TIGO Marketing Services Manager - Operation in Africa

We are currently looking for an experienced Marketing Services Manager to join our Management team one of our African Operations as a key contributor to reaching Tigo’s strategic goals and continually improving the present (and future) performance of Tigo Brand.  

This position is searching candidates specifcally who are bilingual in English/French to meet with the demands of the region.

As Marketing Services Manager Manager responsible for:

*  All Tigo brand communication investments:

--  Including all internal and external consumers and customers

*  Efficiently using the budget and tracking performance

*  Delivering results according to Tigo brand design & equity objectives

*  Consultancy for category and segment managers to develop most efficient business and communication plans

*  Ensuring a common language across the organization

*  Analyze product/service performance and prepare market feedback report.

*  Leading all Tigo consumer and market understanding research

*  Leading brand financial analysis

*  Consulting with category, segment managers and innovation managers and agreeing on market  and consumer research plans

*  Consulting management on business impacting market trends & opportunities (competitive intelligence

*  Acquiring consumer insight information

*  Creating information brief on market trends and competitive landscape

*  Creating regular product development briefing

*  Responsible of defining, reviewing and coordinating Research plan

*  Consolidates research data and business information

*  Responsible of providing the inputs needed to build product/offer feasibility study such as market segment, size of market, potential demand, price points, etc

Desired Skills & Experience

University degree, preferable in marketing, social, communication or arts

Master is a plus

Senior marketing and managerial experience

Preferably specialization in  brand management anmarket researchd/or

Telecommunications Backround

Knowledge

Project  management

Media Management and procurement

Business and communication plan

Trade Marketing

Basic Finance and pricing

Consumer psychology & behavior

Research (Quantitative & Qualitative)

Math & statistics (trend & root cause analysis) general knowledge

English and French

Company Description

Millicom provides affordable, widely accessible and readily available prepaid cellular telephony services to 38 million customers in 13 emerging markets in Latin America and Africa where the basic telephone service is often inadequate and where economic development and rising personal income levels are creating increasing demand for communication services. Millicom's shares are listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol MICC and on Nasdaq:OMX (Stockholmsbörsen) under the symbol MIC.