Regional Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa & Sri Lanka

Regional Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa & Sri Lanka - Carlsberg Export & License, Dubai based

Carlsberg Export&License has an innovative growth strategy in the Middle East & Africa and is looking for an individual with proven project, marketing and sales skills. You will be responsible for supporting the profitability and volume growth of our highly successful portfolio of global and local brands in close cooperation with local partners in the Sub-Sahara markets.

What you’ll be doing

You are offered an opportunity to support and facilitate the long-term profitable growth of our business in the region. Together with your internal stakeholders within Carlsberg Export&License and Carlsberg Group and with our local partners, you will be responsible for developing & driving some of CE&L’s export and license projects in the MEA region.

One of the key responsibilities will be to drive our ‘new bizz’ agenda for the region, meaning building substantial brand positions in geographies where we are not sufficiently present today. This access to the market can happen in a number of ways, but it will be the responsibility of the RM for SSA and Sri Lanka to identify partners, develop (with internal stakeholders) business cases with a variety of RTM options, and lastly drive through an agenda on substantially increasing Carlsberg’s presence in SSA region.

In addition, you will be responsible for proposing a budget, facilitating the brand planning process, securing brand asset toolkits and local adaptation, managing sourcing/export workstreams and innovation projects, ensuring contract negotiation with support from our legal team, facilitating reporting, etc.

What we’re looking for

• We expect you to combine a Bachelors-degree / Master-degree in Sales & Marketing with 3-5 years of Business Management ideally with a couple of years of experience within a Beverage or FMCG business in a similar role.
• You ideally have a proven network in the region to be able to immediately engage and initiate step change projects for your region.
• As a person, you have a positive mindset, are proficient in communication, and are empathic and creative.
• You are also motivated, very action/result-oriented and possess analytical skills.
• You are effective at building partnership relations and possess good negotiation skills.
• You are collaborative across functions with proven strategic sales/marketing and project management competencies.
• You have a high work capacity with a low stress level.
• You are fluent in English and speaking French would be a favorable point.
• You can travel between a minimum of 50-100 days a year.

What you can expect

We’re asking for a lot, but you’ll be well-rewarded with:

• An attractive salary and benefits.
• Learning opportunities for growth and development.
• Working with a diverse variety of markets and cultures.
• Opportunities to travel to markets and expand your horizon.
• A truly purpose-oriented company with an effective CSR strategy.
• An informal and social work culture with enthusiastic colleagues.

Interested?

Apply through the link. Please notice that this is the only way we accept applications. CV and application letters sent by email will be disregarded.

The deadline for applying is the 5th of December. We read applications continuously, and vacancies may be filled sooner than the deadline, so we encourage you to apply as early as possible.

Carlsberg Group: Brewing for a better today and tomorrow
For us success has always been in the diverse mix of our people, our beers and our brands. At Carlsberg, we want to recruit and develop people with a global mindset, cultural understanding, and international experience to ensure that our organization stays agile, inclusive and prepared for future growth. Only by acknowledging and harvesting from different perspectives and experiences, will we gain competitive advantage and leverage the effect of diversity for business growth. Carlsberg aims to create equal access to opportunity regardless of social identity, and we encourage everyone to apply regardless of gender, nationality, race, religion or any other characteristics protected by law.