Area Manager, Public Health - Nigeria

Vestergaard Frandsen is a rapidly growing company specialized in complex emergency response and disease-control textiles. We are guided by a unique Humanitarian Entrepreneurship business model, the "profit for a purpose" approach that has turned humanitarian responsibility into our core business.
Our innovative products and concepts include PermaNet® long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito bed nets and curtains, ZeroFly® insecticide-incorporated plastic sheeting, and LifeStraw® water filters. Vestergaard Frandsen’s newest offering, CarePack®, provides a set of evidence-based preventative interventions to improve the health and lives of HIV positive individuals. These tools are all specifically designed to prevent the waterborne, vector-borne and neglected tropical diseases which disproportionately affect the developing world.

We are headquartered in Switzerland and have offices in the USA, UAE, India, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Indonesia. We work in tandem with the United Nations, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), National Ministries of Health, charitable organisations and commercial distributors, to ensure our lifesaving innovations reach those most in need.

AREA MANAGER, PUBLIC HEALTH – based in Nigeria

As our new Area Manager for Public Health, you will be responsible for growing the business of Public Health product lines in the assigned area (specific regions) within Nigeria. The position reports directly to the Regional Area Manager, Public Health, Nigeria.
Responsibilities

As the Area Manager, you will:-
Implement Vestergaard Frandsen’s Public Health strategy

• Achieve overall annual budget for assigned territories and assist with preparation of budgeted revenue / targets for VF’s Nigeria Public Health division
• Map relevant key stakeholders in Public Health in assigned area
• Build and maintain good, strong and benefiting relationship with allocated institutional clients, international organisations, NGOs and other relevant stakeholders; develop and regularly update their database
• Prepare objective driven travel plans executing and reporting with detailed analysis of the visits with a proposed way forward
• Network and lobby within operational and compliant levels in donor organisations and procurement agencies
• Assist with planning of marketing activities for assigned area
• Monitor and analyse market trends
• Responsible for receiving requests, issuing quotes, securing order, coordinate final delivery and secure timely payment.

Personal profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health or related discipline
• Masters in Business Administration, an added advantage
• 3-5 years sales experience Public Health / Pharmaceutical / Water and Sanitation
• Strong sales skills / good technical background in sales and distribution
• Able to nalyse problems effectively and solves complex issues. Consider the long term impact and anticipate future consequences and trends. Create new insights and generate innovative solutions
• Build relationships and networks; work through and with others. Communicate and negotiate effectively and persuasively at senior levels of organisation or government
• Undertake and be results oriented. Take charge, show self-motivation and ambition for personal and professional achievements. Have a competitive drive to get things done
• Able to interact cross-culturally and thrive in multi-cultural environment
• Well organized and able to interpret and draw relevant insights from various resources and methodologies
• Able to work under pressure, proactively and with a sense of urgency; Ability to set priorities and follow through on commitments
• Able to cultivate an ‘everything-is-possible’ attitude, breaking habits and challenging assumptions
• Able to work with precision and commitment to data driven quality output
• Able to act rapidly to customers, partners and colleagues

If you possess the above qualifications and the drive to meet the challenges, please send your cover letter to [email protected] enclosing your CV, a day-time telephone contact, names and contacts of three referees to reach us by August 31st 2011. We will only respond to electronic application and to shortlisted applicants.