Retail Sales Manager at Guinness Nigeria Plc

Guiness Nigeria Plc - We are Guinness Nigeria, member of Diageo Plc the world's leading premium drinks business with an unrivalled collection of beverage alcohol & non-alcohol brands across the Spirits, Wine & Beer categories.

Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks business with an outstanding collection of beverage alcohol brands across spirits, beer and wine. We are continuously interested in talented individuals who want to progress their careers and make a difference to our business.

We are recruiting to fill the following position:

Job Title Retail Sales Manager

AutoReqId: 41157BR
Location: Nigeria
Function Sales
Level: L6 (MS1)
Reports To: Territory Development Manager

Nigeria Context
Nigeria is the 2nd largest economy in Africa. With the largest population in Africa, a growing middle class and a large number of drinking-age consumers, it has the second largest beer market in Africa The beer market in Nigeria is a vibrant one, making up about 96% of all alcohol sales. The average per capita beer consumption is still only 10 litres a year, a sixth of the rate in South Africa (the largest economy in Africa), meaning the potential for growth remains huge, especially given that Nigeria has a population of about 170m people.

Guinness Nigeria operates a Total Beverage Business (TBB). A key contributor to the success of the GNPLC strategic plan is an effective & flexible field sales force demonstrating industry leadership in both volume driving & brand building activity

Purpose of Role:

• To support GNPLC’s business objectives through the effective management of designated sales territory with a focus on high value outlets including implementation of all sales activities/programmes in the retail sales territory
• Responsible for the account management and activation of high value outlets and hypermarkets
• To spot sell to fill sales gaps in the outlets (across the entire portfolio) and to pre-sell

Top Accountabilities:

• Ensures achievement of QDVPPP sales drivers for Territory
• Ensures sales out of distributors/market share growth are achieved via monitoring the RRS scheme, excellent execution of promotions. Ensures promotional activity is in the right outlets and well managed. Has to keep and update a database of outlets within the territory.
• Ensures at a minimum, once a quarter reviews of RSE, SR & VSR routes, inclusion of new outlets.
• Manages Recommended Price Compliance in outlets and ensures the retail redistribution standards are adhered to by distributors
• Ensure effective customer/ business development to counter competitive activities in these outlets

Has accountability for POS materials, Chillers, Light signs etc deployed in retail outlets within sales territory

Intouch Responsibilities:

• Use of the Intouch PDA as a tool for monitoring and improving individual Sales Targets, Share of Shelf, Distribution Targets & Call Targets.
• Ensuring that correct and up to date Customer details, Contacts, Outlet Types, Outlet Segmentation and Call Frequencies are gotten and sent to the Intouch Team for the purpose of updating the Customer Information from time to time.

Qualifications and Experience Required:

• Graduate with minimum 2 years commercial expertise gained across Sales / Consumer Marketing or Sales Management.
• Direct experience of Diageo Way of selling capabilities with a focus on Sales Driver execution at the point of purchase (QDVPPP), Outlet Segmentation and Managing Relationships including structured call, persuasive selling and brand passion.
• High level awareness of the application of Health & Safety Standards
• Good communication skills –written and verbal
• Good IT skills
• High degree of integrity
• Good inter personal skills
• Geographically mobile.
• Healthy and physically fit.

Experienced driver with valid license

Barriers to Success in Role:
Essential to spend time in the Field with customers and consumers-essential to stay in touch with the market and the competition
Unwillingness to flex schedule to align with business hours of retailers and distributors.

Flexibility Working options:

• Based in a defined geographical area.
• 100% Field Based

Low level of drive or personal leadership

Application Closing Date
6th May, 2014

How To Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here and apply online