Company Info
PepsiCo – In 1965, Donald Kendall, the CEO of Pepsi-Cola, and Herman Lay, the CEO of Frito-Lay, recognized what they called “a marriage made in heaven,” a single company delivering perfectly-salty snacks served alongside the best cola on earth. Their vision led to what quickly became one of the world’s leading food and beverage companies: PepsiCo. Our company is made up of seven divisions: PepsiCo Beverages North America; Frito-Lay North America; Quaker Foods North America; Latin America; Europe; Africa, Middle East and South Asia; and Asia Pacific, Australia/New Zealand and China. Each of these divisions has its own unique history and way of doing business.
1). Sales Associate
Job ID: 123398
Location: Oregun – Ikeja, Lagos
Job Function: Sales
Responsibilities
Major accountabilities for this role include:
- Expanding the frontiers of PepsiCo products in the assigned area, bringing in tangible sales leads monthly.
- Directing the affairs of the hub by leading daily distribution plans for bread and other products assigned for the hub area.
- Being accountable for all sales activities for the hub and ensuring remittances of all cash sales.
- Reaching out to customers through cold calling and ensuring active selling
- Being mindful of cost of selling per loaf; effectively managing the resources available at the hub.
- Liaise with the Credit Control officer/Treasury to ensure adequate reconciliation of hub account.
Qualifications
Key Skills / Experience Required:
- Minimum Tertiary education – Bachelor’s Degree (in relevant field).
- Full understanding of the FMCG business and at least 2 – 3 years in a Sales/Category role within an FMCG organization;
- Cross functional experience can assist in this role e.g. Category, Trade Marketing, Channel/Shopper Marketing.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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2). Marketing Associate Manager
Job ID: 132559
Location: Lagos
Category: Marketing
Job Description
- Perform as a strategic partner in developing LT Category Insight & Strategy. Provide support at all levels (strategic, creative, analytical, coordination) to assist the Senior Marketing Manager: Grains, Foods & Snacks in the definition of PSP.
- Develop AOP portfolio direction for Nigeria Foods from Senior Marketing Manager: Grains, Foods & Snacks and Country GM
- Interpret business strategy and determine innovative solutions supporting strategy implementation. Solutions must be relevant within the Nigeria market
- Lead partnership with local creative agencies, with inputs from Distributor Teams to design & develop market relevant, impactful integrated marketing plans brand activation programs which deliver grains & snacks growth.
- Lead diverse projects and multiple work streams and be familiar with the issues driving innovation, innovation tools and techniques
- Create and maintain the brand information systems and Brand KPIs scorecard, in partnership with Consumer Insights, analyse information and propose action plans to the Senior Marketing Manager: Grains, Foods & Snacks and Country GM.
- Set out clear market and brand KPI’s for each innovation, concepts in partnership with Consumer Insights
- Identify and evaluate ideas in between AOP and PSP cycle plans that are not in plan to maximise competitive advantage
- Design and maintain a knowledge management and asset repository of the brand: facts, ideas, strategies, documents, advertising etc.
- Plan and administer the Nigeria Foods budget, control the A&M W / NW ratios and effectiveness and efficiency scorecard and proposes actions to the Senior Marketing Manager: Grains, Foods & Snacks and Country GM
- Responsible for implementing the Global Brand book & standards and monitor compliance against these (brand stewardship), in both advertising and packaging /brand graphics.
- Be an active mover of identifying winning brand activation ideas within Nigeria market and propose lift & adapt initiatives.
- Own marketing calendars for Nigeria, identify opportunities and synergies in design and execution of the plans
- Has visibility of all packaging design work in Nigeria and elevates to Senior Marketing Manager: Grains, Foods & Snacks and Country GM potential issues
- Lead and direct different cross-functional projects of varied sizes and types concurrently, consisting of marketing, R&D, Supply Chain, Finance, Purchasing and external partners
- Coordinate all cross-functional activities, represent consumers internally and collaborate with leaders in varied areas on allocation across projects and resource planning.
- Align functional team and LT to get buy-in & commitment in order to deliver business objectives
- Lead & coordinate multiple agency partners in order to deliver on set brand objectives
Qualifications
Key Skills / Experience Required:
- Marketing / Business Tertiary qualification (Degree) as minimum
- Previous FMCG marketing experience (8 years minimum within marketing management)
Functional:
- Proven track record of successfully managing Brand engagement programs & achieving sustainable in-market results and long-term brand equity growth
- Strong functional Marketing experience with track record of delivering successful Integrated Marketing Communication programs and delivering AOP’s that deliver brand growth
- Strong strategic thinking and creative skills
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Strong prior experience in any of the Nigeria Foods categories i.e breakfast, bread or sausage roll
Leadership:
- Excellent collaboration & influencing skills in order to navigate a cross-functional, cross-geographical matrix to champion Nigeria Foods agenda in WECA
- Strong evidence of ability to set the agenda & navigate around complex challenges to in order to deliver results
- Balancing competing priorities
- Effectiveness in filtering through & identifying the best ideas to pursue
Knowledge:
- Ideally knowledge & experience of Food categories (e.g breakfast, snacking, bread or sausage roll)
- Strong understanding of local Nigeria perspective
- Ability to work in matrix structure.
