Sales Careers – Innovations & Commercialization Manager at Diageo

Organization: Diageo
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Level: Grade 5



About EABL: 
EABL operates within a multi cultural, multi-national, multi currency
environment. EABL comprises five business units: KBL, EAML, CGI, SBL and UBL.
UBL is further categorised into Demand and Supply. The Supply business is
involved in production of beer and spirits. The Demand business is involved in
marketing and pushing the product to consumers.
The Innovation Department is seen as the key driver in providing aggressive
top-line growth and increasing bottom-line results. The overall goal of
innovation is to assist EABL’s growth into new markets, improve quality, extend
EABL’s product range, improve production processes and make cost savings.

Market Complexity:
A high degree of ambiguity, improvement and originality is expected from this
role to create possibilities as well as finding solutions are critical
capabilities.

Job Summary: The Marketing Innovations Manager has ultimate responsibility
for the marketing of core portfolio of brands. He / She will also support the
development and execution of the company’s strategic innovation program for
East Africa (Key Pillar for Growth) in order to achieve our mission.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Assist in formulating and developing the
    overall beer, beer format and CSD
  • Innovation Strategy and Pipeline to achieve
    long term objectives.
  • Support the creation of a centre of
    project management excellence
  • Identifying new trademarks and ensures the
    company registers them.
  • Aggressively identify export innovations
    and adaptations to ensure market entry and sales growth.
  • Formulate and ensure implementation of
    market research programme to assess innovations and future opportunities.
  • In conjunction with Brand teams and Supply
    develop a strategy for culling brands/SKU’s that are uneconomical to the company.
  • Work pro-actively and effectively in
    partnership with the Sales functions.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
  • The prospective applicant should be a Graduate
    with senior management experience of at least three 3 years in Sales/
    Marketing /Innovation or New Business Development at a FMCG company.
  • Experience in a market other than home
    environment
  • Post Graduate qualification an added
    advantage
  • Minimum of 5 years marketing experience in
    a FMCG environment.
    2 years people management experience.
  • Experienced in Marketing management as
    well as development and execution of advertising strategies.
  • Experience in price and margin management.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified candidates should visit the web link below and
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the job requirements

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