Commercial / Category Associate Beverage
- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification BA/BSc/HND
- Experience 4 years
- Location Lagos
- Job Field Sales / Marketing / Retail / Business Development 
Core Responsibilities :
- You will play a crucial role in driving business development, revenue, and profit by building relationships with prospective clients and converting them into satisfied customers.
- Working closely with the Category Commercial Lead, you will contribute to achieving company goals and growth targets.
- Your responsibilities will include delivering engaging presentations, managing client communications, and driving customer acquisition.
Core Responsibilities:
- Follow and achieve departmental sales goals on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis. Implement strategies to drive sales growth and meet or exceed targets.
- Partnership with Brands to drive distribution of products in the on-trade/off-trade channel.
- Actively seek out new sales opportunities through methods such as cold calling, networking, and leveraging social media platforms.
- Identify and engage with potential clients to generate leads and expand the customer base.
- Preparing and delivering appropriate presentations on products and services.
- Strengthen relationships with existing clients and contacts, exploring opportunities for upselling or cross-selling. Proactively seek out potential clients, establish new business, relationships, and nurture them to generate future sales.
Job Requirement
- Bachelors degree in business, marketing, communication, or related fields with a minimum of 4 years of experience in sales, preferably in a B2B food and/or hospitality industry.
- Proven track record in B2B sales and conversion.
- Must have existing good relationships with lounges, clubs or restaurants that are easily convertible.
- Excellent numerical, interpersonal, communication and people management skills
- Tech savviness and a willingness to work with/sell SaaS.
- Proven ability to meet and exceed sales Targets.
- Proven track record of successfully managing customer relationships
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
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Method of Application
- As a Procurement Associate, you will engage with various teams to plan, investigate, and execute procurement initiatives.
- Leveraging your organisational and communication skills, you’ll balance workloads and expectations while analysing market trends and identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Your collaboration with stakeholders and SKU development will ensure successful procurement strategies.
Responsibilities
- Execute procurement objectives to ensure continuity of supply, whilst ensuring minimum lead times and maximum business cost savings.
- Contribute to the preparation of inventory buying plans to guarantee supply efficiency
- Issue purchase orders and follow-up with invoices, delivery, credit negotiations, supplier invoices, claims, credit notes and logistics tracking
- Monitor market trends, price changes, forecast and initiate speedy ad hoc purchases where necessary.
- Ensure transparency, efficiency and accountability in all transactions conducted on behalf of the business
- Ensure timely deliveries of products within stipulated quality to the warehouse
- Track suppliers’ performance to ensure the company’s established SLA’s for suppliers are met, including but not limited to delivery times, product quality, and prices
- Collaborate with stakeholders to carry-out all procurement and contracting activities including pre-qualification, negotiation and drafting contracts.
- Ensure supplier satisfaction by maintaining good supplier relationships, keeping vital records and updating supplier information as required
- Ensure departmental objectives and company goals are met
- Advise senior management on strategy to improve overall procurement operational efficiency
- Ensure proper records are kept within the appropriate channels to guarantee seamless departmental operations
Job Requirements
- 2+ years in procurement and supply chain, with a focus on Food and FMCG
- BA/BS – business, hard science, or technical degree
- Self-motivated and adaptable person with a strong service orientation and do what it takes attitude Action oriented and results-driven.
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves and do whatever is necessary; manager/owner mentality and an entrepreneurial drive.
- Excellent verbal and written communication abilities: must effectively communicate with
- technical and non-technical people. Passionate about generating big, creative ideas for
- online media, growing the business, and working with advertisers and agencies to build innovative products
- Excellent project management and organisational skills
- Ability to prioritise workload with the leadership team and communicate status and risks to delivery effectively, without fail
- Detail Oriented
- Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities
- Competent in online communications/resources
- Ability to develop clean and targeted documentation, including process flows and standard operating procedures Excellent written communication skills
- Passion for working in a high-growth, entrepreneurial environment, with the ability to demonstrate personal commitment and drive to set and exceed high standards