Job Purpose:
The person will be responsible for implementing agreed brand and channel marketing initiatives, campaigns and other programmes to support the achievement of market penetration, brand health, business targets and loyalty both in B2B and B2C sectors.
Accountabilities
- Support to build the annual Lubricants Marketing Plan and monitor budget expenditure and implementation
- Implement the Direct and Indirect marketing programmes for the target sector/channel, covering pricing.
- Drive local adaptation of global brand and sector materials and programmes
- Monitor and analyze data to understand brand, product and channel performance and trends across each sector.
- Provide the relevant insights regarding market trends as inputs in the development and review of business/marketing programs and identification of growth opportunities.
- Continuously monitor business performance across channels and work with the Lubricants Marketing Manager and Sales & Marketing Manager to develop corrective action plans to stay on plan.
- Work closely with the sales teams to support value selling and implementation of B2B Customer Value Propositions (CVP) and Pipeline management initiatives.
- Ensure all marketing activities are evaluated in terms of return on investment, and that a Post Investment Review is carried out post activities.
- Coordinate and support on-ground implementation of agreed marketing initiatives by the distributors.
- Manage third party marketing agency relationships and interfaces to ensure delivery of relevant brand and channel initiatives.