General Manager, Operations at Mount Olive Nigeria Limited

Mount Olive Nigeria Limited is an FMCG Company that promotes, markets, sells and distributes food items such as flour, noodles, pasta, rice, and lots more.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: General Manager, Operations

Location: Ilorin, Kwara
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• GM Operations will ensure a smooth flow of the company’s products, delivered efficiently within a set budget across all the company’s locations.
• He will be involved in developing new sales leads, improving the existing operations, and exploring new business opportunities as well as marketing the current portfolios of the company.

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead the execution of operational strategies.
• Identify, create and develop new market opportunities, taking the lead in constructing a robust and successful business proposal that secures new sales deals and long-term business relationships.
• Set and achieve key performance targets for sales, delivery, cost, expenses, and other measurements of operational performance.
• Support and lead company product sales, growth, and continuous cost and quality improvements in the business.
• To formulate performance measures, parameters, and targets in line with the business objectives and agreed every year on a performance review with targets set for the subsequent year.
• Manage all sales-related activities covering setting and strict monitoring of sales targets and ensuring accurate delivery of products in all sales channels.
• Ensure timely collection of the company’s outstanding monies from the customers by all sales teams.
• Minimized sales returns/ damaged goods and short expiry goods by monitoring returns.
• Developing a depletion plan and avoiding overstocking the Point of Sales.
• Communicate operational/ sales results, and activities to the Executive Management and provide recommendations and plans for ongoing improvement.
• Develop and maintain excellent rapport with key stakeholders such as clients, vendors, etc.
• Representing the company at trade exhibitions, events, demonstrations, and other related activities.
• Frequent market intelligence, timely update and present competitor’s activities and provides market feedback on new products, price changes, new launches, etc. to the top management.
• Ensure areas of responsibility are delivered in a way that is consistent with the company’s goals and financial -cost improvement plans.
• Maintain a high level of confidentiality on current business activities, short and long terms plans, proposals under scrutiny, and any other activity related to the business.
• Any other duties that may be assigned.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess a Master's Degree with 5 - 14 years relevant work experience.
• The role requires an experienced manager with a background in finance, a flair for innovation and ingenuity, process efficiency, and new business development.
• Excellent experience in sales, marketing, and managing people is a clear asset.
• The ideal candidate will be energetic, appropriately qualified, and experienced in the sector. He must be willing to be flexible, a great communicator, and able to work with a wide range of stakeholders.
• The role is one that will enable the right person to grow the business and develop their own leadership and management skills further, as part of a growing group of successful companies.

Employee Attributes:

• Self-starter with plenty of initiatives to innovate, change or develop old ideas into new opportunities and enjoys a fast-paced exciting environment with to achieving results.
• Organized, meticulous, and confident.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to understand market and business intelligence to make informed choices about business development.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong leadership qualities, team player with excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent business acumen and financial skills. Must be grounded in Finance.
• Ability to develop and lead operational teams and passion for service delivery.
• Always ready to travel with or without notice.

Salary
N200,000 - N250,000 Monthly.

Application Closing Date
10th September, 2022.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter to: careers@mtolivenig.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.