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Job Title:   Brand Activations Associate  

Organisation: Sun King

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

 

About the Company:

Sun King designs, distributes, and finances the purchase of solar powered home energy solutions for the world’s 1.3 billion under-electrified consumers.  We are market leaders in the distributed off-grid solar industry, and our Sun King™ products have enabled 90 million people around the world to access clean, reliable, solar-powered light and energy at home.

 

Job Summary:   As a Brand Activations Associate, you will play a pivotal role in driving the success of our business through strategic marketing initiatives. You will work in partnership with diverse teams of partners to develop and execute integral marketing strategies, focusing on joint partner marketing plans, product management, brand communication, visibility and awareness. Additionally, you will steer efforts in integral events, conferences, sponsorships, sales team aid, PR, media communication for partnerships and key agency and supplier management.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Drive Brand visibility

Develop and execute marketing plans to deliver on business goals, including production of merchandise and other collateral to drive cost efficiencies.

Generate strong consumer insights to drive strategies, communication tools and collateral.

Steer product commercialization activities for products to include:

Demand & Convention planning duties.

Coordination of promotional material.

Creation or updates of marketing materials.

Sales field assistance.

Generate strong consumer insights that will drive communication.

Brand Communication

Sales Assistance

Generate brand awareness and increase talkability of Sun King.

Create and execute OOH branding strategy benefitting all sales channels for the business. Leverage on multiple marketing strategies – ATL, BTL & TTL to assist our sales channels in focus markets.

Steer and spearhead all internal events and conferences.

Execute all sponsorship initiatives leveraging Sun King brand in focus markets.

Coordinate with the EBD team on execution of events and conferences outside focus markets.

Create marketing materials to aid EBD team in effective selling i.e. Product videos, Sales kits and manuals, marketing POS, marketing merchandise etc

Create innovative uniforms and swag for sales teams.

Agency and supplier management

Create innovative local media solutions to derive cost efficiencies.

Any other duties allocated to assist the department & overall business goals.

 

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

Hold a degree in a business-related field

Have 4+ years’ hands-on marketing experience as an Associate Brand activations Associate, Assistant Brand associate or  Agency experience

Are self-motivated, self-starter who is willing to take initiative, ownership & accountability

Have strong planning and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects at a time

Are a highly results and performance-oriented person with the ability to solve problems and make critical choices

Can effectively work cross-functionally across several geographies, regions and teams

Possess the ability to develop strong internal and external partnerships and form strategic alliances

Have excellent negotiation/influencing and presentation skills

Possess the ability to conduct market research & study data and insights to inform strategy

Have excellent verbal and written communication skills

Are an excellent team player with strong interactive skills and Creativity

Have the ability and availability to travel on average 70%+ of the time.

 

How to Apply:




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