Marketing Officer Jobs at IT Company in Uganda

Job Title: Marketing Officer

About this job

Our client is an IT Company seeking to recruit result driven and motivated individuals for the Vacancy above;

Job Objective:

To increase visibility of the Company in the market, and in turn lead to growth in Sales Revenue and market share.

Duties and Responsibilities:

    Responsible for promoting the company brand name and products to prospective clients and relevant stake holders
    Develop strategies to guide the sales team
    Participate in setup of the Tinosoft Limited’s experience centre
    Undertake Business Development Activities like looking for tendering opportunities
    Creating detailed proposal documents, often as part of a formal bidding process that is largely dictated by the prospective customer;
    Researching consumer markets, monitoring market trends and identifying potential areas in which to invest, based upon consumer needs and spending habits
    Looking at the pricing of products and analyzing the potential profitability
    Assist in generating names for new and existing products and services, coming up with ideas for new packaging designs, including shape, size, colours, fonts and imagery
    Overseeing the production, advertisements, email campaigns, websites, exhibition stands, and road shows and liaising with art designers.
    Supervising the sign off of marketing literature, communication and campaigns, liaising with legal and compliance personnel, ensuring the designs and messages meet the company brand and regulatory guidelines
    Monitoring product distribution and consumer reactions through focus groups and market research
    Co-ordinating the launch programme to external customers as well as employee
    Identifying and establishing contact with potential customers proactively.
    Maintaining contact with new and existing customers to advertise the product sales and deliver a detailed account strategy.
    Responding to sales inquiries from new and existing customers.
    Delivering presentations of the company products at conferences, customer sites and exhibitions.
    Attending user group meetings and trade exhibitions.
    Maintaining the company’s contact database management with up-to-date contact, accurate and activity details.
    Delivering platform presentations, publications, posters at conferences.
    Testing very new product releases to support product development team.
    Providing feedback of potential customers and members to enhance product functioning and the service delivery.
    Assisting to identify the opportunities for upcoming products, and for development and enhancement of existing products.
    Motivating all sales staff to share relevant data about the market in facilitating the ease of retrieval, recording, and use of information.
    Monitoring and reporting the potential collaborators and competitor activities and identifying business threats and opportunities.

Competences:

    Good  instinctive feeling about future product concepts
    Good analytical skills
    Good listening and  able to respond to results and consumer research
    Excellent communicator, both verbally and in writing
    Possess ability to plan and organize
    Be enthusiastic about their product area.

Qualifications:

    1st Class or Upper Second Class degree in marketing or related field. Professional qualification in Marketing or its equivalent from a reputable institution.
    Proposal writing, PR & Communication.
    Experience in IT sector.
    Minimum of 2 years work experience.
    Knowledge of IT sector ,

How to Apply:

Please follow the instructions as stated below as failure to do so could lead to disqualification.

1. Send an Application letter and CV/Resume.

2. Merge these two documents into one document in either word or pdf format.

3. Do not attach or send any scanned documents, these are sometimes too large for our inbox.

4. Include the job title and/or reference number in the subject line of the email address   and send your application by email to tsjobs@nftconsult.com

5. Only successful candidates will be contacted. For all other inquiries please contact our offices directly.



Deadline: 18th June 2012