Sales Merchandiser
Agege, Lagos
Posted more than 30 days ago
- Company:
- Seven-Up Bottling Company
- Company Description:
- Seven-Up Bottling Company Limited is one of the largest manufacturing companies in Nigeria, producing and distributing some of the nation’s most- loved beverages in the country like; Pepsi, 7Up, Mirinda, Teem, Mountain Dew, H2oH!, Lipton Ice Tea and Aquafina premium drinking water. SBC has recently entered into Home & Personal Care category with the 2SURE brand and launched its first product, a Hand & Surface Sanitizer. Seven Up boasts of nine bottling plants with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities strategically located across various regions in the country.
- Contract Type:
- Contract
- Experience Required:
- 1 year
- Education Level:
- Technical
- Gender:
- Any
- Number of vacancies:
- 1
Job Description
Location: Agege, Lagos
Job Type: Contract
Sector: FMCG
Job brief
Seven-Up Bottling Company is hiring for an experienced merchandiser who will help get the right product in the right place, time, quantity, and price.
Responsibilities:
•Plan and develop merchandising strategies that balance customers’ expectations and company’s objectives
•Analyse sales figures, customers' reactions, and market trends to anticipate product needs and plan product ranges/stock
•Collaborate with buyers, suppliers, distributors, and analysts to negotiate prices, quantities, and time-scales
•Maximise customer interest and sales levels by displaying products appropriately
•Produce layout plans for stores and maintain store shelves and inventory
•Forecast profits/sales and plan budgets
•Monitor stock movement and consider markdowns, promotions, price changes, clear outs, etc
•Build constructive customer relationships and team with channel partners to build pipelines and close deals
•Remain up to date with industry’s best practices
Requirements:
●Proven working experience in merchandising, preferably in sales of Beverage
●Highly creative with experience in identifying target audiences and devising campaigns that engage, inform, and motivate
●Up-to-date with the latest merchandising trends and best practices
●Excellent verbal and written communications skills
●Strong listening, presentation, and decision-making skills
●Commercial acumen and the ability to “decode” customers
●Minimum of OND qualification