Portfolio Manager Opportunity

Job description

Assumes overall responsibility for the efficiency, quality, and quantity of marketing, sales and PR activities within portfolio. Responsible for induction and selected staff training functions

• Manage relations with very diverse clients
• Success often depends on quality of input from others
• Close contact with direct reports (working at various malls)
• Travels often
• High-level relationship building with clients (e.g. visits, calls, attending important meetings, follow-up).
• Keeps such clients informed of important incidents progress, plans, decisions, etc.
• Attends to queries or complications that were escalated to this level.
• Ensures that self and team understand client’s needs, operating environment, strategy, etc.
• Ensures that self and team create realistic expectations and meet them (including appointments, keep promises, honor contracts, follow-up, etc.)
• Ensures that company values are consistently reflected in behavior of self and team.
• Ensures that marketing strategy is interpreted correctly by staff and executed to standard.
• Sets high but achievable targets and standards, aligned with company strategy.
• Grows customer base
• High level monitoring and analyses of marketing activities: (e.g. statistics, progress, trends, rates, campaigns, complaints, service levels, contracts, productivity, expenses, etc.). If required, takes corrective action.
• Ensures cooperation, synergy and effective communication between own and other departments and individuals at Lifestyle
• Budget management: assumes overall responsibility of portfolio budget, approve expenditure and monitor expenses.

Requirements

• Post graduate in PR/Marketing/Sales
• Extensive experience in a marketing management capacity.
• A training background would be advantageous

Personal Skills/Attributes

Customer focus

Planning and evaluating

• Develops strategies for accomplishing goals and assesses the effectiveness of plans, programs, and operations
• Monitors progress toward objectives and adjusts plans as necessary to reach them
• Identifies needs/problems, secures relevant information, relates data from different sources, and determines causes or needs/problems
• Work organisation
• Organises activities to ensure their proper completion in a timely manner
• Effectively schedules time by assigning priorities to daily/weekly/monthly work activities
• Avoids crises through systematic planning and follow through
• Written communication
• Communicates effectively, thoroughly, and accurately in writing
• Writes concise, organized, and easy-to-read reports, letters, memos and emails
• Prepares accurate and effective formal documents, as required

Oral communication

• Communicates effectively with individuals and groups
• Presents ideas in a clear and concise manner to individuals or groups
• Maintains discretion and confidentiality in communications with others
• Actively listens to others, gives appropriate feedback, and makes them feel comfortable

Technical and professional knowledge

• Coordination/team building
• Keeps up-to-date within his/her field of expertise, and uses such knowledge effectively.
• Serves as a “resources person” on whom others rely for advice.
• Uses all the resources at his/her disposal to be able to answer even the most difficult questions.
• Job motivation/initiative
• Demonstrates a consistent, dependable work effort and a positive work attitude
• Takes the initiative; doesn’t wait to be told what to do or how to do it
• Exhibits enthusiasm, energy, drive, and tenacity in the pursuit of job goals
• Takes ownership of his/her work
• Displays flexibility when dealing with unique situations
• Employs innovative problem solving to accomplish objectives
• Exhibits common sense, ingenuity, and creativity in the development of new or improved methods or approaches

Interpersonal skills

• Shows respect for others and maintains smooth working relationships
• Demonstrates a genuine concern for others
• Works to reduce interpersonal conflicts
• Exercises tact and sensitivity when dealing with others
• Flexibility/adaptability
• Remains calm when dealing with people who are upset
• Exhibits flexibility and adapts readily to changes in systems, processes, procedures and circumstances
• Responds effectively to short deadlines and increased workflow
• Receives criticism without hostility
• Adapts quickly to change.
• Completes projects and tasks successfully under stressful conditions.

Handles many tasks simultaneously without losing effectiveness.

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