Jobs at Saint-Gobain

Job Purpose

• To position commercial strategies and tactics, to ensure commercial objectives are achieved, within the relevant product portfolio in support of the company’s overall mission and objectives. Inspire and lead innovations within Gyproc in order to enable Gyproc to realise its commercial contribution and product leadership ambition.

Key responsibilities : 

• Review and understand the historical context of the product life cycles for the product portfolio to understand and reconcile the current product performance and develop future product strategy within a system perspective.
•  Work closely with marketing services and business development manager(s) to ensure relevant product offerings are made available or discontinued where appropriate.
• Analysis of market trends, driving factors and requirements to ensure growth and maximize commercial performance. 
• Development of product marketing and communication plans in line with sector strategy. Ensure consistent alignment to strategy from communication to development of literature, tools and products/solutions delivered.
• Conduct periodic reviews of the current product portfolio with recommendations to the business to ensure the product portfolio is kept efficient, profitable and relevant to support penetration into key sectors. 
• Keep abreast and develop market and technical acumen in order to achieve balanced understanding of technical and commercial market requirements.\Participation in relevant industry organisations in order to remain ahead of industry trends and solutions. 
• Leading role in product related projects, launches, testing of new solutions and management of outputs and relationships within cross functional teams in order to champion innovations within our product portfolio. 
• Engagement with key customers/other stakeholders and training of customer facing staff to ensure continued understanding of value proposition and penetration.
• New product developments to align with annual and multi-year sector plans. Assessment of current and future market trends to identify future market opportunities and threats through changes in the economic, technological and regulatory environment, customer base, distribution channels, and competitor activity.
• Crafts the value proposition and narrative for the target product portfolios so as to confirm the benefits of choosing Gyproc and develop solutions to close the market gaps.
• Work closely with Marketing Services to ensure that costs are managed effectively in the production of marketing campaigns, literature and other media. 
• Collation and forecasting of sales statistics, cost data, profitability, customer and supplier activity to provide statistical information on product performance. Monitor and measure sales and margin achievement versus target.
• Develop and monitor competitor database, activity, commercial and technical advantage and recommendations in anticipation of market activity

   Qualifications required:

• Relevant Commercial Degree or equivalent.
• Postgraduate degree or MBA qualification would be an advantange       
  
   

   Knowledge and Skills . 

• Minimum 3 years’ experience at middle management level
• Input to strategy formulation, planning and execution.
• Skill in examining and re-engineering operations and procedures.
• Ability to communicate and interact at all levels of the organisation.
• Ability to manage several projects.
• Ability to develop financial plans.
• Ability to analyze and interpret financial data.
• Exceptional professional written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Risk management, finance, marketing and business acumen

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Job Purpose

• To position commercial strategies and tactics, to ensure commercial objectives are achieved, within the relevant product portfolio in support of the company’s overall mission and objectives. Inspire and lead innovations within Gyproc in order to enable Gyproc to realise its commercial contribution and product leadership ambition.

Key responsibilities : 

 Brand

• With the Head of Marketing,  formulate and implement a comprehensive brand plan in line with commercial and trade calendar and overall communication strategies.
• Support development and coordinate product launches, customer events and brand events.
• Continuously monitor industry trends and propose new ideas to support SG SSA brand/s.
• Co-ordinate the annual update of the SG SSA pricing catalogue.
• Co-ordinate SG SSA technical literature creation and updates.

 
Communication

• Plan, develop, implement and measure SG SSA marketing, communications and public relations activities, both internal and external, delivering measurable projects and campaigns on time, within budget and to a consistently high quality.
• To develop and implement specific collateral to support sales, marketing, brand development, communications and public relations activities.
• To work collaboratively with a diverse staff team to create and manage cross organisational, integrated marketing communication plans.
• Continuously measure the effectiveness of all marketing and communications campaigns against ROI and specific KPI’s and make changes where appropriate.
• To provide writing and editing support for outbound client communication including promotional materials, reports, emails and newsletters to ensure marketing effectiveness and adherence to brand guidelines. 

Leadership:

• Lead, coach and develop your direct reports in order to increase their capability, commitment, drive and performance output so that the organization reaches its objectives, executes its strategies and progresses towards its vision. In addition, as a means of achieving the aforementioned, create an environment built on trust, open and transparent communication, innovation and pro-active behaviours.
• Ensure adherence to Quality, Environmental Health and Safety requirements of the Organization

 
Finance:

• Accountable for input cost control and budget within the SG SSA Marketing Division
• Accountable for the meeting and exceeding of operational performance and financial targets as set by the Techno Marketing Director.

Social

• Champion assigned social upliftment programmes within SG SSA Marketing

Corporate Governance

• Accountable for ensuring rigorous Corporate Governance aligned to the SGCP Group standard
• Accountable for Risk management in the SG SSA Marketing Division

 
All such duties and/or activities assigned by management/board as and when required.
                                           
Qualifications required:

• Relevant Bdegree in Marketing
• Postgraduate Degree in Marketing or Business Administration would be an advantage

   Knowledge and Skills . 

• Minimum 5 years’ demonstrable experience, ideally but not limited, experience within industrial/ manufacturing environment.
• Proven success in Marketing, new business and commercial ability
• Client management skills
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines in a rapidly changing environment
• Advanced Computer Literacy
• Highly organised and analytical and inquisitive, with excellent attention to detail
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, writing skills a must
• Action orientated and ability to multi-task
• Ability to develop good working relationships internally and externally
• Highly creative and full of ideas
• Quick thinking and adaptable