Monday, April 7, 2014

Marketing Vacancy at Vodacom Nigeria


Head of Commercial Department


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  • Experience

Executive

  • Job function

Strategy/Planning, Product Management, Marketing

  • Employment type

Full-time

  • Industry

Telecommunications

  • Job ID

10885678

About this job

Job description

· Formulate the Commercial Operations Strategy for VBN.Oversee that the clients’ contracts are being correctly managed and monitored.

· Lead and Manage the VBN Bid team.

· Ensure customer pricing is competitive and accurate.

· Ensure pricing models are kept up-to-date and are in accordance with business best practice.

· Provide holistic commercial evaluation of deals.

· Provide an executive summary of Bid commercials for Management signoff.

· Monitor and track performance against the set targets for the Commercial Operations team.

· Manage the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities.

· Identify, Negotiate and coordinate team resources across various groups within the organization whose inputs are required to make product(s) amendments, support growth and meet customer demands.

· Analyse potential partner relationships for the product.

· Put in place business performance metrics that allows the success of the product to be monitored and measured.

· Keep tab of competitive threats, discover opportunities, and work on envisaged weaknesses to constantly position the company to achieve set vision.

· Oversee the development and implementation of the brand strategy.

· Develop and implement a Marketing Strategy which reflects priorities outlined in the company’s Strategic Plan – including campaigns, communications, events and PR.

· Work closely with the sales team; enabling them to meet their commercial objectives by providing them with appropriate tools, materials and presentations.

· Participate in pre-sales solution formulation through system deployment; including bid preparation and customer interface resulting in solutions architecture proposals.

· Oversee the preparation of the technical solutions architectural and implementation design documents.

· Develop and articulate solutions based on a customer's strategic business or technical requirements ascertained from working with multiple business units across the customer's organization.

Desired Skills and Experience

· The job holder will be responsible for the strategic leadership, direction and development of new commercial opportunities involving product management and development, marketing, pricing, special bids and pre-sales activities in Nigeria. 

· The job holder must have a Bachelor Degree or Commercial discipline from a reputable university with a minimum of of 10 years Commercial Management experience; inclusive of management in the ICT Industry (essential), with pricing principals, in a Telco, ISP, or related ICT services industry.

· Bid/Tender exposure preferred.

· 5 years Leadership/Management/Supervisory experience essential.

About this company

Vodacom Business Nigeria


Vodacom Business is one of the leading providers of Pan- African corporate total communication solutions. With customers in 43 sub-Saharan markets, Vodacom Business offers business communication services to local, regional and multi-national corporations operating across the continent, connecting over 1400 of the continent's largest and leading corporations.

With its brand promise 'Power to You', Vodacom Business reinforces its commitment to large scale investment in Africa, including new network builds and Data centers in Southern, Central, East and West Africa, the provision of managed network services and the delivery of hosted solutions across the continent.

Vodacom Business has over 500 employees and experts on the ground in Africa who are specialist in banking, oil & gas, mining, FMCG, logistics and distribution sectors.

Vodacom Business is wholly owned by the Vodacom Group, which is listed on the JSE Limited under the symbol of VOD. To find out more please visit www.vodacom.com.ng

 

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