Exciting Senior Management

Globacom Limited is a leading privately owned multinational telecommunications company with Headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria. It is Nigeria's Second National Operator with licence covering GSM, Fixed, Broadband, Gateway services and an international high capacity submarine cable business, known as Glo 1. Globacom Limited is Africa's fastest growing telecommunications company with over twenty-five million GSM subscribers in Nigeria, the Republic of Benin and Ghana. It has acquired licence for Glo 1 in other West African countries.

In its quest to further strengthen operations and consolidate its position as a market leader, the Company desires to recruit highly competent, talented and self-motivated individuals to fill the following senior positions:

Attractive and internationally competitive remuneration packages, a pleasant working environment with good perquisites and challenging career prospects await the successful candidates.

Senior Marketing Manager, Product Development
(Ref. No: GLSMP002)

Specific responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Developing and delivering effective product and market entry strategies in line with the Company's corporate objectives.
• Building and ensuring timely launch of new products to capture and consolidate on considerable market share in GSM/Broadband/Gateway.
• Using various national & international benchmarking processes to identify areas of weakness of the competition.
• Developing product roadmaps to differentiate products and create brand pull.
• Managing products and services according to the various stages of the product lifecycle and devising various strategies to which the products could be enhanced.
• Adding new features to the existing products to enhance consumer experience.

Qualification & Skills

• Minimum of Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or any other relevant field.
• A Post Graduate degree in Business Management, Engineering, or any other relevant field will be an added advantage.
• Strong strategic orientation, leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Results-oriented and good project management skills.

Experience

• Minimum of ten (10) years cognate experience in Product Development, preferably from the FMCG or telecommunications industry, or from a blue chip company, five (5) of which must have been spent in a management role.
• Experience in working with cross functional teams, ability to carry them along in driving marketing initiatives.
• Exposure to the use of various analytical tools.

Location: Africa

Method of Application
To apply, please quote the corresponding reference number as the subject of your e-mail and e-mail your Curriculum Vitae (prepared as a Microsoft Word document and saved with your full names, detailing contact telephone numbers, e-mail address and scanned passport photograph) to us.

Send your Curriculum Vitae within two weeks from the date of this publication.

All applications will be treated in confidence and only short-listed candidates will be contacted.