Skills:
- Strong functional experience including:
- Excellent skills in uncovering insights that drive strategies for growth
- Creative processes & development of Integrated Marketing Communications
- Ability to create impactful & cost effective marketing support programs
- Management of Creative & Marketing Distributor teams
- Digital Marketing and Digital partnerships
- Experience of creating & launching Marketing integrated programs with high impact in the marketplace, particularly in Nigeria market
- Experience in developing strong innovation programs and best practices
- Experience in developing strong partnerships with multiple stakeholders (internal & external.
Behaviors:
- Passion for Marketing & Communications
- Ability to both envision the future & create compelling vision for the Brand
- Strong creative judgement and ability to assess what ideas can travel across markets
- Resilience to deal with the inevitable knock-backs that occur in WECA
- Agility in finding solutions in line with continuous market changes.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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3). TR Senior Associate
Job ID: 132852
Location: Lagos
Job Function: HR
Relocation Eligible: No
Responsibilities
- Managing third party service providers suc as HMO and outsourced labour providers to negotiate benefit plans and resolve benefit-related issues
- Liaising with the COE team on reward and compensation issues for Nigeria
- Prepare schedules and managing relevant unit to ensure monthly statutory remittances of PAYE, Pensions, Group Life Insurance , HMO etc
- Draft and propose local policies via industry data gathering and support with customization of global ones to suit the Nigreian market
- Evaluating and proposing modification of existing compensation and benefits programs, policies, and procedures as approved for implementation
- Managing internal and outsourced payroll
- Managing third party vendors such as HMO and benefits providers, pension fund adminstrators , Immigration service providers , payroll software service providers etc to manage space and resolve any related isisues
- Managing end to end axpatriate and immigration issues from quota management to compensation , onboarding and liasing with immigration officials
- Provides support to HR Business Partners and all business stake holders , with Reward data
- Implements compensation changes using defined rules (salary changes, variable pay changes, incentive plan change/allocations)
- Managing the performance management cycle, developing and managing incentive schemes, employee wellness programmes etc
- Preparing manning/people budgets, reports, and presentations on Rewards
- Cascade and implement Reward agenda for PepsiCo Nigeria
- Prepares data for insights on compensation and benefits analyses monthly for stake holders
- Managing market end to end market reward process from attraction , retention and performance managment process
- Managing and administering company benefits (cash and non-cash).
Qualifications
Key Skills / Experience Required:
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field
- 4 – 6 years Experience in similar role
- Basic knowledge of compensation and Benefits knowledge according to industries.
- Analytical and Numerate Skills
- Great people oriented attitude
- Deadline driven
- Team player.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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4). Materials Planner
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Function: Not Applicable
Sub-Function: Not Applicable
Job Description
- Manages and ensure availability of locally sourced and imported raw/packaging materials.
- Maintain stock levels of ordered materials as per the agreed stock norms to help in achieving the supply chain objectives whilst optimising working capital and ensuring stock availability at the lowest cost.
- Materials Planning Manager is responsible for the management and communication of material forecasts with suppliers and pro-actively identifying and managing any potential supply constraints.
- S/he also manages supplier relationships and accountability in conjunction with Procurement and resolve materials supply issues or conflict escalations from other internal stakeholders.
Key Deliverables
Materials Requirements Planning:
- Stock is to be managed within working capital targets.
- Ensure regular update and maintenance of MRP Master Data.
- Monitor stock levels and work closely with the Procurement team and suppliers to ensure appropriate stock levels are maintained both on-site and at the suppliers to ensure that service level targets are met.
- Coordinate in conjunction with Procurement on material planning and sourcing activities.
- Keep track of materials usage versus BOM target and flag concerns to stakeholders accordingly.
Manage relationship with suppliers:
- Meet suppliers on a regular basis to identify and manage possible constraints, up to 52 weeks forward
- Work with Procurement to manage and ensure supply consistency and Supplier reliability. Provide data to establish and report Supplier performance rating scores.
Procurement:
- Ensure the timeous delivery of stocks to site and escalate to Procurement where required
- Track Working Capital of packaging and raw materials on a weekly basis.
Requirements
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree / HND in any discipline from a reputable Institution
- Supply Chain (APICS etc) qualification (added advantage).
Experience:
Essential:
- 3 – 5 Years exposure to broad based procurement.
