Deadline: 30 January 2016
The Palladium is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Senior Manager in Lusaka, Zambia.
The Senior Manager will design and lead market research, monitoring, and evaluation to expand the supply diversity of socially marketed health products in Zambia.
Palladium’s mission is to catalyze an enriched future for all.
Key Jobs Responsibilities
The Senior Manager will perform the following functions-
- Perform in-depth formative research including client centered segmentation, household/consumer ethnography, and social listening, and establish a platform for constant contact and feedback with consumers through existing community, civic and social networks to.
- Identify consumer insights to transform the way products and behaviors are being marketed and reach the next level of sales targets.
- Identify appropriate sub markets for initiating and expanding.
- Perform barrier and opportunity analysis research with providers to better understand ways to overcome barriers to and incentivize increased distribution and sale of key products and services.
- Design, develop and implement monitoring and evaluation.
- Implement a total market approach that takes a deep collaborative approach with the public-sector, existing social and behavior change and health systems strengthening projects, fast moving consumer goods companies, wholesalers, brand managers and marketers, emerging social enterprises and other key actors vested in the growth of the health product market in Zambia to ensure growth in the total market for different categories of products and services addressed through this project.
- Inform a strategy and plan for transferring products and brands to commercial sustainability and profitability.
- Facilitate a continuous learning, consumer insight approach to benefit users of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC), Family Planning (FP), HIV, and TB services as well as those of socially marketed products (including male and female condoms, OCs, misoprostal (new), Clorin, ORS/zinc (new), and LLIN).
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have-
- Minimum Bachelors Degree in marketing, social science, business, etc.
- Minimum eight years of progressively responsible experience in market and consumer research in developing countries, preferably in Zambia.
- Minimum three years of experience managing market and consumer research for social marketing programs that promote and sell a wide range of products for VMMC, FP, HIV, and TB.
- Experience with social marketing franchised services, and expansion of primary health services through partnerships with private sector partners.
- Proficiency in English at minimum USG FSI-III level or equivalent required.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, mentoring and capacity-building skills.
How to Apply
Applicants must submit their applications through online process.
For more information, please visit Palladium.
