Vacancy At Ericsson

Director of Marketing-00109067  

Description

Director of Marketing

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Purpose

The Director of Marketing is responsible for the marketing function in sub-Saharan Africa in line with the Group marketing strategy and Regional Growth plan.

Responsibility and authority

Role

• To oversee the Marketing function in the Region
• Develop and implement marketing plan to drive the global marketing strategy as well as Regional growth plan.
• Drive alignment with the various Units in the Region, GF and Business Units.
• Drive market category growth and facilitate leads generation
• Drive brand, category, experience and product marketing in alignment with the EP, CUs and Communication.
• Drive all the marketing customer engagement and manage single point of contact for the CUs

Authority

• Management of responsibilities in accordance with directives from GF Marketing. Leads the development and implementation of the Regional Marketing plan.

Delegation of responsibility

• Responsibility delegation is driven by regional directives or the Head of Strategy and Marketing.

Interface, contacts and co-operation

• Regional LT
• Market and industry players (i.e. new business actors, key influencers)
• Regional Industry analysts
• Regional Management Team     
• Customer Units
• Group Functions
• Engagement Practices
• Customers

Qualifications

Requirements

Master’s degree in related fields (MBA, MSc or similar).

Experience

• Significant experience (> 10 years) relevant for driving marketing strategy development and execution, and business development across a region
• Significant telecom industry experience and experience in areas with regional growth potential. Experience in related industries such as media, ICT and consumer electronics is desirable.
• Proven and solid general management background with strong business acumen and experience in senior positions in an international environment
• Demonstrated background of delivering of marketing interventions that created business impact.

Skills and Competence:

• Ability to develop and drive change to execute on business objectives.
• Strong leadership and teambuilding skills with proven capability to motivate and develop a team to success.
• Possess a sound business sense and a strong ability to think strategically.
• Proven ability to drive change, strategy execution and inspire innovative strategic and marketing initiatives.
• Excellent communication and value argumentation skills, both verbal and written. Ability to build trust in external engagements.
• Strong planning, delivery and organizational skills
• Self-motivated, resourceful and result-oriented.
• Strong social and interpersonal skills.

Job

 Marketing

Primary Location

 NG-Lagos-Lagos