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.
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