Merchandising Manager
All Business Units - Lagos
The Role: Merchandising Manager
The successful candidate is required to:
- Develop merchandising priorities (POS, visibility) by channel ,by cycle and by quarter.
- Develop internal and external layouts (planograms) by channel.
- Create a POS materials catalogue and management systems for storage , ordering and compliance.
- Manage the POS budget and evaluate the impact of POS to maximise ROI.
- Develop POS materials for key initiatives and negotiate best possible sources and terms.
- Develop merchandising tracking mechanisms to measure effectiveness on shelf.
- Conduct merchandiser recruitment, training and management including detailed journey planning and assessment.
The Person: The successful candidate must:
- Possess a University degree with a minimum of eight to ten (8–10) years work experience in an FMCG organisation.
- Have good track records on previous roles.
- Possess the ability to sell wining ideas to cross functional colleagues on opportunities for brilliant market execution.
- Be a computer expert especially in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Be thorough, accurate, giving attention to detail in all aspects of work.
- Show excellent interpersonal relations skills.
- Posses a CAN DO attitude, exhibiting our core values – COURAGE, ACCOUNTABILITY, NETWORKING, DRIVE, ONENESS.
Please note that only short listed candidates will be contacted.
Closing date: 24 May 2011