Senior Customer Manager-Anglophone West Africa

Company Description

Kimberly –Clark is a fast moving goods (FMCG) global corporation that has recently come into west Africa market.

Headquartered in Dallas, we lead the world in essential for better life with well-known global family and personal care brands that are sold in more than 150 countries with nearly 56,000 employees worldwide, high caliber talents are required at senior management levels as the company establishes strong foot prints in Sub-Saharan Africa, the work environment is designed to foster personal and professional growth, reflecting a sense of community that nurtures innovation.

Job Description

To develop and implement customer and to distribute business plans that will deliver budgeted turnover, profit growth, share and innovation targets by category and /or brand within the region, including appointing, managing, leading and directing a framework of distributions and wholesalers to increase numeric and weighted distribution and ensuring the effectiveness of field sales activities.

Develop and implement a customer and/or distributor business plan that is aligned to the customer’s and or distributors needs, region business and West Africa objectives marketing and category plans and will deliver budgeted growth targets by categories.

Support the development of customer specific category/and or shopper marketing strategies.

Implement, monitor and evaluate agreed POP (pricing, promotions, ranging and merchandising) plans on a monthly basis.

Liaise with logistics, planning, debtors and filed sales/distributors to ensure that the customers service needs are met.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree with at least 8 years selling and marketing experience, of which 2 years must have involved senior management level interaction (either internal or external) within a company operating in the FMCG market.

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