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Head of Marketing Africa
2026-04-07T10:40:17+00:00
Private Company
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FULL_TIME
Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
Kenya
Consulting
Advertising & Marketing, Management, Business Operations
KES
MONTH
2026-04-15T17:00:00+00:00
8

Responsibilities or duties

  • Develop and implement a comprehensive marketing strategy and plan to achieve organizational business goals and enhance brand presence across the entire region.
  • Collaborate with business team to uncover insights for developing marketing and branding strategies for existing and new products.
  • Oversee and grow the marketing department by identifying revenue opportunities among established clients and by securing new accounts.
  • Establish commercial priorities and ensure appropriate business focus through effective planning and appropriate resource allocation across the region.
  • Ensure the implementation and monitoring of required marketing activities to meet the strategic quantitative and qualitative KPIs of the business and where required take corrective actions.
  • Identify opportunities to reach new market segments and expand market share across the region.
  • Responsible for developing & managing overall marketing objectives across the region.
  • Works in close association with commercial teams across the region to deliver local revenue targets.
  • Manages the marketing/product team budgets. Ongoing monitoring of all expenses.
  • Ensures team cohesion & drives delivery of efficient and high-quality deliverables to support the Sales organization across the region.
  • Leads & provides guidance to an efficient and high-quality team & promotes synergy and best practice sharing among resources, drives active cross-functional collaboration to ensure success of all marketing / commercial projects & launch excellence.
  • Regional Forecasting: To achieve the agreed customer service level by providing accurate product demand forecasts. Ensure that all forecasting assumptions for the region are appropriately documented.
  • Provide supervision through regular field visits, observations and measurement of results to include campaign evaluation, key opinion leaders feedback and field intelligence reports.
  • Takes initiative to drive standardization of reporting across the various portfolios & oversees marketing excellence across the region.

Qualifications or requirements

Educational Background:

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Business Administration, or related field is required.
  • MBA or advanced degree is a required.

Professional Experience:

  • Minimum 10 + years within marketing environment, strong exposure to market research and business analytics.
  • Minimum of 8+ years of experience in a Senior Marketing Management position with demonstrable line management experience, to be able to provide coaching to experienced product managers.
  • Solid understanding key performance metrics and tracking tools for market research, forecasts, competitor analyses, campaign results, and consumer trends, and translate results into actionable insights for marketing team.
  • Develop and implement a comprehensive marketing strategy and plan to achieve organizational business goals and enhance brand presence across the entire region.
  • Collaborate with business team to uncover insights for developing marketing and branding strategies for existing and new products.
  • Oversee and grow the marketing department by identifying revenue opportunities among established clients and by securing new accounts.
  • Establish commercial priorities and ensure appropriate business focus through effective planning and appropriate resource allocation across the region.
  • Ensure the implementation and monitoring of required marketing activities to meet the strategic quantitative and qualitative KPIs of the business and where required take corrective actions.
  • Identify opportunities to reach new market segments and expand market share across the region.
  • Responsible for developing & managing overall marketing objectives across the region.
  • Works in close association with commercial teams across the region to deliver local revenue targets.
  • Manages the marketing/product team budgets. Ongoing monitoring of all expenses.
  • Ensures team cohesion & drives delivery of efficient and high-quality deliverables to support the Sales organization across the region.
  • Leads & provides guidance to an efficient and high-quality team & promotes synergy and best practice sharing among resources, drives active cross-functional collaboration to ensure success of all marketing / commercial projects & launch excellence.
  • Regional Forecasting: To achieve the agreed customer service level by providing accurate product demand forecasts. Ensure that all forecasting assumptions for the region are appropriately documented.
  • Provide supervision through regular field visits, observations and measurement of results to include campaign evaluation, key opinion leaders feedback and field intelligence reports.
  • Takes initiative to drive standardization of reporting across the various portfolios & oversees marketing excellence across the region.
  • Market research
  • Business analytics
  • Line management
  • Coaching
  • Key performance metrics tracking
  • Forecasting
  • Competitor analysis
  • Consumer trend analysis
  • Actionable insight generation
  • Team leadership
  • Budget management
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Reporting standardization
  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Business Administration, or related field
  • MBA or advanced degree
  • Minimum 10 + years within marketing environment
  • Strong exposure to market research and business analytics
  • Minimum of 8+ years of experience in a Senior Marketing Management position
  • Demonstrable line management experience
  • Solid understanding key performance metrics and tracking tools for market research, forecasts, competitor analyses, campaign results, and consumer trends
postgraduate degree
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Vacancy title:
Head of Marketing Africa

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Consulting, Category: Advertising & Marketing, Management, Business Operations]

Jobs at:
Private Company

Deadline of this Job:
Wednesday, April 15 2026

Duty Station:
Nairobi | Nairobi

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, April 7 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Responsibilities or duties

  • Develop and implement a comprehensive marketing strategy and plan to achieve organizational business goals and enhance brand presence across the entire region.
  • Collaborate with business team to uncover insights for developing marketing and branding strategies for existing and new products.
  • Oversee and grow the marketing department by identifying revenue opportunities among established clients and by securing new accounts.
  • Establish commercial priorities and ensure appropriate business focus through effective planning and appropriate resource allocation across the region.
  • Ensure the implementation and monitoring of required marketing activities to meet the strategic quantitative and qualitative KPIs of the business and where required take corrective actions.
  • Identify opportunities to reach new market segments and expand market share across the region.
  • Responsible for developing & managing overall marketing objectives across the region.
  • Works in close association with commercial teams across the region to deliver local revenue targets.
  • Manages the marketing/product team budgets. Ongoing monitoring of all expenses.
  • Ensures team cohesion & drives delivery of efficient and high-quality deliverables to support the Sales organization across the region.
  • Leads & provides guidance to an efficient and high-quality team & promotes synergy and best practice sharing among resources, drives active cross-functional collaboration to ensure success of all marketing / commercial projects & launch excellence.
  • Regional Forecasting: To achieve the agreed customer service level by providing accurate product demand forecasts. Ensure that all forecasting assumptions for the region are appropriately documented.
  • Provide supervision through regular field visits, observations and measurement of results to include campaign evaluation, key opinion leaders feedback and field intelligence reports.
  • Takes initiative to drive standardization of reporting across the various portfolios & oversees marketing excellence across the region.

Qualifications or requirements

Educational Background:

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Business Administration, or related field is required.
  • MBA or advanced degree is a required.

Professional Experience:

  • Minimum 10 + years within marketing environment, strong exposure to market research and business analytics.
  • Minimum of 8+ years of experience in a Senior Marketing Management position with demonstrable line management experience, to be able to provide coaching to experienced product managers.
  • Solid understanding key performance metrics and tracking tools for market research, forecasts, competitor analyses, campaign results, and consumer trends, and translate results into actionable insights for marketing team.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 96

Level of Education: postgraduate degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Marketing jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: Wednesday, April 15 2026
Duty Station: Nairobi | Nairobi
Posted: 07-04-2026
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 07-04-2026
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 10-10-2076
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