Head, Commercial at Eatwell Retail

Eatwell is a retailer of a wide variety of raw, and value-added meats, seafood, fruits, and vegetables. Our products include wholesale and retail size cuts of beef, lamb and pork, diverse poultry items such as chicken, duck, quail and wide selection of seafood to include fish, crabs, calamari, and octopus.

Semi processed items like burger patties, meat balls, sausages, pre-marinated kebabs, are also offered, alongside ready to eat snacks. Our lean meat and superfoods section for the health conscious is supported with our in house food advisory staff. We offer convenience across all our sales channels and you can experience this by either walking into our store or shopping via any of our shopping channels.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head, Commercial

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos

Overview

• The recruiter is a food service company with the vision to change the narrative of food business in Nigeria. The underlying concept of our business is healthy and convenience food prepared in a clean hygienic environment for the various palate in Nigeria.
• Although the primary role is commercial which will include purchasing/procurement, stores/ inventory and accounts, the successful candidate will be part of the management team carrying out functions with other members of senior management to ensure the proper running of financial, administrative and operational goals of the business.

Responsibilities
You'll need to:

• Collect, interpret and review financial information
• Predicting future financial trends based on operations of the company
• Reporting to management and stakeholders, and providing advice on how the company and future business decisions might be impacted
• Producing financial reports related to budgets, account payables, account receivables, expenses etc.
• Developing long-term business plans based on these reports
• Reviewing, monitoring and managing budgets
• Developing strategies that work to minimize financial risk
• Analyzing market trends and competitors
• Have a strong purchasing and negotiation capabilities
• Understand the workings of stores and inventory

Working Hours:

• Hours of work are generally long, should be willing to work evenings, weekends and on public holidays.

What to Expect:

• The environment is fast paced, with an emphasis on delivering good customer service in a limited time frame.
• The work can be both physically and mentally demanding.

Qualifications

• Male or Female
• Minimum of First Degree in any discipline related to Economics, Finance or Accounting
• Minimum of ten (10) years post qualification experience with at least 3 years is a structured senior management role.
• Must have previous roles of middle or senior management in supermarket management, food retail, hospitality or manufacturing.
• An analytical mind
• Negotiation skills and the ability to develop strong working relationships with vendors and suppliers.
• Strong IT skills
• Commercial and business awareness
• Good communication skills – both written and verbal
• A keen eye for detail and desire to probe further into data
• Ability to stick to time constraints

Skills:
You'll need to have:

• Entrepreneurial mind set
• Excellent with numbers, Microsoft office package, particularly excel
• Strong communication skills, tact and diplomacy
• The ability to lead and motivate teams and influence people
• Self-motivation and ambition
• Commercial awareness
• Enthusiasm and the ability to learn quickly
• Good organizational skills
• Energy and stamina, as well as resilience
• A results-driven approach to work
• Decision-making and problem-solving skills.

Application Closing Date
20th October, 2021.