Digital Products and Experience Lead - Africa Digital Hub at Guinness Nigeria Plc

Guinness Nigeria Plc is a major market for Diageo: Guinness Nigeria operates in the unique and fast-growing alcohol industry of over 15mhl beer potential. It is the only company that does Total Beverage Alcohol (TBA) in Nigeria. It’s an on-trade-dominated market but with a fast-growing off-trade channel.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Digital Products and Experience Lead - Africa Digital Hub

Job ID: JR1110996
Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Job type: Full-time
Level: Senior Level Management

Purpose of Role 

• The purpose of this role is to enable markets to maximize our exciting network of websites (from our brand home sites to full-fledged D2C sites like  thebar.com
• You will do this by ensuring all websites a) have the best consumer experience possible and b) are managed to the highest reputational standards. 
• Acting as an extension of markets, and partnering with our Marketing, Commercial, D&T, and Legal functions (and agencies), you will ensure platforms are set up to deliver stand-out UX as part of a clearly owned destination strategy. 
• You will upload portfolio content that will help increase the overall quality score of the websites and will serve as the destination for our paid and organic search. Furthermore, you will action the technical SEO recommendations that will make our websites index seamlessly in Google search. 
• You will take responsibility for the delivery of core parts of the process, ‘heavy lifting’ on behalf of all European markets. This includes building user journeys to increase conversion rate, best in class check-out experiences, technical SEO amends, privacy policies, data collection forms and more. 
• Success in this role will be defined by improved Google quality score and increased consumer sign-ups (consumer engagement) and website conversation rate (D2C growth) through your hands-on interventions. 

Role Responsibilities   

• You will be a champion of consumer experience. You will ensure that websites are used at all levels of the consumer path to purchase and that the content present on these websites is fit for purpose. 
• You will use your knowledge to set a standard for user experience (UX) on our websites from landing on a homepage, band rowsing a product page to booking their distillery visit. 
• In your thinking around best-in-class user experience you will implement user journeys on the websites that reduce abandon basket, consumer churn and ultimately increase website revenue. 
• You will implement a sign-up experience that is seamless and inviting for users. 
• You will manage the regular technical updates on market websites that are essential to win in organic and paid search – this includes the correct naming conventions, website structure, indexing and more. 
• You will manage the multiple agencies required to enact technical changes on the websites, clearly assigning roles and responsibilities to the different stakeholders. 
• You will plot all of Diageo’s websites into a clear ecosystem to understand where there are cross-over / redundancies and where there are gaps / opportunities and reduce the complexity of making changes on websites and add agility to the process of keeping our websites best in class with regards to content and technical updates. 
• You will be an advocate of compliant website management – ensuring that the best practices on age-gating, privacy policies and data collection are present across all of Diageo’s websites. 
• Effectively tag our websites so that our media agencies and insights teams may harvest learnings from our owned properties and use actions that take place on our websites in our digital performance media. 

Qualifications, Knowledge, and Experience 

• Educated to a graduate/university level. 
• 10 years in digital with experience in UX/Websites, creative and product management or related fields. 
• Technical SEO experience – you understand that Google adverts are only as good as the landing pages where they are sent to and know how to implement technical audits to improve the structure of the site. 
• A subject matter expert on websites. You understand UX (User Experience), conversation rate optimization, bounce rates and more. 
• You have strong working knowledge of CDP and CRM systems and know how to get the most of these technologies. 
• Experience with Analytics, content management and privacy consent. 
• You let the data do the talking. You understand how to make sense of Google Analytics and other tools to understand how consumers with our websites and make insight-driven tools. 
• You have technical expertise in website software and infrastructure and can discuss these topics comfortably.
• You understand that websites require multiple disciplines working together; creative, brand, technical, content and development. You are a collaborator who can bring all those disciplines together working in the same direction. 

Application Closing Date
2nd April, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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