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Consumer Market Knowledge Associate Manager at Procter and Gamble Plc

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:28:00 +0000

Job Description

General Profile/Performance Expectations

Incumbent has broad professional knowledge and skills, acquired through extensive practical experience or academic qualification. To succeed in CMK, ability in Leadership and Thinks and Acts Decisively are key.
Candidate should also demonstrate i) proficiency/independence in building own functional mastery and ii) passion for understanding consumers both qualitatively and quantitatively and then translating this in to action.

Scope

The candidate will have accountability for category and geographical consumer and market knowledge for Grow Africa Markets. This should be translated in to business building recommendations. They will also have accountability for building their personal and CMK mastery.

Job Requirements (per regional CMK definition):

Business Contribution :

· Understand the business problem/opportunity, convert it into a research objective.

· Work with more senior managers and expert resources to choose the best research tools and tests to address the problem/opportunity, culminating in recommending research design.

· Analyze and interpret data in an objective, accurate, and high quality manner using appropriate analysis, integration/synthesis, and tools. Learn to make recommendations on how to maximize the potential of the opportunity being researched.

· Analyze and interpret data from secondary/external sources to determine market and consumer trends.

· Ensure that business partners (Marketing, R&D, CBD, etc.) know what consumers and/or shoppers/ customers are saying by proactively seeking, analyzing and sharing learning.

· Help identify need for additional research and analysis based on the business context.

Category Understanding :

· Gain a foundational understanding of the market and consumer in terms of market size, growth, key segments, consumer habits, practices, attitudes, etc. based on existing data available. In customer/ shopper area, gain fundamental understanding of customer, retail industry trends and shoppers.

CMK Techniques:

· Understand the range of quantitative techniques available to handle various business situations. Apply appropriate techniques with assistance from manager. Exposed to at least one study on each major technique in their field, viz. MDO research.

· Gain knowledge of the global technique and category standards so that own study designs utilize global standards whenever possible and adapt/design good local standards where needed.

· Learn about research execution and gain basic understanding of suppliers’ role, MDO-Operations role, and execution challenges.

· Define data output needs and align with management and supplier on how data will be delivered.

· Gain exposure in experience creation and delivery; assist manager in the experience creation by leading execution of elements of the experience; always attend, and often summarise/capture learnings for sharing across business team.

Resource Management:

· Train self on techniques.

· Track project spending vs. proposal/budget.

· Acquire skills on time management, effective presentation and data sharing skills, persuasive communication, as required.

· Able to prioritize own and team work to deliver against agreed targets/deadlines on a quarterly/annual basis.

Success Driver Expectations:

· Leadership: Is an ‘expert’ resource to Grow Africa E-MOT team, leading business recommendations. Has ability to influence team, as well as to build their capabilities.

· Thinks and Acts Decisively: Demonstrates ability to i) integrate Knowledge and Thinks Strategically and ii) to analyse information and solve problems. Understands the final business objectives and identifies / creates effective solutions to achieve them. The incumbent will proactively look for alternative solutions and ensure the solutions link in and align to other processes/priorities. Acts as consultant and adviser to more senior managers / business partners.

· Collaboration: Builds internal and external networks to promote own and/or team effectiveness. The Associate Manager will works with all sections of the CMK function as well as outside suppliers and distributors. He/She works will independently work with peers and the management of his/her assigned business unit under supervision of the manager.

· Communication Skills: Able to make effective presentations/written communications that result in transfer of knowledge and influence / support to the decision making processes.

· Capability Building: Able to demonstrate independence and pro-activity in both building own capabilities and those around them (peers or direct reports). This should be an area of passion.

· Embraces Change: “Grow Africa” is a very big project and being worked in a very dynamic environment. Candidate should be agile to changes and able to move themselves and their organization forward with speed. They should also be comfortable working in an organization where you need to make fast decisions, based on deep consumer/shopper insight, but with limited data.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification of a Bachelors’ degree or equivalent with good academic results.

Good Written and Oral English Skills

Proven Demonstration of Leadership and Analytical Skills.

