Marketing Manager at Tomato Jos Farming and Processing Limited

Tomato Jos is a private equity backed, fast-growing social enterprise located in Kaduna, Nigeria, that believes in the power of local production for local consumption. Our company aims to supply 10% of the processed tomato market in Nigeria within the next 5 years. We source tomatoes from smallholder farmers within our network and make high-quality branded consumer products for Nigeria and West Africa. We currently operate a 500Ha commercial farm and run a successful smallholder program with over 500 farmers. In 2020, the company built a tomato processing facility and we will conduct our first production run in Q1/Q2 2021, with an aim to launch our first retail packaged product later this year. Tomato Jos has four key values: We care about the company; We care about each other; We are problem solvers and  We are humble.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Marketing Manager

Location: Kaduna
Employment Type: Full-time

Key Responsibilities

• Drafting communications strategy, merchandising, training tools and related activities for the product.
• Managing all exclusive marketing, selected advertising and promotional activities across all sales channels.
• Creating promotional forecasts and tracking promotional performance while working closely with sales to develop key account specific initiatives.
• Planning marketing and promotion timelines for the all brands in close coordination with the sales team.
• Acting as brand custodian; ensuring that brand saliency is maintained at all points.
• Liaising with brand team to develop brand thematic promotion plan in line with brand strategy.
• Monitoring the promotion progress with timely tracking on sales order, budget, display materials, off-take performance.
• Identifying and developing programs and tools to increase brand presence, market share and improve customer satisfaction
• Monitoring and evaluating marketing programs and activities to measure effectiveness and recommendation of improvements as needed.
• Developing, proposing and managing the promotion expense budget.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience / Skills Required for the Job

• A First Degree.
• 5-7 years of work experience, 5 of which should be a managerial role in a Marketing position in an FMCG
• Strong Market Knowledge.
• Knowledge of Consumer Insights.
• Category Management.

Expected Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies:

• Strong interpersonal and effective verbal and written communication skills
• Familiarity with Food channels across Nigeria
• Territory Management Skills (customer/outlet mapping, call/route plan, volume planning, Market Analysis).
• Proficiency in building and maintaining Strong Customer Relationships.
• Must possess good analytical and computing skills.
• You are able to present products and ideas with ease, confidence, and persistence.

Application Closing Date
6th May, 2022.