General Manager / Managing Director (Food and Beverage) at Best Search Recruitment

Best Search Recruitment is a partnership based company of highly experienced international recruiters with over 20 years industry experience.

Our consultants are focused on locating hard to find talented individuals for reputable companies world wide.

Best Search Recruitment Limited - We are looking to recruit an General Manager / Managing Director (Food and Beverage) for our client in Lagos.
 
Job Title: General Manager / Managing Director (Food and Beverage)

Location: Lagos

Job Description:
If you are, or know of, an experienced, entrepreneurial and passionate consumer brand builder and general manager who yearns to have the autonomy to build and manage exciting brands & products, please read on as this is an incredibly unique opportunity to lead a high growth start-up consumer product business

As the MD / GM, you will report to the Board of Directors and your key responsibilities will include:

• Finalizing business strategy, launch plan and marketing/sales plans
• All general management efforts related to the new product line launch
• Inciting, fulfilling and managing consumer demand and selling channels
• Developing and maximizing sales, market share, profit & growth goals
• Managing external partners for all cross-functional areas including marketing (PR, promotions, etc), sales (retailers, distributors, etc), product development (designers, formulators, etc), production (co-packers, ingredient suppliers, etc) and logistics (warehousing, transportation, etc)
• Owning the P&L
• Identifying, evaluating and driving new products, channels & initiatives to maximize brand & market opportunities
• Building a team

About You

• Self-starting leader who excels and thrives in high-growth, roll-up-your-sleeve entrepreneurial environment (i.e. need to have a start-up mentality – which doesn’t necessarily mean direct start-up experience, it means that you yearn to be a leader in building this type of company)
• Passionate about consumer products and building a consumer brand and experienced in doing so, ideally with food/beverage brands
• Possess unique ability and desire to think and execute in both a strategic and tactical way. No job is too big and no job is too small but all will need to be done by you (of course you will build out the team over time)
• Experienced in launching a new consumer brand or product
• Results oriented, but not at the expense of people; people oriented but not at the expense of results
• Understands capital efficient means of consumer and trade marketing and driving retail sell-through
• Strong analytical practitioner and equally strong creative mindset
• Sound understanding of operations, marketing, sales and customer service
• A team player who understands the importance of relationships and collaboration, both internally and externally
• Excellent organization and prioritization skills
• Ability to self-motivate and to motive others
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple parties across functions
• Desires to build a company with strong, people focused values

Qualification

• MBA preferred
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in Nigeria (brand building/general management in consumer products, ideally non-alcoholic food and beverages)
• Unparalleled people & communication skills; uncompromising business & personal integrity; unabated entrepreneurial spirit

Application Closing Date:
30th October, 2014

How To Apply:
Qualified and interested candidates can send their CVs to: [email protected]