Territory Manager, Asaba
Unilever
Remote
Function: Customer Development
Reports to: Area Sales Manager, Warri Area
Scope: Local
Location: Asaba, Nigeria
Terms & Conditions: Full-time; Permanent
Job Purpose
Territory Manager, Asaba, is responsible for driving secondary sales by making Unilever’s products available and visible to the consumer for the assigned territory. Managing distributors and distributor’s sales force and ensuring optimal implementation of company’s trade activities and merchandising plans across all relevant channels.
Responsibilities
Right Stores
- Expand coverage to all viable stores in keeping with territory plans
- Ensure that effective coverage is as close to 100% as possible
- Constantly be on the lookout for new store openings
- Improve controlled coverage through Sub-D and Mainstream
- Ensure use of HHTs to meet all store specific tasks
- Ensure right merchandizing tasks are executed by a merchandiser supported by DSR
- Maximise the number of perfect stores under your coverage
- Ensuring orders are fulfilled in full on time
- Improve suggested sell in quantity and right assortment for expansion in store
- Providing the right frequency of service and category level or common DSR to book orders
- Manage KD’s and customer’s complaints
- Drives 100% achievement of all KPIs within the assigned territories and all relevant channels.
- Optimization of TTS (Trade Term Spend)
Building Distribution Network by Leveraging Brands
- Driving core of the core/distribution drives/new launches/promotion packs/improve shelf availability for key promoted SKUs / the right assortments into relevant stores
- Drive numeric and weighted distribution (More stores, on shelf availability and Share of Shelf)
- Driving success of channel programs with relevant stores and ensuring desired objectives are achieved.
- Propose relevant territory-specific channel activities to area, regional and channel managers.
- Execution of perfect stores programmes to win at point of sales
- Ensure implementation of in-store objectives during coaching and accompaniment of DSRs.
- Regular coverage of all stores on the beat plan
- On time delivery of stocks to stores
- Addition of new stores that may open in the market
- Satisfactory levels of secondary CCFOT
- On time trade claims settlement to stores
- Ensuring quality of products on shelf and at KDs
- Competitive Intelligence
Territory manager is the eyes and ears on the battlefield and hence must always be on the lookout for competitive intelligence like:
- 2–4 years of experience in Sales.
- Strong analytical and digital skills.
- Has excellent knowledge about territory management.
- Has a strong rapport and relationship across Route-to-Market value chain
- Strong Business & Finance Acumen
- Great insights about the business in territory including what are the key challenges and opportunities for Unilever.
- High integrity in doing business
- A problem solver and approachable leader
- Excellent negotiation and persuasive skills
- Ability to interpret sales trends & analysis (data analytics)
- Produces consistent results
- Care Deeply: We care deeply about how consumers experience our brands every day, everywhere; about our people’s growth and development, and our impact on the planet. We care about our performance, to a point where it hurts when we don’t win.
- Focus on What Counts: We ruthlessly prioritise what truly matters, and so do fewer things brilliantly. We set clear goals & direction and recognise others for maximum impact.
- Stay Three Steps Ahead: We think boldly and creatively to make breakthroughs in performance. We are always curious and confident - anticipating and staying ahead of consumer needs and external trends, to beat the competition.
- Deliver with Excellence: We deliver excellence in what we do at pace. We take personal ownership and hold each other to account – always finding a way to do what we said we will do.