerce or Engineering Degree
• At least 5 years sales or trade marketing experience
• Commercial or financial acumen is key experience
• Natural cross-functional leader that acts in the interest of the overall business and  with the ability to get the best out of non direct reports
• A self-starter with strong self-management
• Strong problem solving skills
• Able to influence across functional teams
• Strong collaboration skills
• A bias for action with a high degree of attention to detail with all activities
• Ability to work across functions in a matrix style of management in a way that does  not compromise key outcomes
• Very strong negotiation skills with a high degree of commercial acumen
• Strong project management and coordination skills