341 Partner Manager jobs in Kenya

**Job Description :**
**Job Title:** Channel Manager - Off Trade
**Reports to:** Head of Customer Marketing
**About** **us**
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.
Join us to create a career worth celebrating.
**About the Function:**
Our Sales team love building relationships, connecting with customers to sell our much-loved brands in new and vibrant markets where they can thrive. They help sell our iconic brands across 180 countries every year.
We're operating across different markets, channels, and areas of expertise. Using your curiosity and passion, you'll make the most of consumer insight and digital platforms, reaching new customers, markets, and celebrations to help us achieve our growth potential. We'll support your learning and growth as you develop your career with us and work with people across our business to realize your fullest potential.
**About the Role:**
KBL strives to be recognized by its customers as the #1 Consumer Goods Company in Kenya. Achieving this ambition requires aligning all our efforts with customer needs, continuously excelling in delivering compelling shopper and customer propositions that resonate with consumer demands.
+ Adapt brand strategies and SUP plans into channel programs that increase profitability and drive positive ROI.
+ Develop programs contributing to category/brand P&Ls, crucial for KBL's performance as well as that of categories and customers.
+ Manage budget for in-outlet program creation, measured against growth targets for off-trade channels.
+ Seek a highly organized, dependable, self-motivated individual who thrives in a hands-on, fast-paced environment.
+ Exhibit disciplined creativity to bring Diageo's world-class brands to life.
+ Build strong relationships to expand influence and achieve results swiftly while managing multiple projects simultaneously.
+ Navigate complex matrix organizations effectively, handling ambiguity well.
+ Although this role has no direct reports, leading and influencing decisions is vital.
**Role Responsibilities:**
+ Execute commercial off-trade calendar management.
+ Tailor brand & portfolio activities into channel & customer programs aligned with commercial plans.
+ Contribute to trade strategy development focusing on Off-trade and wholesale segments while identifying opportunities and risks for business value delivery.
+ Develop scalable insight-driven programs for modern trade segments across customers.
+ Design customer-specific retail/segment programs aimed at boosting traffic, basket size, or conversion rates.
+ Collaborate closely with agency resources, finance, legal teams, and distributor partners.
+ Utilize data insights and possess knowledge of modern trade customers/shoppers/key segments.
+ Oversee in-store/bar programs from initial brief through toolkit development to execution support and M&E (Measurement & Evaluation).
+ Ensure commercially viable programs driving category growth beyond brand expectations are implemented effectively.
**Experience / Skills Required:**
+ +5 years proven track record in Marketing or Sales (Customer Marketing).
+ Strong creative judgment paired with solid commercial understanding of customer/shopper dynamics.
+ Deep familiarity with off-trade channels enabling brilliant shopper program development.
+ Ability to navigate Diageo's network efficiently using influence across various organizational levels-decisive action is key here!
+ Inspire agencies towards delivering exceptional work; experience working alongside key customers is advantageous.
**Flexible Working Statement:**
Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.
**Diversity statement:**
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
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**Worker Type :**
Regular
**Primary Location:**
KBL
**Additional Locations :**
**Job Posting Start Date :**
2025-08-22
With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers - the brands we're building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.
Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you'll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you'll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.
With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you'll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we'll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.
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