Requirements
What we are looking for:
- First Degree in relevant course
- Minimum 10+ years consumer/retail experience in Nigeria (preferably RTM) General expertise includes
- Deep knowledge of !he Nigerian retail ecosystem
- Experience in building materials a secondary priority
- Project management experience
Critical Knowledge:
- Strong Leadership, drive and ability to lead large-scaIe change management
- Customer Centric approach and understanding
- Ability to manage large cross-functional project team
- Finance Knowledge (i.e. Income Statement, Balance Sheet etc.)
- Solid analytical skills to run/interpret complex and detailed analysis
- IT skills to develop, use and maintain analytical tools
- Good communication and negotiation skills
- Business development
Functional Competencies:
- 10+ years of experience
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel, Visio and Project
- Detail-oriented
- Effective communication skills
- Professionalism, courteousness, and ability to work within a dynamic office atmosphere
- High level of initiative and ability to work in both individual and team environments
- Handles stressful situations and deadline pressures well
- Must be able to work in a complex and fast moving environment
Leadership Competencies and Behaviours:
- Have a clear path to drive a project till completion
- Know the business and its trends
- Creative
- Communicate clearly and effectively
- Mobilize people
- Inspire commitment
- Strong Business drive
Leader of overall D2R project design and execution:
- Key Interface with any 'outsourced' data/analytics partners - e.g. BCG
- Validate all key elements of final D2R design (e.g. sales, logistics, marketing, finance, etc)
- Responsible for creating and executing against roll – out calendar
Set strategic agenda of each functional area of the project:
- Active participation in all marketing meetings with other directors
- Active participation in key logistics meetings
Managerial Responsibilities:
- Support Head Of Business Development in recruitment of a skilled team for an optimal management of the model
- Support HOBD to manage 'outsourced data/analytics partners e.g BCG
- Day to day management of all core team members
- Responsible for Core Team PMO
- Includes weekly updates to Project Leadership
- Regular updates to Steering Committee - e.g. KPI tracking
Who you'll be working with:
- All members of the Commercial team (i.e. Marketing, Sales, Logistics/Supply Chain/IT)
- Corporate Commercial Performance or other Corporate