Head of Marketing -

One line description:

Build "Sales overnight, and brand over time" for Pizza Hut Vietnam to build the fastest growing, most trusted and loved F&B brand in Vietnam.

Key Responsibilities

1. Lead brand vision and brand positioning for the Vietnam market, with the CEO. Identify the consumer and market needs in which the brand can play and grow sustainably in the future and a path to get there. Requires strategic thinking, strong consumer orientation and fascination with food.

2. Build a unique "brand voice" and create a "brand world" which is distinctive in the market. Define the brand and customer experience across touch points, especially retail stores and online/digital. Needs strong communication experience and creativity.

3. Build traffic into stores and drive sales on a weekly basis with a marketing and food innovation calendar which builds long-term relevance and also drives traffic. Leverage performance marketing mindset and digital media to drive traffic, as almost all of marketing spending is on digital. Needs a commercial mindset, analytic ability, attention to detail, an understanding of F&B retail, as well as ability to move fast.

4. Lead culture and be a senior leader of the organization. Needs high EQ, self-awareness and ability to lead and inspire people.

Team

Will lead a team of 10-12 people in the marketing function with direct reports. Informally lead cross functional teams to align and execute marketing and customer focused initiatives. Reporting to CEO.

Culture:

Pizza Hut Vietnam is described as having a nice collaborative culture with a strong focus on people. We are also very high on integrity and transparency and a very strong code of conduct, professionally run. This is very different from most local businesses. We are quite diverse in terms of thinking because we are an international brand, run by a multinational.

We are also very fast moving, collaborative and entrepreneurial. We are an organization of -4000 people growing very fast, but want to stay nimble and fast moving. Our vision is to be a big brand, large business and high ethical practices, but with the "soul" and mind set of a start-up.

Growth Path

Immediate growth is to Marketing Director (In case of younger talent) as the business grows; In case of senior talent with the right experience, the path would be from Equivalent of Marketing director to a Chief brand Officer role which has R&D, Marketing and Digital/IT reporting in.

The role would offer a path to GM/CEO over time, after undergoing broadening in the Operations function for a period of time.

The Organisation

We are a part of Jardines Restaurant Group (JRG), which itself is a part of Jardines Matheson, which is $ 80 Billion USD conglomerate, with a long history, headquartered in Hong Kong and listed on the SGX (Singapore). JM is 130+ year old, professionally run organization with over 400,000 employees. It has multiple business interests in Vietnam with a presence in ley sectors such as F&B (Pizza Hut, KFC and Starbucks), Infrastucture (Jardines Schindler, Insee/Siam city cement), FMCG (Vinamilk), Automotive (Thaico) and Real Estate (Hong Kong Land) and hospitality (Mandarin

Oriental). We are the franchisee of Yum! Brands which owns Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell globally and works with large corporations such as Jardines to develop and operate the brands in market. JRG has the franchise for pizza hut in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Myanmar.

- Bachelor degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Public Relation.

- Minimum 7 years of experience with at least 3 years at managerial level in leading corporate marketing, channel marketing, PR and product management.

- Possess a strategic thinking, strong consumer orientation and fascination with F&B industry

- Mature, tactful, innovative and progressive.

- Pleasant and outgoing personality.

- Strong management and good interpersonal & negotiation skill.

- Good Computer skill in related specialized software.

- Good command in both English and Vietnamese.

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