Junior Brand Manager

Ready to redefine skincare in East Africa? As a Junior Brand Manager, you’ll be the driving force behind expanding a beloved, dermatologist-developed brand in East Africa, bringing accessible and effective solutions to patients and consumers across the region. Your strategic vision will ignite growth, crafting impactful campaigns and fostering partnerships that empower consumers with healthier skin.

Here’s what you’ll be working on: 

• Strategic Planning: Analyze consumer, competition insights and trends to ensure accuracy of marketing messages and plan
• Brand Management: Drive topline growth, manage brand P&L and pilot product value & volume mix, marketing spends.
• Develop annual marketing plan, full 360-degree brand strategy and ensure proper execution.
• Medical Marketing: Create visual aids, post call emails and leave behinds.
• Launches & Activations: Launches evaluation based on marketing activities and brand strategy, sizing and rolling out launch activation plan.
• Digital & Merchandising:  Lead digital activation campaigns and ensure proper brand expression online and offline.
• Advocacy: Manage influencer campaigns to amplify brand visibility and love. Campaigns.
• Roll-out innovative consumer activations and animations to drive brand love, awareness and testing.
• Influence management with all functions to deliver brands goals: finance, sales, supply etc.
• Deliver clear presentation to top management.

You’ll thrive in this role if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in Brand Marketing.
• A medical/scientific background (e.g., a degree in Pharmacy, or a similar field) is an added advantage.
• Prior experience in marketing, digital marketing in FMCG / beauty / pharma is an added advantage.
• Good knowledge of beauty market and appetite for science and medical.
• Entrepreneurial and proactive spirit, able to work in a challenging and fast changing environment. 
• An individual who takes full ownership of their assigned brands, confidently making decisions driven by the strategic vision they have crafted.
• Good eye for detail.
• Ability to multitask: able to switch from medical marketing to merchandising in a minute.
• Assertive with strong interpersonal and networking skills.