Head of Marketing, Smart-Cash PSB at Airtel Nigeria

Airtel Nigeria (Airtel Networks Limited) is a leading telecommunications services provider in Nigeria headquartered in Lagos, the commercial nerve-centre of Nigeria. The telco ranks amongst the top four mobile service providers in terms of subscribers with a customer base of more than 39.8 million. The company's product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce and enterprise services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Marketing, Smart-Cash PSB

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full time

Job Description

• Responsible for conceiving, developing and deploying the country-level marketing strategy for delivering revenue numbers and for ensuring a strong and well-positioned product portfolio.
• Deliver nationwide marketing activities and ensure acquisition, retention and churn outputs stimulate usage, increase brand and top-of-mind awareness within the boundaries of the Marketing budget.

Responsibilities
Define and drive sales & marketing strategy for the country:

• Develop sales & marketing strategy for the country to ensure superior visibility and superior customer intimacy of the brand compared to competition, in conjunction with Nigeria Chief Operating Officer and Group Chief Marketing Officer.
• Review market research to determine opportunities that exist and ways to capitalize on them.
• Develop and implement acquisition strategies for the various sales verticals across Retail and Corporate businesses which will ensure an increase in share of customers.
• Define sales & marketing strategies/plans and ensure that these are consistent with overall goals and objectives.
• Develop and lead the country’s sales & marketing activities and policies.

Improve Smart-cash CMS in the Nigerian Market:

• Prevent churn of existing customer base - Actively manage Churn to less than 3% and deliver customer retention programs that will ensure increase in customer net additions.
• Constantly monitor all indices to ensure performance against set target while ensuring remedial action for all under-performing initiatives.

Improve Smart-cash relative position in the marketplace (Revenue Market Share):

• Monitor relative performance of Smart cash against its competitors on a periodic basis using RMS data.
• Create a segmented strategy for customer acquisition and prepare a roadmap for implementing the same.
• Derive synergies across customer segments for overall revenue enhancement – drive cross-pollination across several sales channels and customer segments.
• Devise strategy to gain higher share of incremental RMS to improve Company’s overall RMS.
• Identify opportunities and develop roadmap for maximizing revenue from all revenue streams – voice, roaming, infotainment, mCommerce etc.

Sustain dominant Brand Affinity and TOMA in the operation:

• Develop and implement a Marketing Communication strategy that will ensure superior visibility and superior customer intimacy of the Brand compared to competition in the operation.

Stimulate an increase in Minutes of Use per user across the Network:

• Develop strategies that will stimulate incremental minutes of use for customers on the network as this will directly impact revenues, by ensuring customer loyalty, superior network quality and coverage and value delivering offerings.

Enhance current revenue streams and develop additional revenue streams though innovative product development, launch, and image management:

• Identify unarticulated customer needs and trends and develop product briefs.
• Lead marketing efforts to enable increased usage of new and innovative products in the country.
• Increase share of revenue from data services through aggressive rollout of 3G and EDGE service in Nigeria.
• Develop an Enterprise solutions strategy that will deliver incremental revenues from corporate clients with emphasis on data, provision of network access for multiple locations, and bespoke voice solutions.
• Lead country-level customer and marketing research, evaluate industry/ market trends and competition strategies and recommend product positioning and pricing.
• Explore and develop additional revenue streams from existing infrastructure base, using innovative products & services e.g. data, E1 access, etc.

Ensure optimal spend vis-à-vis budget and monitor performance against plan:

• Keep Net Acquisition Costs and others within budget by ensuring effective cost innovation in all areas of Marketing.
• Detailed market analysis & insights of customers by geography, demography, psychography, benefits sought & usage levels.
• Lead the production of regular dashboard reports and distribute to executive management with analysis of major trends or issues.
• Formulate, monitor and control for effective and efficient deployment of sales & marketing budget within the country.
• Evaluate, forecast and measure performance against plans.

Creation of highly effective Team:

• To ensure the functions objectives are delivered through a highly motivated and engaged team. Giving regular feedback and reviews to each team member as this plays a critical role in ensuring employees are engaged and deliver results, leading to lower attrition of people, hence protecting talent.
• Develop a bench strength of future leaders through coaching, mentoring and guidance.

Required Skills:

• Strong people skills- building collaborative relationships and empowering and developing people.
• Risk taking appetite.
• Ability to network with global players.
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills.
• Entrepreneurial Ability.
• Business and Commercial acumen.
• Excellent understanding of corporate governance standards.
• Should thrive in challenging situations.

Educational Qualifications & Experience
Must have:

• At least twelve (12) years working experience with seven (7) years or more in a senior management role in Fintech, Financial Services, Telco, FMCG etc., and at least (five)5 years in Telecoms Marketing.
• Certifications or additional qualifications in Advertising, Business Administration, communications and management will be an added advantage.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing and Management or like discipline.
• An MBA with focus on Marketing.

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