The Role:    REGIONAL COMMERCIAL MANAGER The successful candidate will be required to:

• Develop sales plan and strategy for effective growth, increase turnover and penetration of product in the regional market.
• Maintain and develop relationship with existing customers (Key Accounts Management)
• Analyse the competitive environment to ascertain product performance against competition.
• Channel strategy development.
• Ensure effective Stock management to maximize sales.
• Ascertain prompt inter-depot stock transfer to meet urgent stock needs.
• Manage team and individual performance through regular reviews, monitor objectives and ensure development needs are identified and executed.
• Analyse sales figures/data, interpret trends to facilitate planning and forecasting of future sales volumes.
• Manage Debt recovery.

The Person: The right candidate must:

• Possess a university degree, in any discipline.
• Have MBA preferably in Marketing
• Membership of Nigeria Institute of Marketing.
• A minimum of five to seven (5-7) years experience gained from a FMCG environment.
• Have strong numeric/data analysing skills.
• Possess good Analytical and People management skills.
• Be flexible and able to adapt to changing market and business conditions.
• Have well-developed commercial awareness and customer focus.
• Have a CAN DO attitude, exhibiting our core values – COURAGE, ACCOUNTABILITY, NETWORKING, DRIVE and ONENESS
• Have good Microsoft office computer skills especially in Ms Word, Excel and Power point.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates would be contacted.

Closing date: 05 Jan 2010

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