Job Title: Associate Manager, Stationery, Trade Marketing
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-Time
Main Responsibitlies / Tasks
Trade Marketing Strategy & Planning:
- Build and implement annual Trade Marketing plans by category, channel and customer, aligned with cluster growth objectives and the stationeries acceleration priority in Nigeria
- Translate global and regional brand strategies into locally relevant trade initiatives that drive penetration, distribution, visibility and demand growth
- Adapt plans to Nigerian market specificities: traditional trade dominance, wholesalers, sub-distributors and emerging channels
- Identify growth opportunities to recruit new consumers and increase category penetration: assortment recommendations, visibility programs and channel activation.
Distributor Management & Capability building:
- Act as the distributor's primary counterpart for all Marketing matters (activation plans, POSM, merchandising, trade programs), in coordination with the Business Development Manager, who owns the commercial relationship
- Build strong relationships and ensure alignment on priorities, execution standards and business objectives
- Build distributor marketing and merchandising capabilities through training and best-practice.
In-store Execution Excellence:
- Define and deploy merchandising and visibility guidelines across channels; ensure best-in-class execution of trade initiatives (POSM, activations, promotions)
- Monitor execution quality, improve shopper conversion at POS, take corrective actions where needed.
Budget & Performance Management:
- Manage Trade Marketing budgets with optimal allocation of resources, tracking ROI and continuously improving trade spend efficiency and execution effectiveness
- Track performance of trade initiatives through relevant KPIs and recommend corrective actions.
Cross-functional Collaboration:
- Monitor and analyze market, customer, competitor and shopper data (incl. Nielsen where available) to generate actionable insights
- Work closely with Marketing, Sales and Supply teams to ensure alignment of plans and priorities
- Share market insights, consumer and customer understanding, execution feedback and best practices with regional teams.
Price Monitoring and Market Intelligence Gathering:
- Conduct regular store visits, market walks, distributor check to capture competitor shelf price, promo price and trade offers.
- Share ad-hoc, monthly value chain analysis by channel and competitive activities reports with local management team
- Translate data into what we should do in trade.
Key Performance Indicators
- Sales Growth in line with company’s Rolling Forecast for the region
- Volume & Value Market Share as per targets (when tracked)
- Numeric and Weighted Distribution across priority channels
- On time In Full Marketing plans executions, with results and ROI as per plan, and in compliance with brand standards
- Spend within approved budget with phasing respected quarterly
- In-store execution quality and activation effectiveness with measurable uplift from plans.
Qualifications and Experience
- Education: University Degree in Marketing, Business, Engineering or equivalent
- Experience: Min 5 years of trade marketing experience in an FMCG company.
- Experience in multi-market or distributor-led environment including Egypt is a strong asset
- Languages: Fluent in English, written and spoken.
- Tools: Proficient in MS Office, intermediate/advanced Excel and PowerPoint
- Finance/RGM: Exposure to merchandising, animation and POSM agencies / suppliers. Familiarity with Revenue Growth Management principles, and prior experience in sales or account management with agencies is also valuable.
Application Closing Date
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