Senior Marketing Associate – PAYG Phones

Department: Marketing & Creative

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Zambia

Description

Job Location: Lusaka, Zambia.

About the Job

The Senior Marketing Associate – Smartphones will oversee marketing initiatives for the company's smartphone portfolio. The role focuses on increasing brand visibility, demand generation, and customer engagement while equipping sales channels with marketing tools, campaigns, and content. This role ensures the smartphone portfolio is effectively positioned in the market and resonates with target customers.

What you will be expected to do:

Work closely with the Global PAYG Marketing Manager to translate the strategic PAYG plan into country-level strategic and execution plans.
Develop and execute integrated marketing campaigns to increase awareness and sales of PayGo phones.
Create compelling product messaging, digital content, promotional materials, and sales tools for field teams.
Coordinate product launches, internal and customer-facing promotions, and market activations.
Monitor market trends, customer behaviour, and activities from industry participants to inform marketing strategies.
Work closely with Sales, Product, Customer Care, Programs Optimization, and external partners to ensure marketing initiatives are aligned and effective.
Assess campaign performance and provide insights for continuous improvement.

You might be a strong candidate if you have:

A Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field.
5–8 years of experience in marketing, product marketing, or consumer electronics/telecom marketing.
Experience in mobile phone retail marketing.
Strong knowledge of customer-focused marketing and brand building.
Proficiency in campaign management tools, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Experience with PayGo business models or consumer electronics is an advantage.

What Sun King offers

Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.

We place great importance on sustaining a diverse, inclusive work environment.

We believe that innovation and understanding comes from diversity on every spectrum. We work to make sure every Sun King team member knows that they belong, knowing that sustaining an inclusive workplace requires conscious effort and is a continuous journey, not an end-state.

Sun King recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes people based on their experience, skills, effort, and results. We explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, religion, caste, national origin, color, gender, marital status, family structure, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS status, or disability.

Candidate Case Sudy

Second Round Interview