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Vacancies at Seven-Up Bottling Company Limited

Seven-Up Bottling Company Limited is one of Nigeria’s top manufacturers, producing and selling some of the country’s most popular beverages, including Pepsi, 7Up, Mirinda, Teem, Mountain Dew, H2oH!, Lipton Ice Tea, and Aquafina luxury drinking water. SBC has debuted its first product, a Hand & Surface Sanitizer, under the 2SURE brand in the Home & Personal Care sector. Seven Up has nine bottling operations with cutting-edge production facilities strategically situated around the country.

1) Regional Sales Manager

Location: Benin, Edo

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

  • The Regional Sales Manager is to ensure effective and efficient management of sales operation through prompt order generation and delivery of products to customers.
  • They are to ensure safety and judicious use of company properties in the sales department.

Responsibilities

  • The Regional Sales Manager is responsible for leading the sales and distribution strategy for products sold through Distributors and other customers within the assigned territory.
  • Build and maintain strategic partnerships with customers and drive customer satisfaction through superior service and execution.
  • Achieve agreed distribution level of all SBC products and surpass KPI targets within assigned territory.
  • Drive total profitable growth in accordance with both long range and annual sales plan.
  • Assist in the delivery of key business metrics (i.e. Category Share) in a manner that is consistent with the strategic direction of the business.
  • Handle a large sales team & develop them by building right skills through coaching & motivating them so they have appropriate sales capability to deliver their objectives.
  • Grows level of customer satisfaction, maintains win/win business relationship, and ensures effective communication with all key buying influences.

Qualifications

  • A Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Marketing course or any relevant field. Membership of relevant professional bodies.
  • Minimum of 5 years beverage sales experience in territory and distributor management with a proven track record
  • A post graduate degree in a relevant field will be an advantage.

Application Closing Date
30th November, 2023.

Note: Only qualified candidates will be contacted.

2) Territory Development Officer

Location: Benin, Edo
Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

  • The Territory Development Officer is responsible for implementing the company’s overall sales strategy.
  • They will be involved in selling products, goods and services to customers and clients.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and develop relationships with existing customers in person.
  • Conduct market research to identify selling possibilities and evaluate customer needs.
  • Promote our business success by implementing the cascaded annual business strategy.
  • Execute sales and trade marketing product display and merchandising techniques to ensure efficiency.
  • Ensure direct report covers the assigned route and report daily.
  • Monitor direct reports sales Performance
  • Set up meetings with potential clients to negotiate and close deals.
  • Gather feedback from customers or prospects and share with internal teams and ensure prompt resolutions to such feedback
  • Submit daily sales reviews and reports to the line manager
  • Ensure the availability of stock for sale.
  • Execute the route to market strategy.
  • Stay up to date with the latest sales trends and best practices.
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Qualifications

  • A Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Marketing or any relevant field. Membership of relevant professional bodies.
  • 3-5 years beverages sales experience in territory and distributor management with a proven track record
  • A postgraduate degree in a relevant field will be an advantage

Application Closing Date
30th November, 2023.

3) Asset Care Manager

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

  • The Asset Care Manager will be responsible for developing and executing the plant maintenance strategies in accordance to global best practices to ensure asset reliability and availability within the best optimum cost.

Main Responsibilities

  • Establishes, monitors and reinforces control on maintenance strategy execution in plant in alignment with country strategy
  • Organises and schedules annual overhaul of production lines and facilities
  • Improves efficiencies by increasing preventive maintenance across the plant and to minimise breakdowns and reduce mean time between failures.
  • Develops business plans providing productivity improvement and stretchy targets for cost efficiency
  • Ensures implementation of basic cycle maintenance, lubrication, cleaning and inspection (CIL) and instills these principles to be part of the culture of operators and technicians.
  • Ensures proper upkeep and prevents loss of the tools and equipment in the engineering department.
  • Take lead in change management for the engineering/maintenance department related to people structure or role changes, technology enhancement, regulatory and company initiatives on productivity.
  • Ensures that their key customer – production and management are provided with prompt and reliable service.
  • Builds maintenance teams’ capabilities through implementation of training and development programs, ensures IDP’s are in place and executed for all direct reports.
  • Ensures training programmes are attended by all nominated team members. Follows up implementation of leanings
  • Drives innovation in production equipment by ensuring continuous process improvement and exploring global and industry benchmark and employees input
  • Listens to and encourages employee recommendations and implements the ones delivering values quickly

Qualifications

  • A minimum of Bachelor of Engineering Degree (B.Eng.) or HND in Mechanical / Electrical Engineering.
  • 8 – 10 years relevant hands-on FMCG operation and maintenance experience.
  • At least 3 years’ experience in a beverage bottling company in a managerial capacity.
  • Experienced in budgeting and people management
  • Knowledge of bottling operations: Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Environment, Engineering, Health and Safety
  • Knowledge of CMMS, EXIM, MP2 or MaintEdge, SAP PM, Navision
  • Must Possess CMRP CERTIFICATION or similar Engineering certification will be an added advantage.
  • Experience in plant manufacturing operations, project planning & implementation.
  • Previous new equipment or line installation or extension could be an advantage.
  • Understanding of business case/cost benefits analysis preparation and basic financial analysis tools.
  • Ability to influence situations without direct control of resources.
  • Proven competencies with budgeting procedures and management of costs.
  • Good understanding and experience of current WC manufacturing methodologies.
  • Good understanding of HQSE modalities and codes.
  • Good understanding of GMP and GHK (5S) standards.
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Application Closing Date
30th November, 2023.

