Job Description
Job Purpose
- The Job holder implements tasks associated with Food Concepts’ marketing strategies including day-to-day marketing operations by ensuring all requests are processed efficiently, coordinating with external agencies for seamless brand execution, and maintaining up-to-date marketing support for store openings, activations, and brand initiatives across all channels.
Core Responsibilities and Key Result Areas
Marketing Operations:
- Manage and track all marketing-related requests from internal stakeholders and regional teams.
- Build and maintain a request intake and approval workflow system to streamline operations.
- Serve as the primary liaison between the organization and the Retail Marketing & Activation Agency.
- Ensure timely delivery and proper execution of all activations, campaigns, and POS material deployments.
- Track agency performance and compliance to SLAs.
- Monitor inventory, dispatch, and installation of brand assets across stores.
- Ensure all brand collaterals are correctly and consistently deployed in new and existing stores.
- Coordinate all marketing readiness activities for new store openings, including branding, materials, and local launch initiatives.
- Oversee and approve all BTL activities, in-store activations, and event sponsorships in collaboration with the agency.
- Supervise execution of Local Store Marketing, events and outdoor catering marketing presence.
- Maintain a comprehensive tracker of ongoing requests, deployments, and activations.
- Generate regular status updates, reports, and feedback documentation for internal review.
Regulatory:
- Ensures compliance with any and all requirements defined/established by Government Regulatory agencies who have an over-sight responsibility of the Department’s activities
- Ensures compliance with confidentiality of Trade and brand secrets
Key Performance Indicators
- Marketing operations request turnaround time
- Brand collateral deployment accuracy and timeliness
- Activation campaign delivery success rate
- Agency service level compliance
- New store marketing readiness compliance rate
- Local Store Marketing revenue contribution
- Field activation ROI
- Outdoor event and catering marketing impact
- Marketing asset utilization rate
Job Specifications
Educational Requirements:
- A minimum of a university degree in Marketing, Advertising, Communication or related field is required
Professional Requirements:
- Possession of any relevant Marketing professional qualification is essential
Experience Requirements:
- Minimum of 6 years’ experience in similar role
Knowledge Requirements:
- Understanding of how to manage marketing and activation agencies, including setting performance expectations, monitoring compliance with SLAs, and driving accountability.
- Strong understanding of campaign rollouts, retail activations, and local store marketing initiatives.
- Strong knowledge of workflow systems for tracking marketing requests and approvals, as well as inventory management, dispatch logistics, and consistent deployment of brand assets across multiple locations.