{"id":4882,"date":"2011-08-04T08:51:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T08:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/?p=4882"},"modified":"2013-12-26T16:14:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T16:14:12","slug":"iburst-africa-telecoms-recruitment-2011-sales-and-marketing-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/iburst-africa-telecoms-recruitment-2011-sales-and-marketing-manager.html","title":{"rendered":"IBurst Africa Telecoms Recruitment 2011: Sales and Marketing Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Sales and Marketing Manager reports to the country CEO and supports iBurst Africa\u2019s growth and revenue generating efforts in the Ghanaian market, through effective and results-focused sales &amp; marketing strategies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Responsibilities<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Develops corporate sales &amp; marketing strategy and achieves sales &amp; marketing operational objectives.<\/li>\n<li>Achieves marketing and sales financial objectives by giving forecasts, prepares annual budgets, schedules expenditure, analyzes variances and takes corrective action.<\/li>\n<li>Prepares competitor analysis and coordinates continuous benchmarking to ensure product and services remain competitive.<\/li>\n<li>Builds and manage an effective sales team and a distribution network that adequately and continuously delivers on sales targets.<\/li>\n<li>Builds an effective and optimal distribution network for iBurstAfrica products.<\/li>\n<li>Recruits new resellers and effectively manage product availability, market trends and new challenges within the distribution network.<\/li>\n<li>Define, cost and implement marketing plans and communications strategy for the company in line with iBurstAfrica group guidelines.<\/li>\n<li>Work closely with advertising agencies in managing the iBurstAfrica brand and various product offers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Required Skills or Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>BA\/ BSc degree in Business management, Marketing or similar or related subjects. A Masters degree would be desirable.<\/li>\n<li>At least 10 years experience in Direct Marketing, Channel Management, Strategic Partnership\/ Business Development and Sales, 5 of which should be in a managerial role.<\/li>\n<li>Experience in the Telecommunications industry would be an advantage.<\/li>\n<li>Should have a proven record of success in developing and managing an effective and self sustaining distribution channels<\/li>\n<li>Hands on experience in managing sales teams<\/li>\n<li>Experience in Market research<\/li>\n<li>Must possess excellent negotiating skills, ability to build and develop strong relationships<\/li>\n<li>Must be computer literate and proficient in Excel, Word, Outlook and presentation software.<\/li>\n<li>Excellent written and oral communication skills<\/li>\n<li>Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>How To Apply<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To apply for this vacancy, send your CV and Cover Letter to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jobs@iburstghana.com\"><strong>jobs@iburstghana.com<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by 17th August 2011. Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted.<\/p>\n<p>Closing 10th August 2011<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sales and Marketing Manager reports to the country CEO and supports iBurst Africa\u2019s growth and revenue generating efforts in the Ghanaian market, through effective and results-focused sales &amp; marketing&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[176,27,23],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-1gK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}