Overview

Responsible for every aspect of the day-to-day supervision of retail outlets, including sales, staff, stock and resources management.

What You Will Do

1. Market research – should be  proficient at researching the market to identify current trends and also analyze other companies’ marketing campaigns and understand what is successful about those campaigns
2. Campaign management – must manage multiple campaigns at once, which involves a high amount of organization and multitasking
3. Pitching strategy – should be able build and deliver quality pitches to upper management and other involved parties.
4. Collaboration – marketing departments rely heavily on collaboration between other internal departments. As such, retail marketing managers should be able to collaborate and encourage their team to collaborate
5. Leadership skills – since retail marketing managers lead a group of specialists, they’re efficient team managers with a talent for conflict resolution

Required Qualifications, Skills and Competences

The successful retail marketing manager is quick to think of creative solutions and able to fit that solution into the overall product strategy. Successful candidates should have

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Marketing/Administration and three years of experience in Retail/Marketing positions.
• Good command over written and spoken English
• Microsoft Office suite proficiency
• Good management, Multi task ability and team leadership skills
• Able to work well under pressure and can meet deadlines