Other Requirements

Languages: Speaks French Fluently

Travel: Needs to be flexible to frequently travel within Grow Africa Markets

When applying, please respond to the question “How did you hear about this job?” with the option of “referral”.

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Procter & Gamble Vacancies for Graduates: Assistant Brand Manager

admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 07:18:00 +0000

Procter & Gamble Nigeria is recruiting Graduates for the position of Assistant Brand Manager
Job Description
ASSISTANT BRAND MANAGER -MKT00002241
Description
During the first 12-18 months of your career, some of your responsibilities will include marketing plan development to identify specific marketing tactics that build on consumer and customer insights to deliver overall business objectives and strategies. You will also be using your skills to analyze the business, in addition to financial, competitive and research analysis, and research planning. Beyond that, additional responsibilities will include

(1) Developing Plans and Initiatives (forecasting, strategy/concept/packaging development and product/marketing qualification);
(2) Advertising (strategy/creative brief development, copy evaluation, copy clearance, commercial production and media planning);
(3) Promotion (promotion/pricing planning and strategy and promotion/pricing execution);
(4) Consumer/Customer Training (consumer decision making, customer operations, customer decision making and market segmentation);
(5) Complex Business and Financial Analysis; and
(6) Interpersonal Projects (coaching/training, recruiting, multi-functional teamwork).

Required Attributes
- Need to have the thinking and solution skills, able to take different pieces of data, analyze and propose a solution.
- Is a good team team-player and leader.
- Has the skills of a strong collaborator to work in a team environment.
- At the same time can display leadership enabling him/her to take the team forward towards a single direction.
- Has an entrepreneurial mindset

Qualifications
- Minimum Qualification of a Bachelors’ degree or equivalent with good academic results.
- Good Written and Oral English Skills
- Proven Demonstration of Leadership and Entrepreneurial Skills.

Location: Lagos

Application Deadline: Until Position is taken

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Jobs in Nigeria for Fresh Graduates: Demand Planner Wanted at P&G

admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 07:01:00 +0000

Procter & Gamble Nigeria is recruiting Graduates for the position of Demand Planner
Job Description
Demand Planner (West Africa)-SNO00000157

Description
Job Purpose:
To provide a competitive edge and speed to market by meeting customer and consumer demand faster, more reliability at lower cost than our competitors. This will be achieved via predicting our demand accurately and in a meaningful way for the supply chain.

Job Scope:
The Demand Planner is located in the HQ in Lagos Nigeria and plays an important role in his/her Multifunctional Team (Marketing, CBD, Finance). S/he leads his/her Team in the forecast and estimate generation process and manages the S&OP cycle, importantly, s/he leads the Weekly Demand Control Meetings, driving the business understanding and the rootcausing of Sales and Shipment deviations from the estimates. As such, the Demand Planer plays an important role in providing the Business Team and the Management with the data, which are bases for the Management decisions.

Forecast generation
Analyzing and understanding past trends of his/her forecasting objects
Gathering and validating assumptions and quantifying their impact on volume
Providing an accurate and timely 18-month volume forecast.
Gaining the alignment to the Forecast
Sharing and working with the regional planning network and using it to further develop and improve the local systems and processes
Driving continuous improvement of the forecasting process through the use of Weekly Monthly and yearly assessment as the case may be, why-why analysis, 90 days action plan execution.

Weekly Demand Control
Monitoring actual sales and shipment vs. Forecast and recognizing “normal” (expected) and “abnormal” (unexpected demand) vs. the agreed forecast.
Revising forecast when necessary on weekly basis via WDC, clarifying variances within the forecast vs. actual, understanding implications, adjusting the forecast as necessary and then communicating this to the plants via Supply Planning Manager and working out alternatives in case there exists a constraint on the capacity.

Important Skills:
Thinking / Problem Solving
Strong data analyses skills, understanding of trends, able to translate past into future, spot any unusual trends etc. Demand Planner must be comfortable to work with complex data and comfortable to work with the Forecasting system (GDF).

Communication
As s/he works with people from different functions, and across levels, must be effective in passing the information, i.e. tailoring the information to the audience.

Collaboration
Collaboration and being in touch with the others is essential for the success of the Demand Planner, as forecasting is the multifunctional task and can’t be done successfully in the isolation.

