SSA Senior Marketing Manager

SSA Senior Marketing Manager

Job Description

Become part of the team powering household names like Andrex®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Viva®, and WypAll®. At Arbex, everything you need is right here: innovation, growth, and the chance to leave a real mark.

Settling for just any role isn't you, and it isn't us either. Being Unstoppable Together calls for a particular kind of person and teams who genuinely care about making a difference. Here, you'll channel your professional expertise, talent, and drive into building and managing a portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you'll help shape the future of tissue and hygiene for billions of people worldwide.

About You

As our SSA Senior Marketing Manager, you will be a key member of the South Africa Leadership Team and a strategic advisor to the General Manager, helping shape growth opportunities, portfolio priorities, customer strategy and commercial investments.

You will provide leadership across the commercial agenda, connecting business strategy with marketplace execution and bringing together Marketing, Category Management, Trade Marketing, Sales and Customer Development to deliver sustainable, profitable growth.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Translating regional and business growth priorities into locally relevant commercial and marketing strategies, while influencing investment, resource allocation and organizational priorities.
• Driving alignment across Marketing, Category Management, Trade Marketing, Sales and Customer Development to ensure effective execution of business priorities.
• Providing strategic leadership and governance across Family Care and KCP marketing organizations, including portfolio prioritization, innovation commercialization and marketing investment.
• Shaping category, channel and customer growth strategies and ensuring alignment with South Africa's overall business priorities.
• Guiding the deployment of DPSM principles and customer development priorities to strengthen marketplace execution.
• Providing strategic oversight of trade marketing, shopper marketing and commercial activation, connecting marketing and customer strategy with sales execution.
• Using local market, customer and category insights to identify growth opportunities and focus resources on the highest-value priorities.
• Championing continuous improvement and leading transformation initiatives that strengthen commercial capabilities and marketplace competitiveness.

Required Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you will need:

• A Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Commerce, Economics, Finance or a related field.
• Typically 10–15 years of progressive experience across commercial, sales, marketing, category management, revenue growth management, trade marketing or related business leadership roles.
• Demonstrated success leading multiple commercial disciplines and delivering profitable growth in a complex consumer goods environment, with significant experience in at least three of the following: Category Management, Trade Marketing, Brand Marketing, Commercial Strategy, Sales/Customer Development or Revenue Growth Management.
• Strong strategic and commercial leadership capability, including financial acumen, multifunctional team leadership, senior stakeholder influence, data-driven decision making and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Postgraduate qualification such as an MBA, Master's degree or equivalent commercial/business qualification.
• Experience leading organizational change, transformation or operating-model redesign initiatives.
• Experience operating within a matrixed regional and global organization.
• Revenue Growth Management experience.

What You'll Bring

You will combine advanced knowledge of commercial strategy and Go-to-Market execution with a strong understanding of FMCG dynamics, customer channels, shopper behaviour and competitive landscapes.

Your expertise will span areas such as category and portfolio management, channel strategy, pricing, trade investment optimization, promotional effectiveness and revenue growth management. You'll also bring strong financial acumen and the ability to interpret P&L drivers, investment trade-offs, forecasts and overall business performance.

Just as importantly, you'll bring an enterprise-wide perspective, executive-level communication and influencing skills, a passion for developing talent, and the ability to lead multifunctional teams through change and competing priorities.

Total Benefits

We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and we're committed to providing them with the resources they need to be successful. If you're looking for a rewarding career with a company that cares about its employees, then Arbex is the place for you.

To Be Considered

Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.

And finally, the fine print...

For Arbex to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that shape the future of tissue and hygiene. We seek to build a workforce that encompasses the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Arbex, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise.

We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The statements above describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for the position.

Employment is subject to verification of local policies.

Primary Location

Bryanston Office

Additional Locations

Cape Town, South Africa

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Welcome

Thank you for your interest in Arbex.

Backed by the power of over 100 years of legacy brands, we are the world’s next leading producer of consumer goods. When it comes to product development, we go beyond everyday needs to anticipate what life will require in the future—while keeping innovation, sustainability, and consumers at the core of every decision. From fibre to shelf, and beyond, we act with intention at every step of the way. Because scale isn’t measured by size, it’s determined by positive impact. And that’s how we deliver what the world needs next.