GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Nigeria Plc is one of Africa's largest consumer healthcare companies, producing leading brands such as Lucozade, Ribena and Panadol.

GSK is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Head - Customer & Shopper Marketing
Job Location: Lagos
Ref No: 140916-1

Job Purpose/Scope
This job exists to lead the Nigeria Customer Marketing agenda across the portfolio of brands
Responsible for the fulfillment of the GSK’s customer marketing mission in Nigeria.
Basic Responsibilities

  • Lead the delivery of GSK Nigeria volume and value share objectives.
  • Lead the definition and execution of GSK Nigeria strategic choices at the point of purchase.
  • Lead the definitions of categories sales fundamentals- distribution, pricing, shelving and merchandizing strategies and translation into execution choices
  • Develop trade channels understanding and provide retail audit information for decision making.
  • Lead and manage end-end overall activity management from design to execution, tracking and evaluation.
  • Develop trade promotion strategy in sync with brand objectives.
  • Guide set up of merchandising standards across channels from category perspectives.
  • Implementation of perfect punch plans (NPIs)- from customer perspective.
  • Develop persuasive selling sell sheets for the sales force to win with customers and shoppers at MOC.
  • Develop and build the sales capability/capacity to win at the point of purchase

Qualifications & Experience

  • A good first degree
  • Minimum 6-10 years field sales, customer management, customer marketing and people management experiences within the FMCG industry

Mode of Application:
Interested and suitably qualified candidates should click here to apply online.

Application Deadline: 22nd September, 2014.