Sales Director at Elkris Foods Nigeria Limited

Elkris Foods Nigeria Limited is a fast-growing (FMCG) Company that produces Swallow/Ball-Foods.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Sales Director

Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Brief

• The Sales Director or Director of Sales & Marketing will lead the company-wide Sales Strategy & Operations
• Provide Leadership to the Sales team for day-to-day tasks aimed at improving organization’s market position and achieve financial growth.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring that the company’s/corporate sales target monthly/quarterly/yearly is met unfailingly
• Develop and execute strategies to achieve sales targets for each product line
• Develop new customer base and generate strategies that grow share of pocket, market shares, improve customer experience and drive growth of all product lines.
• Ensuring finished products are embedded in the markets with key focus on relevant customer targets.
• Supervises all activities of the Trade Market Development/ SalesTeams.
• Day to Day Management - To manage the day to day operations of the company sales operation by providing guidance, encouraging team work and facilitating related professional work processes in order to achieve high performance standards.
• To identify consumer base in given industrial segment, approach and promote the given product range, build the sale and service the account regularly.
• To deal with customer complaints/grievances and follow-up with technical team for resolution and support.
• To coordinate with internal and external parties at the appropriate levels to ensure smooth flow of interaction and transaction.
• To assess the various information tools, identify business opportunities, scope of new product development and pinpoint bottleneck areas i.e. market information report, market threats, and competitor’s initiatives etc. to further increase sales volume, market share and profitability.
• Sales Growth Targets - To ensure Sales Targets are achieved as per assigned product and region/key accounts wise through managing the effective sales strategy and follow-up to ensure accomplishment of sales operational plans.
• Customer Relationship - To maintain good customer base, manager customer relations, facilitate business managers/sales head to organize various business meets/seminars to boost customer engagement.
• To monitor stock inventories in alignment with the budget and re-order level for product as well as packaging.
• As a National Sales Manager you will have the opportunity to be our first impression on all prospective clients in the market. You will open doors to all of our target clients, meaningfully filling the top of the Sales funnel, with a competitive drive to succeed.
• Presenting our services to a range of potential business partners.
• Intensive market research with focus on expanding the company's customer base and identifying new business opportunities within the assigned territory.
• People Management – Manage effective communication by setting individual targets, developing and motivating staff, providing formal and informal feedback on performance and training needs in order to maximize subordinate and department performance.
• To develop second line successor and drive performance through team to take up higher challenges.
• Reporting - To prepare all applicable reports in time for accuracy and in order to ensure that they match the functional requirements, policies and standards

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum of MSc./MBA degree and/or relevant professional qualification is desirable and would be of added advantage
• Minimum of 15 years relevant experience with at least 5years in similar role and organization
• Must have working experience in a Ball Foods(Swallow) / Cereal Company.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should  forward their Cover letter and Resume to: [email protected] using the job title as the subject of the mail

Application Deadline  18th August, 2025.