Head, Marketing at a Wholly Indigenous Company

We are a wholly indigenous company incorporated in Nigeria in February 2001 with operational offices in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Warri and Abuja. The company is an integrated Logistics Solutions Provider in Oil and Gas Industry and Manufacturing Sect of the economy. The company is a fully licensed Customs Agent with permits to operate in all seaports and airports in Nigeria. In order to drive our objectives, we recognize the need to recruit a result oriented individual to fill the position of:

Job Title: Head, Marketing

Location: Lagos

Key Accountabilities

• Applicants must be result oriented and ready to work in a dynamic and challenging environment.
• Applicants must have cognate experience in the Haulage and Logistics industry
• Responsible for overall target achievement
• Develop new corporate markets, clients and products
• You must be able to establish and manage a marketing/sales team
• Set, agree and achieve budgets with Business Unit managers
• Applicant is expected to have the contacts of large customers and could call larger clients
• Negotiate Sales, Costing & Pricing
• Develop and implement Marketing Strategy
• Conduct Market research from time to time
• Coordination with Marketing & advertising agencies
• Efficiently manage existing clients; aggressively source for and open up new business opportunities.
• Identify new businesses and secure clients for the company
• Follow up and update clients on progress of all ongoing jobs with the company Get feedbacks and reports from clients on how to serve them better Effectively follow up on collection of outstanding debts from customers, Maintain updated database of customers/ clients and sales records.
• Hold weekly marketing/ sales meetings with colleagues.
• Present weekly marketing reports to your supervisor and copy the CEO
• Other tasks as maybe assigned by Management from time to time, The Head of Marketing will be reporting directly to the AGM with a dotted reporting line to the CEO

Key Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor degree in Marketing/ Sales management or related fields (Membership of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria NIMN or related professional body is an added advantage).
• Minimum of 7 years sales/Marketing experience in a similar industry
• Excellent knowledge of micro soft office Word, Excel, PowerPoint (customized) and email (Outlook) skills
• Good project management skills.
• Sound understanding of the principles of marketing.
• Strong understanding of new technologies and how they can he applied to marketing.
• Excellent report writing skills ability to rework technical text for a broader audience
• Team player - works to ensure team goals are met and/or exceeded.
• Good communications skills - fully bilingual (written and spoken) in English and other languages
• Energetic and goal driven
• Be able to operate under pressure and meet deadlines
• Self-driven and interdependent

Application Closing Date
28th June, 2016.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their application letter and CV’s to: [email protected]

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.