Job Openings at Lee & Myles Consulting Limited

Job Brief: Our client is an advertising and corporate communications service provider. They seek to hire a competent Administrative Assistant to provide secretarial and administrative support in a well-organized and timely manner.

You will provide support to staffs, acting with little supervision, anticipating needs while managing the day‐to‐day workflow, client management, preparing materials for meetings and taking minutes, and performing any other duties that may be assigned.

The Administrative Assistant will perform, coordinate and oversee administrative duties while providing an extensive level of support.

Salary: KShs 20,000 – 25,000

Responsibilities

• Act as the point of contact between the company and internal/external clients
• Undertake the tasks of receiving calls, take messages and routing correspondence
• Handle requests and queries appropriately
• Manage office petty cash
• Take dictation and minutes and accurately enter data
• Monitor office supplies and research advantageous deals or suppliers
• Produce reports, presentations and briefs
• Work as a member of the team, willingly providing back‐up support for co‐workers when appropriate and actively supporting group goals
• Manage the office filing system

Job Specification / Requirements

• Proven experience as an administrative assistant or office admin assistant
• Full comprehension of office management systems and procedures
• Working knowledge of office equipment, like printers and scanners and other office gadgets
• Proficiency in MS Office applications including Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritize work
• Attention to detail and problem solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a concise, clear and compelling style
• Produce well thought‐out, professional correspondence free of grammatical and spelling errors
• Time management skills with the ability to multi-task
• Demonstrate ability to maintain confidential/sensitive information
• Works effectively without constant and direct supervision or guidance
• Diploma in Business Management or Administration

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Our client a water bottling company is looking for extremely talented and target driven sales representatives to take charge and drive sales in Nairobi, Kisumu, Mombasa, Eldoret and Nakuru.

The candidates must be based in respective regions/towns or are willing to relocate.

Key Responsibilities

• Undertake direct marketing activities within the assigned region/territory
• Prepare business development and sales action plans
• Source and convert clients
• Schedule sales, promotions and marketing activities
• Plan and participate in sales events
• Develop and maintain a customer database
• Develop and maintain sales and promotional materials
• Make sales calls to new and existing clients
• Develop and make presentations of company products and services to current and potential clients
• Carry out market research and surveys and file reports back to HQ for action where necessary
• Prepare and present sales contracts
• Train clients on products features
• Maintain sales activity records and prepare sales reports
• Conduct regular customer visits
• Respond to sales inquiries and concerns by phone, electronically or in person
• Ensure customer service satisfaction and good client relationships
• Monitor and report on sales activities and follow up for management
• Monitor competitors, market conditions and product development

Qualifications

• Bachelors/diploma in sales and marketing or related field
• At least 3 years’ experience in sales and marketing, trade marketing or merchandising in an FMCG environment.
• Good understanding of Modern and General trade channels
• A natural marketer with a commercial flair
• Understanding of the market dynamics and flexible to adjust to new markets terrains
• Outgoing and willing to work flexibly (willingness to work long hours including weekends) to achieve the set goals.
• Have a winning attitude and able to manage disappointments arising from lost business or missed targets.

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Our client is one of the leading FMCG manufacturers and are looking to hire a Trade Marketing Manager who shall be responsible for brand strategy development and execution.

He/she shall offer support to sales and marketing teams and offer trade perspective that improves the development, planning and implementation of the company’s brand plans, objectives and strategies through effective sales plans and actions.

Ideal candidate is an execution superstar with a knack for details and able to lead multiple teams in diverse national geographies towards achievement of set corporate trade marketing goals.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the category business plan and ensure that category business plans is seamlessly communicated to the field sales teams with clear deliverables.
• Ensure that the field sales team is well aligned to the targets and set actions to deliver on targets.
• Motivate, Train and Coach Trade Marketing team. Develop annual training and refresher training calendar for the team
• Manage the product/category margins to meet the set GP while still maintaining price competitiveness
• Setting and monitoring clear performance objectives for all team members.
• Plan and develop in-store materials (POSM) that delivers clear brand positioning.
• Development of marketing brand strategies and objectives into retail segment plans
• Champion the Commercial Planning process.
• Develop a market research framework and track on competitive position including tracking and analyzing the competitor activities.
• Monitoring, evaluating and advising on Brand/segment volume, trends and dynamics.
• Influence and develop medium/long term trade segment strategy.
• Manage 3rd party merchandising agency and continuously ensure review of standards as per trade needs.
• Influence and direct customer strategy for PR.
• Measure and report on the sales fundamentals of Quality, Distribution, Price, Promotion and Persuasion.
• Develop and co-ordinate customized promotions by segment and major customers. Liaise with vendors and key accounts for their inputs
• Develop and maintain leading edge POS resources.
• Oversee the development of trade strategy review documents and drive the review process
• Take lead in development and execution of performance tracking dashboards
• Trade Research interpretation and development of corrective action plans.
• Assume a pivotal role in forecasting.
• Planning and execution of marketing programs in the trade that will include the managing of all merchandising and events.
• Work with Sales team and the appointed agency to ensure smooth implementation of campaigns in desired mediums i.e. outdoor, in-store.
• To ensure the availability of product through the channel and champion channel management.

Desired Qualifications

• B. Com, Marketing or other business or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated success in in Sales, Marketing and Trade Marketing a busy FMCG environment
• 5 – 8 years’ experience in a commercial role, sales & marketing and/or trade marketing
• Demonstrable people leadership skills
• Strong character with experience in successfully running both modern and general market trade and brand strategies.
• Knowledge of driving performance through merchandising agencies
• Able to drive activities with a lean budget.
• An execution superstar with strong commercial acumen.
• Heavily detailed