Job Description :
Role Purpose
The purpose of this role is to develop and deploy world class marketing business plans that are insight driven, consumer focused and commercially viable. This role is accountable for brand market performance and is expected to lead or support interventions that unlock growth. The role will also be charged with managing advertising and promotion resources as allocated, driving effective and efficient use of media spend and collaboration with the Shopper Marketing team to ensure BTL spend efficiency. The role will link in with the Diageo Global brand teams (GBT’s) to ensure that key platforms are developed to serve our market needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Building purposeful winning brands: execute the Market Business Plan (MBP) for designated brands, leading development and execution of strategic growth drivers to achieve desired outcomes; craft compelling brand and strategic narratives that energise consumers and the business; lead connections planning as a social native and commercial realist; be adept at delivering brand content and experiences in all the moments that matter; manage the development and distribution of the brand content to consistently engage with consumers in culture to build MDS.
- Driving Marketing Performance: consistently execute plans that beat volume, NSV and CAAP targets; leverage understanding of the category, customer profitability and the competitive landscape to deploy activities that create value for customers & the brand; manage the brand’s P&L levers to grow profitability with optimal use of A&P
- Delivering Integrated Execution: strong creative judgment when evaluating creative ideas and giving simple, effective feedback vs fit to brief; multi-channel execution: create great plans and distribute content to grow salience and drive reach, recency, impact and reach among the target audience; pace and agility: knows what works for consumer and customer, and can guide others, to make the right marketing decisions at the right time; manages productive relationships with internal and external partners, including C&E, agencies and influencers, to achieve cultural traction, brilliant creative outputs and ROI; works with agencies to ensure optimal media mix; delivers effective and efficient media pans that drive impact, recency and reach
Minimum Requirements
- 3-4 years + experience in marketing in IPS and/or FMCG/Luxury good categories. Candidates should have had similar roles in peer companies.
- Proactively Defines and Communicates Growth Opportunities: Takes the lead in understanding consumer and market contexts, identifying opportunities and threats for brands across short and long-term horizons, and effectively communicates these insights.
- Consumer Insight: Actively seeks innovative methods to engage with consumers by delving deeper into their motivations and understanding their evolving needs.
- Strategic Planning: Develops robust plans and briefs grounded in a comprehensive understanding of consumers and market dynamics, focusing on driving sustainable growth.
- Creation and Execution: Leads the development and implementation of brand activities across Above-The-Line (ATL) and Below-The-Line (BTL) channels, ensuring adherence to minimum execution standards for an optimal consumer experience.
- Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E): Guides the business in identifying and prioritizing impactful growth drivers while discontinuing less effective strategies, ensuring resource allocation is aligned with strategic objectives.
Diversity statement:
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
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Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
Lagos HQ
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2025-08-08