Marketing Manager at Maldini Ceramics Limited

Maldini Ceramics Limited is a versatile ceramic tile company with years of experience in the art of fine living. We tend to achieve leadership by developing superior designs for tiles and offering exceptional service in sales and support to bring pride and joy to homeowners, builders & developers, contractors & architects who use our products for high quality inspiring and advanced tiles for floors, walls and exteriors.
The mind-set for delivering innovative products year after year makes Maldini Ceramics Ltd one of the most sought after brand in the Nigerian market.

Maldini Ceramics is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Marketing Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Purpose:
Accomplishes business development activities by researching and developing marketing opportunities and plans; implementing sales plans; managing staff.

Duties:

• Accomplishes marketing and sales human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures.
• Achieves marketing and sales operational objectives by contributing marketing and sales information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans;
• Implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining system improvements; implementing change.
• Meets marketing and sales financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Determines annual and gross-profit plans by forecasting and developing annual sales quotas for regions; projecting expected sales volume and profit for existing and new products; analyzing trends and results; establishing pricing strategies; recommending selling prices; monitoring costs, competition, supply, and demand.
• Accomplishes marketing and sales objectives by planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating advertising, merchandising, and trade promotion programs; developing field sales action plans.
• Identifies marketing opportunities by identifying consumer requirements; defining market, competitor's share, and competitor's strengths and weaknesses; forecasting projected business; establishing targeted market share.
• Improves product marketability and profitability by researching, identifying, and capitalizing on market opportunities; improving product packaging; coordinating new product development.
• Sustains rapport with key accounts by making periodic visits; exploring specific needs; anticipating new opportunities.
• Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends.
• Protects organization's value by keeping information confidential.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Accomplishes marketing and organization mission by completing related results as needed.

Skills/Qualifications:

• Financial Planning and Strategy, Marketing Concepts, Positioning, People Management, Territory Management, Sales Planning, Competitive Analysis, Understanding the Customer, Product Development, Client Relationships, Creative Services.
• Graduate qualification required

Application Closing Date:
2nd April, 2014

Method of Application
Interested candidates should send CVs and applications to: [email protected]