Digital Marketing Manager at Baobab Microfinance Bank

Baobab is the leading digital financial inclusion group focusing on serving individuals, micro and small businesses in Africa and China. Our mission is to unleash the potential of our clients offering them simple and easy to use financial services. Founded in 2005 as Microcred, today Baobab has over a million customers and 3,800 employees operating in Burkina Faso, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia and Zimbabwe.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Digital Marketing Manager

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Reporting to: Country Chief Innovation & Digital Officer
Functional Links with: Country Head of Marketing, Group Head of Marketing, Group Head of Communication, Product Managers

Job Description

• The Digital Marketing Manager is responsible for driving growth of new and existing digital products, to support the Company (Baobab Nigeria) ambition to rapidly grow its digital business, especially mobile services.
• To achieve growth, the Digital Marketing Manager drives digital marketing activities of the Company, in coordination with the Company marketing department and Group central functions (Marketing and Communication).

Roles & Responsibilities
Strategy:

• Define and build the digital marketing strategy to achieve business goals and accordingly
• Build digital marketing budget
• Set digital marketing goals accordingly
• Define conversion rate optimization and personalization strategy, including ideation, planning, testing, optimization, and reporting.
• Define our bench of strategic KPIS to follow for each campaign.

Execution:

• Drive execution to achieve goals
• Leading paid campaign execution for key products and services solutions to drive adoption or new customer acquisition
• Manage paid lead gen campaigns encompassing programmatic banner ads, content syndication, and sponsored email
• Coordinate with creative and content teams to ensure campaigns are in alignment with brand positioning and long-term goals
• Creating and deploying paid tests and optimization plans
• Define KPIs and effectively optimize channel execution, while identifying tactics with high retention and viral follow-on
• Lead detailed analyses of campaign effectiveness, including segmentation, creative targeting, and cohort analysis.
• Develop, deploy, analyze and disseminate comprehensive reporting across media
• Collaborating and managing internal external partner relationships (digital agency, internal creative team…) and monitor results
• Manage and monitor the digital marketing budget
• Constantly find creative, unconventional, and cost-efficient solutions to increase customer conversion. Test ideas and find ways to automate.

Best practices, research and continuous improvement:

• Stay current with social networks, display, mobile, content syndication, and overall digital best practices, and communicate them the team
• Continuously improve standard operating procedures, and communicate best practices internal stakeholders across the organization
• Conduct research to understand customer nuances, engagement preferences, and the best way to reach them via paid media.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor’s Degree
• 6 years professional experience, 3 years Go-To-Market experience
• Proven performance marketing (SEM, Ad) experience required, experience of organic marketing (SEO) preferred
• History of running large scale A/B tests
• Strong command of at least Facebook Ads, Google Adwords and one emailing solution (Mailchimp, Campaign monitor…), Google analytics
• Deep understanding of acquisition KPIs and complex funnels
• Strong analytical skills
• Technically conversant and able to collaborate easily with engineers; Computing languages knowledge is a plus
• A hacker’s type mentality full of curiosity and creativity
• Self-starter with a can-do attitude
• Team player and ability to influence in a complex organizational structure.

Application Closing Date
21st September, 2021.