SABMiller Graduate recruitment in Lagos and Port Harcourt, July 2015
SABMiller is one of the world's leading brewers with more than 200 beer brands and some 70,000 employees in over 75 countries. We also have growing businesses in soft drinks and we are one of the world's largest bottlers of Coca-Cola products.
SABmiller Plc has built an over 100million dollars beer brewery at Onitsha, it represents the highest foreign direct investment in Nigeria in recent times.
We are currently recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Assistant Brand Manager
Location: Lagos - Ikoyi
Job Description
- Assist with generating insights for specific brands
- Work with managers to prepare and reconcile budgets for brand plans and manage day-to-day brand financials
- Coordinate brand suppliers
- Assess programmes and provide input for improvement
- Contribute to the development of brand strategies
- Participate in the delivery of projects
- Track brand equities via the scorecard
- Contribute situation and brand performance analyses to help in the identification of brand opportunities
- Work alongside Sales to help develop excellent activations
Requirements
Qualifications / Experience & Skills Required:
- B. Degree in a Commercial field or Marketing
- Minimum 2 years' experience in a Brand Marketing or Sales role
- Excellent Computer Skills
- Excellent communication skills (oral and written)
Key Competencies and Attributes:
- Ability to take a broad business perspective
- Self-starter
- Good interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication
Salary
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Job Title: Marketing Manager
Location: Lagos - Ikoyi
Job Description
- Conduct opportunity assessment
- Deliver brand positioning and portfolio strategy
- Manage brand strategy and activity planning
- Lead innovation
- Deliver commercial value
- Manage activation development and execution
Requirements
Qualifications / Experience & Skills Required:
- B. Degree in a commercial field (Economics, business management, etc.)
- Strong understanding of marketing strategy, planning issues, budgeting and priority setting
- At least 8 years working experience the last 3 at middle management level in a FMCG Sector and preferably as a Brands Manager.
- A keen understanding of the dynamics of the market place.
Key Competencies and Attributes:
- Must possess strong leadership qualities and vision
- A creative thinker and possess initiative
- Capable of handling complex situations and a lot of pressure
- Good negotiator with good interpersonal skills
- Comprehensive knowledge of agency processes.
- Good computer and financial management competence.
- Strategic insight essential. Ability to take research, consumer insight evidence and develop, plan and implement strategic “step change”.
- Conceptual skills essential. Ability to think long-term and pull information together to make it bigger than “the whole” i.e. Portfolio planning, NPD output, country planning, macro interpretation, brand planning and implementation.
- Ability to think entrepreneurially, act on own initiative and make things happen.
Remuneration
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Job Title: Talent Manager
Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
Job Type: Permanent
Work Level: Senior Management
Job Descriptions
- Define and agree the talent strategy in alignment with the regional talent priorities
- Act as the country lead and strategic advisor to EXCOM and senior business stakeholders on Talent Strategies and objectives
- Work with senior leadership to identify cover for EXCOM and critical roles, and develop succession plans
- Drive the talent elements of Our People Way while ensuring focus on implementing and anchoring the global standards
- Drive Strategic Workforce planning
- Lead the recruitment of management positions and conduct pre-screening interviews where appropriate
- Build Talent Acquisition capability
- Own the process to maintain and nurture the talent pipeline
- Define the approach to external pipeline management based on business needs
- Provide market insights to ensure appropriate inclusion in strategic talent planning activities
- Prepare annual resourcing priorities
- Define the recruitment focus areas for the country, in line with regional talent acquisition objectives, such as internal versus external appointments, diversity, talent mix
- Ensure that appropriate Talent Acquisition processes are in place
- Monitor key Talent Acquisition standards, via regionally-identified targets/metrics using insights from Talent Acquisition KPIs to inform local strategies and priorities
- Increase the capability of the Human Resources Team to drive Competency-Based Interviewing standards
- Work with HR Teams to identify risks in the People Balance Sheet and develop plans to mitigate them
- Develop data analytics for the development of insights
- Develop and implement a long term regional graduate strategy
- Drive positive talent outcomes, through ensuring the development of key talent
- Work with Regional Talent Manager to ensure a compelling Employment Value Proposition
- Ensure that the investment in psychometric assessments is fully leveraged in the business and supports business strategic outcomes
- Identify and interpret the business impacts of talent insights; convert insights into actions that support the strategic agenda of the business and delivers against the plan
Knowledge, Experience and Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in the Humanities or Business Studies
- Seasoned HR Practitioner/Resourcing Practitioner with a minimum of 5 years in managing talent resourcing at management level
- Experience in research/talent pipe-lining
- Demonstrated strength in direct sourcing
- In-depth and up-to-date specialist knowledge of psychometric assessments
- A deep understanding of and experience of best in class talent management practices
- Thorough knowledge and experience of best practices in the field of organisational career development
- Proven experience and ability to create a presence in the business, consulting, and applying advocacy skills to position Talent Management as a strategic business partner
- Excellent computer skills
Roles and Attributes
- Excellent leadership qualities with the ability to deliver results within a fast paced environment.
