National Trade Marketing: PMO
The South African Breweries SAB · Gauteng
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Key Roles & Responsibilities Strategy, PMO & Business Performance:
- Contribute to the development of the National Trade Marketing department and strengthen synergies between Sales and Marketing.
- Drive business strategy through projects and initiatives, taking ownership from concept through launch.
- Develop robust business cases for key ideas, supported by sound financial and commercial analysis.
- Establish cross-functional task teams to solve business problems and deliver agreed outcomes.
- Conduct competitor analysis, including market share, gap draught and SI data, and translate insights into improvement projects.
- Track and report key initiatives against strategic objectives and monitor STI targets for the National Trade Marketing team.
- Work with channel managers to build a project pipeline that delivers measurable value to the business.
- Manage agendas for CLT meetings to ensure that business priorities are addressed.
- Provide regular updates to the local BU leadership team, Zone Mancom and Global stakeholders.
- Build understanding and acceptance of the Trade Marketing agenda across the wider business.
People Leadership
- Lead, coach and develop 4 direct reports, ensuring clear objectives, effective workload allocation, capability development, performance management and succession planning.
- Build a high-performing team culture focused on accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement and delivery excellence.
- Ensure specialist capabilities remain aligned to national commercial priorities and strategic objectives.
Stakeholder, Supplier & External Partner Management
- Manage and influence multiple internal stakeholders across Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply, Procurement, Logistics, Technology, Zone and Global teams.
- Manage relationships with multiple suppliers, agencies, service providers and external stakeholders to ensure delivery against agreed commercial, operational and strategic objectives.
- Act as the central point of alignment between internal teams and external stakeholders to co-ordinate scope, decisions, roles, dependencies and execution plans.
- Drive supplier governance, service-level performance, issue resolution and value creation across key partnerships
TavNet Custodian
- Act as the custodian of TavNet, the multimedia network operating within Taverns.
- Develop and execute the TavNet strategy to maximise outlet reach, customer engagement, media effectiveness and commercial return.
- Manage the suppliers, external partners and service providers supporting the TavNet platform.
- Monitor TavNet performance and continuously optimise network effectiveness and return on investment. Outlet Health: On-Premises
- Own the Outlet Health programme across the On-Premises channel, covering both Taverns and Formal On-Premises FOP.
- Develop performance scorecards, standards and improvement plans to strengthen outlet quality, execution excellence and commercial performance.
- Use outlet health insights to identify opportunities and inform channel investment priorities.
- Co-ordinate internal teams and external stakeholders to deliver outlet improvement initiatives.
Refrigeration Asset Management: On-Trade & Off-Trade
- Own the national strategy, governance and optimisation of fridge assets across both the On-Trade and Off-Trade channels.
- Oversee fridge deployment, utilisation, compliance, maintenance and return on investment across the national asset base.
- Partner with Commercial, Sales, Supply and Operations teams to allocate fridge assets in a way that maximises commercial value, customer service and execution excellence.
- Manage suppliers and external service providers responsible for fridge deployment, maintenance and support.
- Develop asset performance reporting and governance processes to improve utilisation and guide investment prioritisation.
Draught Supply Stakeholder Management
- Act as the key commercial stakeholder for draught supply planning and execution.
- Manage draught volume forecasts and ensure alignment between commercial demand plans and supply capability.
- Co-ordinate between Sales and Supply teams to support appropriate draught product availability across the market.
- Monitor production targets against actual production, identify variances and escalate supply risks or corrective actions where required.
- Provide regular draught supply performance updates and insights to relevant stakeholders and leadership teams.
Minimum Requirements Qualifications & Experience:
- Relevant Commerce or Engineering degree.
- At least 5 years of Sales or Trade Marketing experience.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen.
- Proven people leadership experience, including the management and development of direct reports.
- Experience managing suppliers, agencies, service providers or external partners against commercial and operational objectives.
- Experience working across complex matrix organisations and multiple stakeholder groups.
Leadership & Functional Capabilities
- Natural cross-functional leader who acts in the interest of the overall business and gets the best from both direct and non-direct reports.
- Strong stakeholder management, influencing, collaboration and negotiation skills.
- Strong problem-solving, project management and co-ordination skills.
- Ability to translate strategy into practical channel plans and disciplined execution.
- Ability to balance strategic planning, operational delivery, supplier management and people leadership.
- Ability to work across functions in a matrix style of management without compromising key outcomes.
- A self-starter with strong self-management, a bias for action and a high degree of attention to detail.