Spirits Marketing Manager(Diageo)-Job vacancies in Uganda

Job Title: Spirits Marketing Manager
Organization: Diageo
Job location: Kampala, Uganda
AutoReqId: 39976BR
About Diageo:
Diageo plc is a British multinational alcoholic beverages company headquartered in London, England. It is the world's largest producer of spirits and a major producer of beer and wine. Diageo's brands include Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker, Baileys and Guinness.It also owns 34% of Moët Hennessy, which owns brands including Moët & Chandon, Veuve Clicquot and  Hennessy. It sells its products in over 180 countries and has offices in around 80 countries.

Job Summary:
The Spirits Marketing Manager will manage and control the consistent profitable growth of the entire spirits portfolio assisted by two brand managers. Aims at guiding the brands’ long term strategy and ensuring yearly plans and objectives are developed, implemented and achieved.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

•     Lead the development of the Spirits Game Plans and ensures brand positioning is clear, consistent & distinctive and delivers the projected financials
•     Develop and drive implementation of an advantaged route to market to unlock spirits distribution and share gain and drive the transformation of spirits in Uganda to match global standards
•     Design and manage initiatives and campaigns to deliver +/> 50% market share in line with Diageo Africa Spirits vision
•     Provide leadership support to the Spirits team by ensuring that the appropriate structures, systems, competencies and values are developed in order to meet and exceed the goals of the Marketing plan.
•     Monitor and control the Spirits budget to ensure attainment of objectives, within allocated spend and maximise return on investment
•     Manage the client/agency relationship and ensure the agency delivers the best possible output on the Spirits brands.
•     The Manager will form part of the UBL Extended Management team and plays a key role in the functional leadership agenda.
•     He / she will have line management responsibility for Brand Managers and Executives and will be required to coach and develop the team, conduct performance reviews, provide regular up-dates, develop brand plans, ad campaigns and game plans, etc.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

•     The prospective applicant should possess a Bachelor of Commerce or related degree or MBA.
•     CIM Diploma
•     At least seven years’ marketing experience in a FMCG environment, with 2 years people management experience.
•     Prior experience in marketing management, development and execution of advertising strategies and price and margin management are required.
•     2 – 3 years Spirits Brand Management experience
•     Proven success with new products launches and marketing
•     Proven at building strong relationships quickly across functions (and ideally geographies)
•     Good at creating Simple Strategies out of Complex contexts
•     Strong coaching capabilities
•     Strong commercial acumen & customer understanding
•     Results oriented
•     Passionate about consumers and great generator of insights
•     Ability to manage multiple priorities, with multiple consumer types, across multiple brands and functions

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