- Ability to manage complexity and work independently
- Strategic thinker with strong commercial competencies
- Good communication skills and ability to communicate at the highest level and build internal and external relationships quickly.
- Clear and confident verbal communicator with ability to represent the organisation to external audiences
- Strong knowledge of the use of social media in resourcing for brand building
- Superior analytical skills
- The ability to be diplomatic, persuasive and influential, with senior stakeholders
- Experience in coaching is desirable
- Demonstrated problem solving skills; ability to recognise critical problems and opportunities
- Understanding of when to shift from analysis to action
- Commercial aptitude
- Potential and ambition to progress to more senior roles within the organisation
- Experience in the administration, interpretation and feedback of a range of psychometric assessment tools, including personality and cognitive tools (16PF, CPI and WAIS) will be a strongly advantage
Remuneration
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Job Title: Events Manager
Location: Rivers - Port Harcourt
Job Type: Permanent
Work Level: Management
Descriptions
- Develop a national events strategy
- Define event classifications with criteria to be used
- Develop a comprehensive annual schedule of key events
- Plan, cost & implement activation to agreed standards
- Handle ad-hoc opportunities based on their merits
- Manage events to agreed budgets
- Develop action plans according regional needs
- Implement the regional activities and events calendar
- Efficient usage of events kits, other materials and investments is monitored
- Coordinate and supervise resources (people, equipment etc.)
- Develop relationships with partners and co-organizers
- Manage and control events equipment
- Compile weekly special events reports for Sales managers
Qualifications / Experience & Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in a Commercial field
- 5 years' experience in FMCG/Beer in Sales, Promotions or Eventing
- Sound theoretical and practical knowledge of the marketing mix for FMCG
- Good communication skills
- Project Management Skills
Key Competencies And Attributes
- Willingness to work during weekends and late hours
- Ability to handle pressure
- Good interpersonal skills
Remuneration
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Job Title: Brand Manager
Location: Lagos - Ikoyi
Job Description
- Develop and implement integrated marketing and brand plans, integrating relevant insights and ensuring buy-in/support and commitment to the plans across the relevant market.
- Ensure alignment for brand with market/regional priorities
- Manage the budget for the brand within plan periods to deliver business goals.
- Manage multiple internal and external stakeholders (including agencies) effectively, exerting influence where necessary to promote brand success.
Qualifications / Experience & Skills Required
- B. Degree in a commercial field
- 5 years’ experience in FMCG/Beer market environment in the Marketing field
- Sound theoretical and practical knowledge of the marketing mix for FMCG
- Practical experience managing a brand through 2 – 3 business cycles
- Above average computer literacy and ability to manipulate data
- Good communication skills
- Presentation skills
Key Competencies and Attributes:
- Applying insights with rigour
- Brand positioning and creative platform
- Integrated activity planning
- Tracking, analysis and renovation
- Activation and execution
- Ability to take a broad business perspective
- Managing complexity
Remuneration
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Job Title: Marketing Services Manager
Location: Lagos - Ikoyi
Job Description
- Manage and develop marketing information systems that ultimately deliver actionable consumer insights to drive marketing decision making for both the function and BUs
- Maintain and update on a regular basis key trend information relating to sales, brand health, country econometrics and trade audits
- Manage all research projects for Nigeria with accountability for methodology, agency management and delivery of insights
- Support the Supply Chain function and the planning process by coordinating the demand planning inputs
- Provide input regarding channel and brand performance in terms of what the gaps and opportunities are
- Assist in the development of commercially integrated Brand and Channel Strategy
- Provide tools to support the plans for activity development, planning and communication
Qualifications / Experience & Skills Required
- B. Degree in a commercial field (Economics, business management, etc.)
- 5 years’ experience in FMCG/Beer market or research industry with experience in a research function
- Knowledge of consumer and market research techniques such as attitude and usage studies, retail audits and segmentation
- Experience and success in managing large projects
- Strong understanding of marketing strategy, planning issues, budgeting and priority setting
Key Competencies and Attributes:
- Excellent statistical skills and ability to drive statistical projects to completion
- Strong project management skills
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills
- Innovative, critical thinker
- Strong communication skills
Remuneration
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