Visibility Manager at Guinness Nigeria Plc

Guinness Nigeria Plc has a clear aspiration of being recognized as the most celebrated business in the country. This will require a step change in our focus on shoppers/consumers and customers; fundamentally different relationships with our commercial partners and the total organisation putting a much greater customer focus into everything we do. A key contributor to the success of the Guinness Nigeria PLC strategic plan is an effective customer marketing team demonstrating industry leadership- translating trade strategy and brand game plans into a world class commercial plan – winning the visibility war at the point of purchase and meeting both trade and consumer needs.

Guinness Nigeria PLC - We are continuously interested in talented individuals who want to progress their careers and make a difference to our business.

Guinness Plc is recruiting to fill the below position:

Job Title: Visibility Manager

AutoReqId: 41616BR
Function: Sales
Location: Lagos
Level: L5M1
Reports To: Head Category Development

Purpose of Role
Deliver Sustainable Competitive advantage for GNPlc by:

• Supporting the definition of the GNPlc Portfolio Visibility strategy
• Translating the visibility strategy into Point of Sale Material (POSM) choices/Provide overall solution of Moment of Choice
• Managing effectiveness of End to end POSM process and budget; from design choices to in market execution
• Enabling Joint Value creation with customers via GNplc POSM solutions
• Winning at the MOC (Moment of Choice) via Brilliant POSM execution

Accountabilities
Strategy:

• Translating the visibility strategy into Portfolio POSM choices
• Provide insights that guide category teams in strategic decisions

Design:

• Develop design solution for permanent POS materials.
• Work with category managers, marketing and design agency to come up with POSM design solutions for the categories.
• Incorporate Shopper/consumer/customer insights and category drivers for each category into the design solution. Collaborate and align with CM for respective categories.

Role Requirements

• Category knowledge capability. Developing sound, executable capability on Category and Channel trends, shopper/consumer Insights and their translation into POSM design & Choices
• Insight Based POSM solutions by Channel. Translating sales & Category Drivers into POSM Design and choices that enables GNplc win at retail.
• Developing and providing the selling concepts (winning customer proposition) that enables filed sales to secure customer support for GNplc POSM solutions and deployment
• Activity Management. Design trade plans for visibility related activities with Cross functional teams to win with customers & channels and enable the sales force execute brilliantly.
• Coaching. Visibility training for Customer Marketing and field sales teams

Qualifications, Experience and Skills Required

• A strong track record in field sales & customer marketing experience
• Strong capability and able to coach others in Insights, Sales Drivers, Outlet Segmentation and Managing Relationships
• A good understanding and strong capability to coach others on customer marketing fundamentals& Below The Line (BTL) process.
• Minimum 5yrs commercial experience in field sales & customer marketing
• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Good track record on previous roles

Head office maximum 75% of the time, in trade minimum 25% of the time.

Application Closing Date
Not Stated

Method of Application
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