Customer Managers: West Africa (Nigeria)

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To be successful in this role, you are required todevelop and implement a customer and/or distributor business plan that isaligned to the customer’s and/or distributor’s needs, KC business & GBAobjectives, marketing and category plans, and to deliver budgeted growthtargets by category (to be done jointly with customers and/or distributorswhere appropriate).
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Customer Manager - REF CMG

• West Africa (Based in Nigeria)

You should continually monitor and analysecompetitor activity, pricing and customer performance against the agreed objectives,to ensure that targets are achieved. The ideal candidate will ensure that K-CSAhas the right product offering in the market place relevant to its competitorsand specific to the market and consumer’s needs, coupled with redefininggeographic territories as and when the business requirement presents itself,and constantly look at new and innovative ways to improve the K-CSA route tomarket for the indirect channel.

This position requires

• A 3-year tertiary qualification (Bachelor’s degree/diploma), coupled with at least 3 years’ experience in selling and/or marketing, of which 2 years must have involved senior management interaction.
• You need a proven track record of delivering customer satisfaction, and successful management and implementation of development plans within the FMCG market.
• The ability to communicate in French would be an added advantage to your application.

Key Performance Indicators include:Achieving business targets including: Volume, NSV& IOP, Share, SupplyChain, POP by customer and new SKUs, Personal development and Teamsdevelopment.

Key Interfaces: External customers anddistributors, GM EWCA, GBA Leader & Team, Field Sales Team, Marketing Team,Supply Chain Team - demand planning and distribution, Sales support anddebtors, IT and call centre, Customer Analyst, Financial/Business Analyst,Pricing Controllers.

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Ensure to check the reference number correspondingwith the heading, when submitting your application. Closing date: 18 April2011. No agencies please.

Kimberly-Clark reservesthe right not to fill this vacancy. An application will not automaticallyqualify any candidate for an interview. If you do not receive any responsewithin 2 weeks from the closing date, please consider your applicationunsuccessful.