Saro Agro Sciences Limited Job for a Marketing Manager


Saro Agro Sciences Limited is the leader in the Nigerian Crop Protection Industry. We are a wholly indigenous company, committed to the provision of dependable solutions to crop production problems in a distinctive, rewarding and responsible way. We are recruiting to fill the position below: Job Title: Marketing Manager Locations: Lagos and Kaduna Job Summary

  • The Marketing Manager’s role is designed to deliver the above top objectives with a strategic emphasis fashioned to deliver an enhance relationships with refreshed approach and management models. The role will assume a strong leadership role with multi-functional teams including direct reports.
Primary Responsibilities
  • Provide information about the products (4Ps).
  • Gather and analyse market information.
  • Conduct market research.
  • Develop product plan and marketing strategy.
  • Defines and creates added value for the organisation.
  • Coordinate project development.
  • Extension and content building.
  • Collaborate with the sales and technical team to develop strategic partnership activities and implement the execution framework and strategic plan on identified opportunities.
  • Develop and lead a marketing team that will develop and execute new concepts, business models, channels and partners to position business as innovator and leader.
  • Communicate with various media buyers, advertising agencies, printers and other services to help marketing projects come to fruition.
  • Planning and implementing promotional campaigns.
  • Lead all areas of content generation and production across all media platforms.
  • Innovation in service and products
  • Ensure brand messages are consistent.
  • Nurture and enrich all external perceptions of the company and growth of market share.
  • Engage consumers on social media.
Qualifications
  • Minimum of a second Class upper in University degree in any of the Social Sciences, Marketing / Business, Mass communication, Public Relations or other related discipline.
  • Understands customers and the selling process.
  • Is experienced at managing key stakeholders.
  • Required Age:27 - 36 years.
  • Proven and strong Marketing experience (5 years+)
  • Can demonstrate excellent Commercial judgment & acumen.
Our Ideal Candidate:
  • FMCG marketing background
  • Understanding of agriculture will be an added advantage.
  • Should be open-minded.
  • Should have high analytical skills.
  • Should have the ability to project into the future.
  • Must have experience creating marketing plans from scratch.
  • Must have extensive experience of experiential strategy development and implementation working with 3rd party agencies.
  • Must be proven in a multi-channel marketing campaign role.
  • Extensive customer and field experience.
  • Ability to communicate effectively to both technical and business level audiences in a compelling manner.
  • Passionate and Result oriented.
  • Very articulate.
  • Understand the data, and how to present it.
  • Flexible and adaptable.
  • Must be a trend-setter: must keep up to date and have the desire to know more.
  • Must be a team player.
  • Must be a vision creator.
  • Ability to Identify New Business Opportunities.
How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply   Application Deadline  10th January, 2018.