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Obasanjo Holdings Limited Recruiting
South Established some 31 years ago, Obasanjo Holdings Ltd, has grown to become, one of the largest and most successful, groups of companies, engaged in commercial, large scale agriculture, and agro allied businesses, not only in Nigeria, but also in some other countries of Africa.

Through a carefully planned organic development process, the Group now has substantial enterprises engaged nationwide, in, amongst others, basic agriculture poultly farming animal husbandry, fish farming, rabbitry, feed mills. chicken and livestock processing and packaging industries. It also has a number of industrial starch and glucose manufacturing entities. Its agricultural research establishment is about the most successful in Africa, having produced several patented and patentable results, which have become commercially successful. Thcse include the African continent’s tirst set of pure lines of broiler breeds, called “Obamarshall”and layer breeds, named “Obalayer” breeds. The Group now has a workforce of nearly 7, 000, well motivated and loyal employees, a majority of whom, have been with the Group for over 20 years.

As part of its “next level”, corporate transfonnation initiatives, two important vacancies have arisen, for the positions of Regional Marketing and Sales Manager, North, and Regional Marketing and Sales Manager, South.

Job Title: Regional Marketing and Sales Managers, North and South.

The Jobs
Reporting to the Group Executive Director, Marketing anSales, each of the two Regional Marketing and Sales Managers, will have responsibi lity for the following, amongst others:
- Overall responsibility for the effectiveness of all marketing and sales activities, throughout the region andin the adjoining countries in West and Central Africa
- Submission to Group Senior Management, and defence of marketing and sales quarterly and yearly forecasts, budgets, plans, strategies and resource requirements;
- Maintenance of effective and protitable business relationships with intra-group and external customers;
- Brand management superior, proactive sales promotion. and the attainment of growth targets, and on-the-supermarket-shelf benchmarks, as agreed with Management;
- Development and sustenance, of a cost-effective, region-wide, Market Intelligence system;
- Training, development, deployment and effective supervision and control of the regional marketing and sales personncl, in an cnvironment of high passion, impcccable integrity and high ethical standards;
- Establishment and continuous improvement ot: efficient marketing and sales record keeping, furnishing of periodic. timely, accurate and reliable performance data, planning statistics, market outlook and market intelligence, to the Group Head Office;
- Intensive engagement and collaboration with supplier companies, customers, and staff, towards the development of new and protitable products, and improvements to existing product recipes, pricing, packaging a.na or branding:
- Serving from time to time, as a member of Multi-Disciplinary Teams of Experts (MTEs), established to offer agricultural projects consultancies, to governments and authorities within Nigeria and beyond.

The Person 
Each applicant should be aged between 35 and 40, possess a Masters degree, a. tirst class or upper second class degree in any discipline, along with a recognized professional qualiHcation, plus a minimum of 5 years marketing experience in similar position and marketing of meat products, in a tirst class establishment. Ability to converse in more tban one main Nigerian language, and or in French, will be an added advantage.

Remuneration 
Each position carries a large amount of authority, a conducive working environment together with an attractive pay package, an official car and a generous rent subsidy.

Application Deadline is 24th August 2010

Method of Application 
Suitably qualified candidates, should send their applications titled “LOP/OHL.340″ including their current earnings, and uptodate Curriculum Vitae, to: [email protected]

Each application will be treated in confidence and applications received will be acknowleded