Marketing Jobs at ALAF and VSO

JOB DETAILS:
TRADE MARKETING MANAGER (Dar es Salaam)
Reference Number
AL2406202201

Description
• Ensure staff adherence to Security, Health, Safety, and Environmental procedures
• Developing and executing the Trade Marketing Plan in line with sales and marketing objectives and within the approved Marketing budget.
• Improving brand presence and campaign execution across trade through excellent in-store planning, execution, and tracking in alignment with the annual marketing plan
• Assist in the management of the product pricing strategy and trade marketing investments to support and deliver long-term growth
• Conceptualizing and executing trade promotions and rolling out impactful in-store campaigns in collaboration with marketing and sales teams
• Plan and manage trade visibility programs and initiatives at trade and ensure relevant messaging on all POS/BTL communication materials
• Consistent dealer engagement through training and regular visits to ensure that the brand is visible, and distributors are engaged on ALAF products.
• Responsible for competitive tracking and marketplace feedback, competitive reports, pricing reports, merchandising reports, local market economic factors, trade changes and trends.
• Provide trade marketing inputs into new products development
• Maintain good customer relationship between ALAF and its distributors
• Manage the quarterly market surveillance process by ensuring the timely collection of samples and submission of reports to the Marketing Manager.

Requirements
• A degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or related field
• A minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in trade marketing.
• Prior experience in Trade Marketing.
• Have strong analytical skills and comfortable dealing with numerical data.
• Capable of thriving in a matrix environment and adept at influencing and coordinating with different stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of the consumer industry
• Experience analyzing large amounts of data and trends
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively within a diverse workplace.
• Excellent Communication, Planning, and Organizing skills
• Ability to use independent judgment and to manage and impart confidential information.
• Advanced analytical, evaluative, and objective critical thinking skills and the ability to effectively summarize and present information.
• Listening skills as well as the ability to think creatively


JOB DETAILS:
Marketing and Graphic Designer Job Vacancy at VSO
• VSO is the world’s leading international development charity that works through volunteers to create a fair world for everyone. At VSO we pride ourselves on doing development differently. We fight poverty not by sending aid, but by working through volunteers and partners to create long-lasting change in some of the world’s poorest regions. We bring key stakeholders together to co-ordinate collective action, from local organisations to national governments. Our programmes in Africa and Asia focus on health, education and livelihoods, with an increasing emphasis on resilience, peace building, social accountability, gender and social inclusion. We’re not about delivering quick fixes, but instead we focus on long-lasting, sustainable change that will improve the lives of generations to come.

Role overview
• Working at project location – In this role, you will provide on-site support in the project location and/or VSO office, (full-time unless otherwise specified) for a set period of time.
• The Marketing and Graphic Designer will be supporting selected Medium Small and Medium Enterprises in developing and / or improving a brand that will stand out in the market. Also developing concepts, graphics and layouts for product illustrations, company logos, product packaging and websites. By working in this role, you can contribute to enhance the training and facilitation skills of highly motivated Tanzanians. When they are more empowered, they can deliver more and better training so that the Medium Small and Medium Enterprises can grow.

Skills, qualifications and experience
Competencies and Behaviour
At VSO we believe progress is only possible by working together. Whether you want to join us as an employee, or as a volunteer working in your own country, overseas or online, our selection process includes an assessment based on these core competencies:
• Ability to be open minded and respectful
• Ability to be resilient and adaptive to new situations
• Ability to facilitate positive change and build sustainable working relationships
• Ability to seek and share knowledge

Equal Opportunities
VSO promotes equal opportunities and values a diverse workforce.

Allowance
• As a VSO volunteer, you will be sharing your skills with local communities on a full time basis. VSO will cover your travel, vaccinations, accommodation, and medical insurance costs, along with a local living allowance which will be paid in local currency. This allowance meets reasonable living expenses in country, but will not be enough to send money home. You will also receive some financial support to contribute to your on-going expenses at home.

Accommodation
• VSO works with some of the poorest communities in the world which means accommodation varies and will be basic.

Some background about VSO
• Much has changed since VSO started 60 years ago. We’ve gone from being a UK charity to a truly global development organisation. In 2016/2017 alone, we worked with over 7,000 volunteers from all over the world and from all backgrounds to deliver services that had an impact on the lives of almost 2.6 million people in the 24 countries where we work. Our programmes focus on the areas of health, education and livelihoods, with an increasing emphasis on resilience building, social accountability, gender and social inclusion. We believe progress is only possible when we work together and that strong partnerships are crucial to delivering positive change. That’s why we work with over 500 partner organisations, from local and national governments, to businesses, NGOs, funders, charities and community groups. Currently, over 30% of our people are recruited from within the country in which they work, and we continue to grow the share of community and national volunteers involved in our programmes. We also send increasing numbers of volunteers from one developing country to another. However, our vision has remained the same; to build a world without poverty.