Saturday, November 12, 2016

Career Opportunity at Guinness Nigeria Plc – Diageo Plc, Saturday 12, November 2016

Guinness Nigeria Plc – We are Guinness Nigeria, member of Diageo Plc the world’s leading premium drinks business with an unrivalled collection of beverage alcohol & non-alcohol brands across the Spirits, Wine & Beer categories.


Guinness Nigeria operates a Total Beverage Alcohol (TBA) business and currently operates on 3 sites within Nigeria with a portfolio of products including Stout, Malta, Lager, Spirits and Ready to drink brands. Nigeria is the 2nd largest market for the Guinness Stout brand globally. It is quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and a significant player in the national economy.


We are recruiting to fill the position below:


CONSUMER PLANNER, SPIRITS & RTD


AutoReqId: 53760BR

Function: Marketing

Type of Job: Employee

Reports To: Consumer Connections Manager


CONTEXT/SCOPE

Guinness Nigeria is a focused business unit that delivers significant volume and profit to Diageo (parent company). Consumer planning has a critical role and responsibility of leading the business to make the right strategic and commercially savvy evidence- based decisions, within the ever-changing context of our consumers and customers lives. Over the last three years the Consumer Connections Planning team has been transformed within the Diageo business. This has seen the team move away from research orientation and towards planning, focused on:


Pro-activity

Using research to drive growth

Focused on consumer understanding and insights that is actionable & drives growth

Focused on implications not information

Simplifying & providing clear direction

Financial:


Management and Accountability for implementation of Consumer Planning and Research Budget.

Complexity:


Work across all Nigeria to drive insights that will unlock growth, drive profitability and to deliver market share for Guinness Nigeria Spirits & Ready-To-Drink (RTD) Brands.

Purpose of Role


To champion & drive world class understanding of consumer attitudes, motivations and trends that can be leveraged to grow our brands


Top 3- 5 Accountabilities

Proactively defines & communicates opportunities for growth for the market, categories and brands and articulates what it will take to realize these opportunities

Externally attentive -to culture, trends and market place dynamics, to detect the factors that could positively or negatively impact growth.

Support development & implementation of brand strategy and communication through facilitating a deep understanding of the consumers.

Seeks out deep consumer / shopper / category insight and implications that will drive penetration growth

Transform research outputs into simple, actionable implications

Fuels the business with consumer/ shopper led provocations and understanding to instigate change

Synthesizes data and understanding from multiple sources -quantitative and qualitative and joins the dots in a meaningful, actionable way

Ensure that consumer knowledge is clearly reported and interpreted within the framework of brand related issues (Brand Tracking Study)

Lead regular brand activity reviews (QBRs), keeping the brand teams informed and updated

Custodian of brand building thinking (DWBB/NGM)

Ensures learning from measurement & evaluation are applied to increase productivity of our A&P spend

Ruthlessly prioritizes and focuses on tasks that add maximum value to Diageo, stops or delegates everything else.


QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

University degree in Marketing / Business or other related discipline preferred though not essential. Postgraduate Qualifications an advantage

Proven and strong Brand and Trade marketing experience (3-5 years) within an FMCG organization with a planning, brand & consumer focus, or a research agency background

Experience in both quantitative and qualitative research techniques

Can demonstrate excellent Commercial judgment & acumen.

Is experienced at managing key stakeholders nationally & internationally.

Policies highly relevant to the Marketing Function:


Diageo Marketing Code, Environment Policy, Competition & Anti – Trust Policy, External Communications Policy, Anti-corruption Policy, Occupational Health and Safety Policy, Corporate Security Policy, Employee Alcohol Policy, IMS Policy, Anti-discrimination & Human Rights Policy.

In addition, the Company has 15 (fifteen) global policies and a Code of Business.


CLICK HERE TO APPLY




Career Opportunity at Guinness Nigeria Plc – Diageo Plc, Saturday 12, November 2016

No comments:

Post a Comment