Julia Kibore

Independent Consultant

Marketing Management Advisory & Consultancy | 2021- Present

• I advice organisations on how to stream line their marketing management operations through the © SSR Solution.
• The SSR Solution enables organizations to position marketing as a strategic function. This is accomplished by developing a marketing strategy that ties in directly with the company objectives.
• That solidifies the direct connection between the value of the marketing function and the bottom line.
• As a result, marketing is able to elevate itself from, largely ambiguous, into a valuable function with clear bottom line deliverables. The end result is what every CEO’s dreams are made of, they can justify marketing effort as well as budgets to the board and shareholders and directly attribute the same to the bottom line.

Chief Marketing Officer

DPO Group | 2020- 2021

• DPO Group is a leading African payments service provider (PSP) which enables businesses to make payments online and offline with all currencies and payment methods using a single integration and a dynamic currency converter.
• DPO has a footprint in 19 African countries and operates in: K enya, Uganda, T anzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Malawi, Mauritius, Ghana, Nigeria, Cote D’Ivoire, DR Congo, and Senegal.
• My position was the Group - Chief Marketing Officer. I reported into the Group CEO and sat in the Executive (Exco) of DPO Group. My key deliverable was to transform the Marketing Division from the previous role of simple marketing services delivery to a fully functional, operational and properly structured marketing division able to deliver brand awareness and product penetration across Africa. Another fundamental deliverable was to bring two of the South African subsidiary company’s marketing departments under one division to streamline accountability, planning, resourcing and reporting across the group.

Senior Manager - Brand, Marketing & Communication

Safaricom PLC | 2017- 2020

• Safaricom PLC (the leading mobile telecommunications company in East & Central Africa, also the largest company in Kenya. Safaricom PLC goes beyond telco and is today a digital lifestyle enabler, a platform, bringing voice, data, financial services and enterprise solutions to consumers, businesses and government.
• At Safaricom my role was Senior Manager - Brand, Marketing & Communication for Safaricom PLC within the BMC Department reporting to the Head of Marketing and leading the end to end marketing initiatives key consumer segments (Mass & Hustler), retail trade (Retail Shops & Open Trade) and a business division (Financial Services Division, M-PESA).
• My responsibility was to provide leadership, strategic guidance and decision-making support to the team to develop 360 marketing communication, ensure excellent output, delivered through a seamless and unified integrated marketing approach, that both engaged consumers and business segments while driving top line performance the organizations business priorities.

General Manager & Principal Consultant

Marketing Solutions Ltd | 2007- 2017

• MSL (Marketing Solutions Ltd) is a breakthrough professional marketing consultancy that uses advanced management models to provide marketing solutions to its clients. MSL delivers strategic marketing management assignments and 360° event management projects to yield colossal results for organizations.
• I was the General Manager & Principal Consultant of Marketing Solutions Limited a company offering Marketing Strategy and Event Management Solutions to clients. A proud moment was a marketing consultancy assignment that lead to the client attracting an investor from the middle east.

Group Product Manager - Oral Care

GlaxoSmithKline | 2005- 2006

• GlaxoSmithKline is one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies and is committed to improving the quality of human life. GSK EA’s business had a dual business units’ model i.e. pharmaceutical and consumer business.
• I joined GSK as the Group Product Manager – Oral Care. The role entailed handling the Aquafresh and Sensodyne Oral Care Brands for the East African Market.
• I came into the role at time when the brands had a management vacuum of almost a year. At GSK I proved my ability to hit the ground running and created a turn-a-round situation using my experience in both marketing and management during a period over just over a year.
• At GSK I proved my ability to hit the ground running and created a turn-a-round situation using my experience in both marketing and management during a period over just over a year.

Brand Manager - KIWI

SC Johnson | 2000- 2005

• SC Johnson (formerly *Sara Lee H & B C) is an American multinational that is privately held and manufacturers household cleaning supplies and other consumer chemicals.I worked at Sara Lee H & BC as the Brand Manager - Kiwi. I joined at a time when Kiwi the Market Leader faced an unprecedented challenge leading to a decline in market share driven by new entrants in the market in the form of Counterfeit and Me-Toos Shoe Polish. I horned and polished my brand marketing skills while at Sara Lee.‍