National Sales Manager at Montaigne AH Limited (Montaigne Place)

Montaigne Place is a leading luxury retail company that offers an exquisite range of cosmetics, fragrances, skincare, lifestyle products, spa and wellness services. Established in 1995, Montaigne Place is a trading name of Montaigne AH. Ltd. began its journey in the Nigerian beauty sector as exclusive agents and distributors of the prestigious Clarins brand.

Today, Montaigne Place operations extend across retail, wholesale, spa & wellness, with its flagship retail division, Montaigne Place, boasting a network of Forty (40) outlets throughout Nigeria. These outlets are strategically located in Lagos, the country's commercial hub, as well as in Abuja, the capital city, and Port Harcourt, along with other prominent cities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: National Sales Manager

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilties

• Directs and supervises Sales Managers on a solid reporting line basis, and other sales personnel under his/her team on a dotted line, to achieve/revenue and expense objectives.
• Assigns territories and accounts for Sales Managers and the entire Wholesale Sales Team.
• Resolves different customer problems and participates in important negotiations with key customers.
• Typically manages other individual contributors and/or managers.
• Owns the business goals & revenue objectives for the Retail business & the innovation business, with the heads of these units reporting into this role
• Directs and manages the work of the Head of Retail Operations, Head of Innovation/e-commerce on a solid line basis
• Responsible for the increasing sales revenue through the design and implementation of appropriate strategies for the sales business units (retail, wholesale, innovation and e-commerce)
• Drive the adoption of analytics in the e-commerce and retail business as core to our competitive strategy
• Use data and market intelligence to accurately forecast sales and set appropriate performance goals
• Work with marketing to implement appropriate in bound marketing activities to increase retail traffic (footfalls and eyeballs) into company owned retail outlets
• Set and oversee the directions for the company’s e-commerce front and back-end operations
• Responsible for full P &L or contribution margin for the sales of the organisation
• Revenue accountability is associated with a direct quota and the typical revenue responsibility will be determined by the COO
• Assist in the recruiting, training and development of all Sales unit managers and team members
• Responsible to instil a sales & service culture across all outlets and sales business units to ensure standard methodology adoption by the team that guarantees a uniform shopping experience for customers.

Requirements

• Master`s Degree
• 10+ years of progressive, successful sales experience, with at least 3 years of that in Sales Management as a leader & manager of a sales force. Field sales experience is a plus
• Retail chain management is a plus with experience either in FMCG, consumer packaged goods (CPG), Cosmetics, Health & Oersonal Care related industry will be an advantage
• Experience with e-commerce and with the operational side of running an e-commerce business is required
• Indirect Sales & Channel Sales Management experience especially in the FMCG business
• Experience in implementing Route-to-market for wholesale and retail operations
• Experience with Organised Retail (Key Accounts) Sales as part of specialist channels
• Experience with salesforce automation or CRM is essential to success.

Application Closing Date
22nd May, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: montaigneplacehr@gmail.com using the job title as subject of the mail.