Chief Marketing Officer Job In a Leading Insurance Firm

PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) - Our client is a leading life insurance firm in Nigeria, that is seeking to recruit for qualified candidates to support the achievement of its objectives, to fill the position below:     Job Title: Chief Marketing Officer Reference Number: 130-PEO00858 Location: Lagos Department: People & Change Nigeria Job type: Permanent Reports to: MD/CEO Roles & Responsibilities The role holder will be responsible for:

• Aligns the organization’s marketing objectives with the organization’s business strategy through active participation in corporate strategic planning, marketing strategy development, and forecasting, marketing resource planning, and budgeting.
• Accountable for an effective organization’s marketing design; including marketing job roles, channel design and marketing resource deployment.
• Establish learning and development objectives essential to the marketing department’s success, oversee the effective delivery of training and development programs, actively assess the value of training and development investments, as well as monitor learning and development outcomes to ensure high ROI.
• Establish and govern the marketing organization’s performance management system ie establishing guiding marketing organizational principles for managing performance, establishing and prioritizing critical performance measures for all marketing roles; overseeing the equitable allocation of organization objectives across all marketing channels, markets, and ensuring all key marketing teams are held accountable.
• Will be required to meet assigned targets for profitable sales volume, market share, and other key financial performance objectives.
• Lead learning and development initiatives whilst impacting the marketing department, provide stewardship of marketing and marketing management talent through an active and productive partnership with the Human Resources learning and development function.

• 1st Degree in any respective field of study
• Master's Degree (may be added advantage but not necessary)
• Insurance certifications will be added advantage
• Minimum of 10 years' experience in life insurance marketing
• In-depth and broad understanding of the life insurance industry – products, business practices, drivers of success, competitor strengths and weaknesses, etc.
• Be approachable and quality oriented
• Be adept, energetic, self-motivated, persistent and diligent
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and service skills
• Be highly organized and be able to complete multiple tasks, proactively and with initiative
• Well-developed written and oral communication as well as presentation skills
• Be trustworthy and demonstrate professionalism
• Mature, positive attitude and self-confident.
• Have strong marketing, marketing and negotiating skills
• Have effective managerial, leadership skills and networking capabilities
• Be competent with marketing budgets and ability to achieve targets
• Knowledge and understanding of the insurance structure and current business climate and trends preferably in the insurance industry