Head - Marketing - Chemical/FMCG

Job Title : Head Marketing

Location : Lagos (Nigeria)

Reports to : MD

Job Specification:

- 15+ years relevant experience in Chemical/FMCG Industry.

- Exposure to various ingredients and chemical to various industries that include FMCG, Food, Paint, Pharmaceuticals, Breweries, Homecare, Personal Care & Cosmetics, Confectionaries, PVC Plastic, Printing Ink, etc industries.

- Experience of dealing with multi brand/product Sales & Marketing and trading portfolio preferably at national level in a big Company with proven track record.

- Experience of developing sales strategies, new markets, distribution network, setting up new outlets, etc.

- Corporate work exposure is preferred. Cross-Functional Leadership experience is an advantage.

- Good experience of working in an ERP environment like SAP, Mfg-Pro, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics systems.

- Managing Sales & Marketing organization to ensure achieving targeted sales (both volume and value), market share and profitability budgets for entire product/brand portfolio (both in-house and trading products).

- Ensuring Planning and executing new initiatives and strategies for expanding products market and growth and enhancing distribution width and depth.

- Exploring and identifying innovative sales & marketing channels/avenues/opportunities for products viz OEM Business Development, Home to Home, Go Slow channels, etc and strategizing the mechanism to make them work.

Arvind Saha