- Working Knowledge of Operations Planning / Supply Chain modelling and optimization
- Experience in managing external parties.
- Experience working and interacting with all levels in a business.
Preferred:
- FMCG experience.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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5). Brand Manager
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Function: Marketing
Sub-Function: Marketing
Job Description
- Brand strategy, including the setting of style guides, brand guidelines, brand vision and value proposition for short as well as long term.
- Carrying out market research in order to keep up to date with customer trends, as well as trying to predict future trends.
- Developing strategies and managing marketing campaigns across print, broadcast and online platforms to ensure that products and services meet customers’ expectations and to build the credibility of brands.
- Analyzing the success of marketing campaigns and creating reports.
- Creating and managing promotional collateral to establish and maintain product branding.
- Managing the budget for advertising and promotional items.
- Analyze brand positioning and consumer insights.
- Measure and report performance of all marketing campaigns and assess ROI and KPIs.
- Monitor market trends, research consumer markets and competitors’ activities.
Requirements
- Candidates should possess an HND / Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline
Essential:
- Minimum of 5 years’ Brand experience.
- Brand awareness – a clear understanding of brands and the marketing mix.
- Proven ability to develop brand and marketing strategies and communicate recommendations to executives.
- Experience in identifying target audiences and devising effective campaigns.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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6). Procurement Manager
Location: Lagos
Job Description
- Leads evaluation and selection of suppliers in terms of quality, service, cost, and capability.
- Procurement of General, consumable Items (MRO Items), AGO, Raw material and capex
- Participates in the development of sourcing strategies.
- Looks for productivity gains, which may include working with Improvement Leaders and Service Center personnel.
- Looks for alternative sources, through individual research, and working with other Buyers, Sr. Buyers, and Executive Buyers.
- Oversees contract implementation and supplier performance/interaction; involved with resolving operational issues.
- Documents issues for quality, service, safety, and supply (into the Sourcing quality data bases) and resolves issues with suppliers.
- Identifies and drives continuous improvement.
- Oversees contract implementation and supplier performance and interaction.
- Negotiates and delivers savings to meet business requirements and company objectives.
- Understands market dynamics, labor rates/market rates, etc. that may impact buy.
- Uses Auction Tools, RFIs, RFQs, RFPs and/or sealed bids.
- Creates leveraged agreements as appropriate.
- Calculates and reports accomplishments in all appropriate systems.
- Direct procurement policies to ensure all items are purchased and delivered within budget and time constraints
- manage vendor and supplier selection process based on price, quality, support, capacity, and reliability
- Develop and manage purchasing budgets and forecasts.
- End to end process knowledge of Import & Export of commodity and consumable items.
- Well Versed with process of EXIM Certification & documentation process.
- Understanding local government EXIM rules and regulation.
Skill Sets / Experience
- Should have passed engineering +MBA preferred from a good institute and have 5-7 years’ experience in handling end to end procurement in a mass manufacturing company.
- Good Hands on Contract Management.
- Experience in DIRECT Procurement of General and consumable Items. (MRO Items), AGO , packaging material and asset purchases.
- Spend analysis.
- high competency level in SAP MM,SAP Ariba.
- Well Versed with process of EXIM Certification & documentation process.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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7). Maintenance Engineer
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Function: MATS
Sub-Function: MATS
Key Performance Matrices
- Optimize utilization of processing and quality resources in the country to derive maximum capacity utilization and efficiencies and to eliminate controllable losses and minimize the impact of non-controllable losses
- Manage external contractors in a cost effective manner – seek to challenge their costs and performance to ensure cost effective yet quality service.
- Through managers, maintain and administer all personnel records and systems relating to employees (excluding records of sickness, absenteeism and holidays, recorded in the General Office).
- Maintain and monitor processes in respect of breakdown and performance. (Running hours; kW/t; capacity per hour against set targets. (KPI) React to variances.
- Ensure hygiene standards in all areas are maintained to the highest standards at a minimum above those required by BRC.
- Through respective managers, ensure the safe keeping of all company agreements, financial instruments etc.
- Ensure the Health and Safety of all subordinates within Company guidelines and current legislation.
- Ensure all functional management are aware of the correct codes of practice, both statutory and advisory, that govern accepted standards of safe operation at all premises. Ensure production plant causes the minimum of dust and noise both internally and externally.
- By regular site inspection and training, ensure full employee awareness of safe working practices and their role in maintaining the required standards. (ongoing exercise)
Requirements
- Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, QEHS, HACCP related certification Job related courses and training
- 8 + years’ experience of handling maintenance, utilities and projects in several jobs as Mechanical / Electrical engineer and project related management.
- Preferably flour milling, pasta processing or any other food processing industry.
Deadline: Not Specified.
How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should use the links below to apply: