Location – Lagos
PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc, the largest subsidiary of PZ Cussons, has enjoyed tremendous business success in Nigeria for over a century.
No other consumer goods company possesses our heritage in Nigeria or understands its customers better than we do. Our approach to Nigeria, our customers, our consumers and to our business is designed to sustain us far into the future.
By combining our financial strength and the commercial acumen encouraged at all levels amongst our people, we are positioning ourselves to seize profitable new opportunities within our chosen sectors.
We firmly believe that our people are our greatest asset. As we strive for world-class standards in every aspect of our enterprise, our employees are encouraged to manage and delegate appropriately, to accept responsibility and to recognise that they are both empowered to act and accountable for their actions.
The Role: MARKETING MANAGER (FOODS)
The successful candidate will be required to:
• Create, develop and implement category/brands strategy in order to grow market share in volume, value and profitability.
• Initiate and manage the New Product Development (NPD) process.
• Ensure pricing strategy supports brand positioning and is relevant to the competitive arena.
• Deliver overall budgeted profitability by growing and sustaining category/brands performance.
• Lead and agree with sales department, the selection of the appropriate trade channels.
• Explore and exploit new opportunities for relevant portfolio.
• Monitor, control and report category performance through brand health indicators such as NNS, GM, OC,OP &Key consumer KPI’s.
• Develop and execute approved M&C plan for assigned category/brands.
• Understand and apply relevant external environment, e.g. consumer insights, competitor activity and other PZC OU activity (networks).
• Proactively feed into and follow up on actions from the Sales & Operations Planning process (S&OP).
The Person: The right candidate must possess:
• A B.Sc. Business Administration (an MBA will be considered a plus).
• 8 - 10 years relevant experience in sales/marketing departments of reputable food companies.
• Some external professional Qualification such as membership of the Chartered Institute of Marketing of Nigeria.
• A CANDO attitude, exhibiting our core values – COURAGE, ACCOUNTABILITY, NETWORKING, DRIVE and ONENESS.
Application Deadline: 25 Feb 2011
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