Job Description

:The innovations team is charged with the responsibility of delivering business growth and recruitment of new consumers in the next years through brilliant execution of new insights that delight consumers and are compelling to trade partners. This team plays a critical role in crafting the future of the business; delivering innovations that respond to consumer and customer needs, setting trends, redefining, and crafting the choices available to our consumers.The role will be accountable for the commercialisation of allocated projects in support of the Diageo innovation agenda in SWC Africa by building channel specific innovation and category execution guidelines and standards plus collaborating with the sales team to guide and ensure brilliant execution.

• Establish competitive advantage through Innovation and customer marketing expertise, demonstrating operational excellence.
• Ensure integration of Innovations into the commercial planning calendar, aligning with strategic objectives; develop commercial plans and collaborate to secure commercial alignments required for successful launches.
• Drive flawless planning and execution through the Brilliant Execution Process, supporting transformational change initiatives; deliver the tools and execution materials required to drive world class innovations commercial execution.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of channel outlet profiles to drive commercial standards implementation. Leverage market trends and internal opportunities to develop effective innovation channel plans.
• Leverage strong analytical skills to uncover insights, track progress, implement corrective action and deliver against business KPIs.
• Tracks and evaluate point of purchase execution against well-defined scorecard metrics (distribution, visibility, share of shelf, merchandising guidelines, pricing, etc.) ensuring we deliver on time every time to our customers.

Qualifications xc2xb7

• Suitable degree
• Drivers license Experience xc2xb7
• 3-5 years of experience in sales and/or customer marketing/trade marketing areas with a clear understanding of how sales organisations operate and how to drive its effectiveness

Worker Type : RegularPrimary Location: WaterfallAdditional Locations :Job Posting Start Date : 2024-06-14

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