National Trade Marketing: PMO - Sandton
Job details
The South African Breweries (SAB) is a subsidiary of AB InBev. Founded in 1895, SAB is South Africa's top brewer and leading distributor of beer.
For more than 120 years SAB has been an integral thread in the social fabric of our country and continues to play a crucial role in the national economy. The company operates seven breweries and 40 depots in South Africa with an annual brewing capacity of 3.1 billion litres. Its portfolio of beer brands meets the needs of a wide range of consumers and includes some of the country's most popular beer brands Ânamely Carling Black Label, Hansa Pilsener, Castle Lager, Castle Lite and Castle Milk Stout.
SAB also owns a hop production company, The South African Breweries Hop Farms (Pty) Ltd; a barley farming company, The South African Breweries Barley Farms (Pty) Ltd; a barley malting company, The South African Breweries Maltings (Pty) Ltd; and a 60% share of the metal crown manufacturer, Coleus Packaging (Pty) Ltd.
As South Africa's leading brewer, SAB is committed to promoting responsible alcohol consumption - both inside and outside the company. As a subsidiary of AB InBev, it subscribes to the Group's Alcohol Framework and has a comprehensive Code of Commercial Communication in place. SAB also actively seeks to encourage collaboration across the areas of education, access to information, law enforcement and parental involvement to encourage responsible alcohol behaviour.
Having adopted its first equity policy as early as 1971, SAB has been a pioneer for change in South Africa. In 2009, SAB tabled its trailblazing broad-based black economic empowerment transaction, SAB Zenzele. Through its various corporate social responsibility programmes, SAB actively invests in community partnerships and works tirelessly at socio-economic and enterprise development initiatives to build a stronger South Africa.The key purpose of this role is to act as a project manager that brings together all sales channels. Projects will vary, but will always be centered around optimizing the business and monetizing opportunities. This will be coupled with taking the national strategy and synthesizing this into channels.
Key Roles & Responsibilities:
Contribute to the development of the national trade marketing department, and bring improved synergies between sales and marketing
Driving the business strategy through projects and initiatives
Must be a self starter that sees projects through from concept to launch
Setting up business cases for key ideas (must have financial acumen)
Setting up cross functional task teams to solve business problems
Competitor analysis, including but not limited to analyzing market share, gap draught, SI data - and using this data to setup improvement projects
Tracking and reporting on key initiatives and tying this back to the strategic objectives
Helping to "sell" the Trade Marketing story to the business at large to gain acceptance of key projects
Work with the channel managers to develop a project pipe-line that delivers value to the business
Manage agenda's for CLT meeting to ensure that priorities are met
Regular update into the local BU leadership team, to Zone Mancom and to Global
Tracking STI targets for the national trade marketing team
Is the "Ambassador" of the BU, Zone & GHQ and connect local team with Zone or Global people when needed
Profile:
Relevant Commerce or Engineering Degree
At least 5 years sales or trade marketing experience
Commercial or financial acumen is key experience
Natural cross-functional leader that acts in the interest of the overall business and with the ability to get the best out of non direct reports
A self-starter with strong self-management
Strong problem solving skills
Able to influence across functional teams
Strong collaboration skills
A bias for action with a high degree of attention to detail with all activities
Ability to work across functions in a matrix style of management in a way that does not compromise key outcomes
Very strong negotiation skills with a high degree of commercial acumen
Strong project management and coordination skills
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