Technical Mastery
As the work involves adherence to the Processes and is highly dependent on the system (GDF), the know-how is a must for the success, thus must be gained fairly quickly. This involves also understanding the Planning Objects and Market dynamics.

Operating with Discipline
As the work is run on given schedules, the high level of Operating with Discipline is requested, to meet all the needed deadlines and to ensure the smooth process.

Qualifications
- Minimum Qualification of a Bachelors’ degree or equivalent with good academic results.
- Good Written and Oral English Skills
- Proven Demonstration of Leadership and Analytical Skills.

Location: Lagos

Application Deadline: Till Position is Taken

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Procter & Gamble Nigeria is recruiting Graduates for Systems Analyst

admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 06:45:00 +0000

Procter & Gamble Nigeria is recruiting Graduates for the position of Systems Analyst
Job Description
Systems Analyst – IDS00000743
Description
Overall Job Purpose :
This position is to develop the Country Information Systems Technology and Business Control Applications in line with the P&G Global and Regional standards, and to provide the local users with the procedures, tools, techniques and training necessary to operate with their computer systems. Further, this position must ensure computer systems, related devices and telecommunication infrastructure within their area of responsibility are available and properly performing at the agreed service levels.

Responsibilities :
- Main point of contact for local user in area of responsibility/Departments for implementation and support of computer and telecoms equipment.
- Agrees with users on computer service levels & standards, and makes sure, directly or through helpdesk people, they are fulfilled.
- Installing, monitoring & tuning the hardware, operating system and telecoms tools to meet the agreed service levels & allow implementation of MS projects.
- Keeps the computer platforms in the Plant/Head Office in line with the European/MEAGE standards, and at the same time with the Nigerian budget requirements.
- Generates and manages projects to continuously improve the MS service to the end-users and minimize the related cost.
- Coordinates and supervises the helpdesk group, assigning tasks and responsibilities, providing training and coaching, ensuring their working time availability, monitoring/ maximizing their performance, solving their priority conflicts.
- Organizes the Data Center processes and schedules, and ensure they are kept tidy and successfully auditable at any time.
- Leads/ participates in work process engineering efforts with the PS organization, and leads design, implementation, testing and training of new MS applications at the Plant.

Qualifications
- Minimum Qualification of a Bachelors’ degree or equivalent with good academic results.
- Good Written and Oral English Skills

The following will be a plus:

1. Management of Information Systems
2. PMI Certiication
3. Information Systems Design

Location: Lagos

Application Deadline: Till Position is Taken

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Procter and Gamble: Financial Analysts.

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:01:00 +0000

The P&G community consists of over 138,000 employees working in over 80 countries worldwide.

Procter & Gamble Nigeria is recruiting exceptional graduates for Financial Analysts.

Description

Procter & Gamble Finance & Accounting offers you the opportunity to experience a breadth of assignments as well as the flexibility to meet your individual career objectives as we work together to build our businesses. Finance & Accounting is unique within Procter & Gamble since we work across every area of the business, both domestically and globally.

Our role within P&G is to provide leadership to business decision making as well as manage the Company’s financial and accounting affairs to maximize long-term profits, cash flow, and total shareholder return.

Our assignments offer you the opportunity to make an immediate impact on the business, while you continue to build your analytical, technical, and leadership skills.

Overall job purpose

* Analysis or process creation that supports the decision-making and execution of business priorities.

Responsibilities

* Finance and accounting member of a multi-functional team.
* Determine financial attractiveness of new product launch/pricing moves.
* Determine best timing for production capacity upgrade.
* Forecast brand manufacturing costs.
* Expertise in analytical tools, budgeting and accounting, understanding of company systems/ processes and of functional roles and interactions.
* Financial & risk evaluation of new initiatives
* Portfolio analysis
* Initiative tracking; competitive analysis
* Pricing & cost structure analysis

Qualifications

* Minimum Qualification of a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent with excellent academic results.
* Excellent numeric skills and good use of spreadsheed applications
* Not more than one year Post NYSC work experience
* Excellent communication skills.

Job: Finance & Accounting

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