Marketing Manager Job Placement – Movit Products Limited
Organization: Movit Products Limited
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Chief Marketing officer
About US:
Movit Products Ltd is a Ugandan personal care company based in Kampala, manufacturing personal care products. Its brands include Movit, Radiant, Baby Junior, Skin Guard, Pine and NAN. The company was founded in 1997, by Simpson Birungi as a makeshift workshop in Namasuba, Wakiso District. In 1999 the first Movit product, Herbal Baby Jelly, was put on the market. Over the years, Movit, the company’s flagship name, has grown into one of Uganda’s top cosmetics brands with distribution links in both East Africa and the COMESA regions. Other known products from Movit include the Body Milk Lotion, Junior Petroleum Jelly, Movit No base Relaxer and many more
Job Summary: To coordinate all marketing activities in the international business operations of MPL so as to meet the company strategic objectives
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Take part in the overall market planning by providing insights of international business operations to help achieve the strategic objectives of the business;
- Enhance the contribution to revenue per product for the 3 brands through executing market research, product portfolio management, tracking and brand activations in line the respective departmental work plan;
- Field visits and reporting to follow up on the challenges faced, new expectations and follow up towards their achievement;
- Coordinating the implementation of customer relationship marketing programs for international business;
- Coordinate channel branding consistency in the respective countries to ensure the three brands are well represented;
- Prepare and submit relevant administrative documents in a timely and accurate manner, i.e.: letters of credit; credit control mechanisms; licenses; declarations; clearances, permission letters, safety protocols, goods handling instructions, routing, proper packing, suitable transport methods and safety documentation.;
- Follow-up on the implementation of the Export Sale strategies that may include Trade shows, Market activation events and market intelligence plans; and
- Perform general market audits in line with general trade merchandizing and supermarkets merchandizing.
- Daily tracking of order status for all approved transactions
- Ensure 100% payment before the dispatch of the agent’s consignments
- Ensure 100% compliance as per the country trade regulations
- Timely delivery of the required product sample to regulatory body with in the specific timelines
- Make status reports on key supervised company activation campaigns
- Tracking and monitoring company based activities to ensure visibility and value for money
- Update the company customer data base
- Weekly itinerary for all the zones/agents in the assigned region with clear supervisory activity based plans
- Ensure 100% management of all customer complaints
- Ensure 100% compliance with the required export documentation check list
- Ensure 100% success rate on all assigned export deliveries
- Express a high degree of flexibility and versatility
- Analytical Decisions
- Operation Decisions
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal applicant must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field
- Computer literacy
- Budgeting skills
- Knowledge of relevant legislations
- Global marketing knowledge
- Strong analytical skills
- Tactical skills
- Supervisory skills
- Leadership skills
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Conflict management skills
- Organizational skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- At least three (3) years’ experience in the previous grade
How to Apply:
To apply, please send your CV and cover letter with 3 work related referees to the address or e-mail below. Emails that exceed 2MB will not be considered
Email: application@ppg.co.ug
While we thank all applicants for your interest, only those that qualify will be contacted. Any form of lobbying will lead to automatic disqualification.
Deadline: 13th February 2020