Head, Marketing

Application Deadline Jun 28, 2016

Key Accountabilities
Applicants must be result oriented and ready to work in a dynamic and challenging environment.
Applicants must have cognate experience in the Haulage and Logistics industry
Responsible for overall target achievement
Develop new corporate markets, clients and products
You must be able to establish and manage a marketing/sales team
Set, agree and achieve budgets with Business Unit managers
Applicant is expected to have the contacts of large customers and could call larger clients
Negotiate Sales, Costing & Pricing
Develop and implement Marketing Strategy
Conduct Market research from time to time
Coordination with Marketing & advertising agencies
Efficiently manage existing clients; aggressively source for and open up new business opportunities.
Identify new businesses and secure clients for the company
Follow up and update clients on progress of all ongoing jobs with the company Get feedbacks and reports from clients on how to serve them better Effectively follow up on collection of outstanding debts from customers, Maintain updated database of customers/ clients and sales records.
Hold weekly marketing/ sales meetings with colleagues.
Present weekly marketing reports to your supervisor and copy the CEO
Other tasks as maybe assigned by Management from time to time, The Head of Marketing will be reporting directly to the AGM with a dotted reporting line to the CEO
Key Requirements
Minimum of Bachelor degree in Marketing/ Sales management or related fields (Membership of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria NIMN or related professional body is an added advantage).
Minimum of 7 years sales/Marketing experience in a similar industry
Excellent knowledge of micro soft office Word, Excel, PowerPoint (customized) and email (Outlook) skills
Good project management skills.
Sound understanding of the principles of marketing.
Strong understanding of new technologies and how they can he applied to marketing.
Excellent report writing skills ability to rework technical text for a broader audience
Team player – works to ensure team goals are met and/or exceeded.
Good communications skills – fully bilingual (written and spoken) in English and other languages
Energetic and goal driven
Be able to operate under pressure and meet deadlines
Self-driven and interdependent