SafariCom Ethiopia Vacancy
Safaricom Ethiopia
Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia Vacancy Announcement Safaricom Ethiopia is looking for a qualified person who meets the criteria indicated below. Safaricom Ethiopia is owned by an international institute including Vodafone Group; Safaricom PLC; Vodacom Group; Sumitomo Corporation – one of the largest international trading and business investment companies; and British International Investment( BII) – the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor. We're pleased to announce the ensuing position within the Technology Function. In keeping with our current business requirements, we're looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below.
Position Media Buyer and Planner
This position is responsible for executing the traditional media strategy for the CBU – brand, products, DFS, segments, Enterprise business unit, and other crucial BU’s of Safaricom.
Key Abilities, knowledge, and experience Business capabilities Working With Others
- purposely takes way to make the utmost of every discussion/ commerce.
- Identifies people’s requirements, interests, and motives to be suitable to influence the decisions they make.
- Communicates simply to excite and engage people.
- Proactively adapts own style and approach to build rapport and work with others more effectively.
- Builds and maintains strong relationships and networks.
- Additional functional Excellence
- Targets trouble and resources on high value, high impact activity
- Focuses on achieving maximum performance and driving nonstop improvement.
- Thinks about processes and problems cross-functionally and end-to-end.
- Uses knowledge of products, technology, processes, systems, and policy to break problems.
- Creativity and Innovation
- Find creative ways to exploit opportunities and solve problems.
- Takes risks and pushes what's possible.
- Experiments with new and innovative approaches Business know-how • Uses data and exploration to make decisions.
- Balances current and unborn requirements
- Thinks and acts like an owner of the business.
- Acts in line with legal, nonsupervisory, professional, and ethical standards Working With Change
- Responds flexibly to changing situations.
- Manages the business and people aspects of change to drive performance. Project and Program Management
- Defines scope and deliverables in terms of time, cost, quality, and business benefit.
- Schedules activity and identifies resource requirements, dependencies, and synergies.
- Evaluates progress, mitigates risks, and addresses issues. Must have specialized professional qualifications
- Explains the functionality and benefits of our products and services in simple terms that excite and engage our customers.
- Matches our products and services to our customers’ needs.
- Explains the value of Safaricom solutions compared to our competitors.
- Fixes problems with maintaining service. Business Development & Planning
- Identifies and qualifies opportunities to develop and support new business.
- suitable to grow business through connecting to existing and new platforms.
- Negotiation
- Uses a range of techniques and approaches to make agreements that add value for Safaricom and our Customers.
- Understands customers ’ commercial drivers and leverages them in negotiations.
- Competing to win
- Brings energy and passion to work and always aims to beat the competition.
- Knows what the competitors are offering, how our offer compares, and uses market data to drive decisions.
- Service Quality and Planning
- Monitors Customer Satisfaction and NPS
- Financial Responsibility
- Responsible for developing, monitoring, and reporting on the expenditure of the media- Opex.
Key accountabilities and decision ownership
- Manage strategy and setup of all campaigns.
- Identify and understand the target audience for all campaigns.
- Analyze market trends and conduct dipstick research.
- Understand the Ethiopian media landscape including digital.
- Develop and maintain media station relations and ensure all stations and registered as Safaricom’s suppliers.
- Develop and manage media bookings and ensure all selected stations receive their schedules on time.
- Ensure media stations get their PO on time and follow up with campaign progress.
- Reconcile media orders and ensure stations are paid on time.
- Negotiate the stylish rate with stations and provide an effective plan for each BU.
- Provide recommendations and execute strategies for keyword opportunities, campaign structuring, targeting, display network, etc.
- Collaborate with the team to create high- quality content around important, applicable terms and maintain a harmonious voice across all programs.
- Support and manage the monitoring agency to track media performance, provide comprehensive reports, and ensure Safaricom is compensated.
- Research and test partnerships with new stations including indigenous to expand our reach and/ or lower our cost- per acquisition.
- Establish and maintain scalable processes that ensure stylish practices in campaign and lead management.
- Stay up to date with rearmost trends and changes within Ethiopia media landscape to improve and optimize marketing team performance.
Location Addis Ababa
How To Apply
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