The Virgin Mobile Product Marketing team is seeking a dynamic and innovative individual to drive sales & revenue targets in a fast paced, highly competitive marketplace. This position provides an excellent opportunity to work in a high profile and challenging environment where roadmaps don’t exist. The role focuses on analyzing revenue, sales and profitability results to provide current forecasts to senior management. The role also provides the opportunity to develop and manage quarterly promotions, strategic offers & competitive responses to ensure achievement of those forecasts.
The really important stuff?
Responsible for:
Forecasting marketing KPI’s for both prepaid and postpaid portfolios
Modeling financial scenarios balancing several variables in order to assist team in making business decisions
Assisting in the development of pricing & proposition designed to achieve organizational objectives
Presenting program initiatives to cross functional teams for feedback
Assisting in "take to market" process for Virgin Mobility campaigns. This includes input into marketing strategy, offer development & research, creative briefs, cross functional team coordination, tactical execution & approvals, results tracking & analysis
Managing market analysis and make recommendations for gap closure initiatives
Managing & track program results
Business case development & approval
Post mortem development and analysis
Meeting aggressive due dates on project implementation
The "Must Haves"?
Proficient in the development and maintenance of forecasting and reporting tools.
University degree with a Business, Marketing and/or related discipline
Minimum 3 years experience in Marketing / telecommunications
Strong quantitative and analytical skills (including expert knowledge of Excel, Access, Powerpoint)
Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal (ability to effectively communicate in front of large groups of people)
Solid partnering and creative problem solving skills
Flexibility and the ability to comfortably operate in an ever-evolving environment]
Good knowledge of the evolving competitive telecom environment
What else are we looking for from you?
Creative and inventive, yet pragmatic, approach to problem solving
Ability to think and operate both strategically and tactically
Strong team leadership skills, with a willingness to say what’s on your mind
Flexible approach to work, with ensured closure of tasks
Team player - desire to work in and help promote a fun and exciting work environment
Proactive - "can do attitude"
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