4) Electrical/Automation Engineer

Location: Kano
Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

  • Responsible for the project design of instruments and electronic equipment as well as the implementation of related projects to ensure completion at the desired timeline.
  • Responsible for services needed by the plants in terms of the troubleshooting, maintenance and spare parts needed to ensure continuous operation and better performance.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure writing and maintaining program backups and software for all equipment in the plant.
  • Conducts calibration of all electronic instruments such as transducers and maintains all electronic equipment in the company such as electronic bottle inspectors, fill height detectors, COBRIX, and PLCs.
  • Lead regular inspections for automation and electrical components of the PET line and ensures line maintenance are carried out by the team as per maintenance plan.
  • Develops a list of critical electronic spare parts that will be available to prevent stoppages of the production lines/utility. Plans for timely requisition and acquisition of the needed spare parts, with diligence to keep parts inventory levels to the minimum.
  • Effectively communicate to management any critical actions needed to restore the condition of the equipment to 100% reliability.
  • Develops and ensures compliance to the maintenance program for all instrumentation and electronics.
  • Plan and ensure seamless executions of annual maintenance and cleaning of all electronics components.
  • Builds and reinforces relationships with Production, Quality Assurance, Production Planning and relevant government regulatory agencies.

Qualifications

  • A minimum of Bachelor of Engineering Degree (B.Eng.) or HND in Mechanical / Electrical Engineering.
  • 3 – 5 years relevant hands-on FMCG operation and maintenance experience.
  • At least 3 years’ experience in a beverage bottling company in a managerial capacity.
  • Experienced in budgeting and people management
  • Knowledge of bottling operations: Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Environment, Engineering, Health and Safety
  • Operational planning expertise/experience
  • Must Possess CMRP CERTIFICATION or similar
  • Engineering certification will be an added advantage.
  • Experience in plant manufacturing operations, project planning & implementation.
  • Previous new equipment or line installation or extension could be an advantage.
  • Understanding of business case/cost benefits analysis preparation and basic financial analysis tools.
  • Proven competencies with budgeting procedures and management of costs.
  • Good understanding and experience of current WC manufacturing methodologies.
  • Good understanding of HQSE modalities and codes.
  • Good understanding of GMP and GHK (5S) standards
  • Good oral communication, influencing and relationship skills.
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Application Closing Date
30th November, 2023.

5) Warehouse Operations Specialist – Raw Materials

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

  • To ensure proper stock storage, issuing, documentation and accountability.
  • To maintain proper and optimal warehouse layouts, ensure proper stock storage, issuing, documentation and accountability to support with smooth production runs.

Responsibilities

  • Supervise the receiving, offloading and storage of raw materials from Vendors, Central Stores, and other regions in stores.
  • Supervise the issuing of all raw materials to production following FIFO and other stock items to users.
  • Supervise the posting of all raw materials and other stock SRV out of Navision.
  • Supervise the daily count of all raw materials, prepare the daily and weekly raw materials report and publish for all use
  • Prepare daily raw materials aging report for local management and HO use.
  • Monitor re-order level for all raw materials in use.
  • Supervise the daily, weekly and periodic stock count of all other stock items for proper accountability.
  • Supervise and maintain GMP/GSP in Raw Materials and other stores.
  • Supervise the posting of TRV into Navision and SRV out of Navision.
  • Monitor and supervise the issuing of all production spares to users from production store.
  • Supervise daily, weekly and periodic stock count in the Raw Material stores.
  • Attend to all internal and external audit request and issues.
  • Warehouse Reporting

Qualifications and Skills

  • Minimum of a First Degree (HND / B.SC) preferably in Social Science or Analytical discipline.
  • Minimum of 5 years’ cognate experience
  • Relevant professional certification is an added advantage.
  • Stakeholder Management: Ability to engage with key internal and external stakeholders.
  • Business Knowledge: Working knowledge and understanding of warehouse operations, processes, policies, and systems.
  • Stock Reconciliation and an ability to organize warehouse outlay.
  • Numerical Proficiency: Ability to access, use, interpret and communicate mathematical information and ideas quickly.
  • A demonstrated ability to:
    • Work, coordinate, control and supervise others on the job.
    • Work under pressure
    • Stand and work long hours.

Deadline: 31st October, 2023.

How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should use the links below to apply:

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