Current Job Openings In a Reputable company In The FMCG Industry

Nicole Sinclair Consulting - Our client is a service provider to the FMCG industry and their goal is to provide technological services to aid sales and distribution of their products. We are recruiting to fill the position below:     Job Title: Marketing Manager (FMCG) Location: Lagos Job Description

• The Marketing Manager role is a unique opportunity in Nigeria,responsible for the attainment of client base growth, market research, gaining distribution channels and revenue growth.

• Define and execute the marketing strategy
• Design, implement and track end-to-end acquisition, engagement, retention and brand marketing initiatives
• Champion retailer and brand needs to appropriately position the proposition in your markets based on rigorous insights
• Launch innovative fully integrated marketing initiatives across Digital, Social, Offline, BTL and Comms
• Be the leadership's trusted advisor on all facets of marketing strategy and plan/execute seamlessly in sync with Product and Operations.
• Develop a marketing communications plan including strategy, goals, budget and tactics
• Coordinate and manage all public relations activities with PR team
• Build and grow a world-class marketing team

• Provide input to the annual Strategic Marketing Planning process
• Ensure accuracy of marketing materials and be responsible for formal sign off process where required
• Ensure detailed and accurate records are maintained, e.g. recording contact and financial information
• Adhere to all policies and procedures with regards to budget expenditure, displaying budget control for individual products and courses reporting any variances promptly
• Actively partake in the running of the department providing ideas and best practice synonymous with a high performance team
• Adhere to Equal Opportunities policy in all activities and to actively promote equality of opportunity wherever possible
• Keep abreast of all legislation and regulations and ensure adherence
• Be responsible for personal development within the area of marketing and current trends that may support job performance
• Undertake such other duties as may be reasonably expected

• Senior management role with  minimum of 7-10 years experience in FMCG industry
• 1st degree from a reputable tertiary institution.
• At least 5 years supervisory experience
• An MBA will be an added advantage
• Must have proven (and demonstrated with evidence) results in achievement driven sales targets and returns of investments
• Must have high proficiency levels in business development, negotiations, market research and sales distributorship management.

• The scope of this role covers fianancial management of the operations of the organization. To include reporting , forecasting , budgeting and account management

• Maintaining all Revenue ledgers
• Daily review and updates of cash registers
• Updates of all outlets revenue ledgers, attending to daily internal audit queries
• Updates the company asset schedule with new purchases according to each class of asset, keep the asset purchase documents for easy referencing.
• Coordinates Departmental purchases with the Store keepers/Store supervisor and handles all the retirements of the weekly purchases with the internal audit and purchase officials.
• Monitoring of all vendors invoices
• supervises asset coding and renumbering.
• Responsible for preparing monthly reports to the management committee.
• Responsible for the management of the treasury function and payroll.
• Management and development of the accounting function designed to monitor and control all aspects of the business; progressing innovative systems development which deliver incisive performance indicators, management information and provide competitive advantage to the company
• Construct and monitor reliable control and fraud prevention systems.
• Responsible for maintaining appropriate insurance coverage.

• Compliance with all Nigerian tax authority requirements.
• Liaison with external auditors, taxation advisers, solicitors and other professional advisers.
• Ensures the company complies with all legal and regulatory requirements

• Provide key inputs for the implementation and management of group budgeting cycle.
• Provide key inputs for the preparation of budgets, forecasts and business plans and continued
• Monitoring& review of performance against them to enable robust reporting of variances to the Board and third party stakeholders

• Should possess a Master's degree in Accounting or Business Administration, or equivalent discipline from a reputable institution with good grades.
• MUST be a chartered accountant
• Must have proficiency is sage and opera software usage
• Hospitality experience will be an added advantage
• Should be a qualified accountant with 7-10 years of PQE.
• Procurement experience would be an added advantage.
• Prior experiences a Controller or equivalent would be an advantage.
• Must have thorough understanding of a comprehensive tool box operational and financial performance methods and processes, preferably in capital intensive industries.

• This role  is responsible for the achievement of sales  objectives within an assigned geographical coverage by assting in outlet activation standards and trade/promotional activations for different clients .
• This role is highly results driven .

• Achivement of  targets  for assigned geographical coverage; ensure Return on Investment on promotional activations and trade asset.

• Builds strong trusting relationships that help them and others perform.
• Keeps informed of coverage strengths and development areas across the geographical coverage.
• Bring the clients purpose to life - Be an ambassador for , good role model for ethics, compliance and reputation.
• Demonstrate pride and deep accountability for bringing the Sales vision to life

• Ensures full delivery of the business target with coverage area i.e.100% achievement of depletion volumes into outlets within assigned open market, market share growth and outlet activation standards fully executed in all called on outlets.
• Ensures listing of innovations and priority brands, and ability to pre-sell total portfolio in the right quantity within assigned outlets; also ensuring that pre-sold orders are fully delivered in time by
• Drive incremental depletion through effective management of promotional activity in assigned outlets
• Reviews outlet database with the Sales Manager on a monthly basis
• Recommends and implements Sales recommendations to drive incremental depletions and counter competitive activities in all outlets within assigned coverage​.

• Minimum of Ordinary National Diploma (OND) or equivalent., first Degree from
• Minimum 5 years' experience working in a similar role in the FMCG sector. prefered canidates should be from companies like or similar to cocacola, procter and gamble or unilver
• Some commercial expertise gained from field sales/consumer/customer marketing is an added advantage
• Basic understanding of Selling capabilities, Outlet activation standards, outlet segmentation, building relationships, persuasive selling and brand passion
• Excellent communication skills - written and verbal
• Good commercial understanding numerical skills, a high level of computer literacy
• Good interpersonal skills
• Fully geographically mobile
• Experienced driver with valid license
• Ability to work flexibly.