Managerial Positions at Sundry Markets Limited

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Sundry Markets Limited owns and operates Marketsquare Supermarkets (www.marketsquareng.com) - Nigeria’s emerging grocery retailer. Our first store commenced trading in December 2015 while efforts are underway to put a store in every major city of the country. We are recruiting to fill the vacant positions below:     Job Title: General Manager, Ecommerce Operations Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers Job Description

• The General Manager, Ecommerce Operations will be responsible for developing and managing the company’s online sales and presence.
• The job holder will also oversee all the company’s retail business and be responsible for their profitability and financial performance.

Responsibilities Key Responsibilities includes:

• Managing the e-commerce site from build to implementation and beyond, proposing further developments and upgrades as may be required to meet corporate objectives from time to time.
• Responsibility for managing the merchandising of the sites, tracking and responding to online sales progress, product availability and margins to maximise sales growth and profitability.
• Undertaking sales and traffic analysis to proactively identifying incremental sales and profit opportunities for each e-commerce site.
• Managing a team of designers, tech professionals, marketers and logistics operators to ensure a seamless end to end online retail service that ensures the customers finds what he wants and gets it within an acceptable and defined service timeframe.
• Managing fleet of delivery vehicles
• Keeping the site up to date and functional at all times
• Loss prevention and asset protection
• Recruitment and manpower development.

Requirements The Ideal candidate should have:

• Minimum of Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Management, Business Administration, Business or Internet Marketing or relevant field. MBA will be added advantage.
• Minimum of Seven (7) year’s management level experience in a successful ecommerce retailing business
• The ideal candidate should have had operational excellence and profit goals, oversight and responsibility for a multi-billion naira retail operation
• Track-record of effectively managing teams to complete multiple, time-sensitive projects and competing priorities with minimum guidance.

Relevant Competencies:

• Track record in developing successful e-commerce sites
• Internet sales and marketing
• Tech savy with particular knowledge and skills in graphic and web design and analytics
• Excellent Leadership skills and high attention to details
• Excellent Business and Financial skills
• Strong in people management with an ability to build partnerships and influence internal/external customers
• Good Project Management Skills
• Strong analytical, problem solving and strategic planning skills
• Superior verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to adapt to and drive change.

    Job Title: Butchery Manager (Retail) Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers Job Description

• The Butchery Manager plans, directs and controls all aspects of the butchery unit of the Fresh Food Department’s operations.
• He/she is responsible for the profitable operations of the section in line with established policies and corporate objectives

Key Responsibilities

• Directs the Meat Department employees to meet production, sales and merchandising objectives.
• Employee shift and work scheduling
• Oversees all ordering to maximize sales and profits
• Assists customers, makes cuts to order, controls inventory, controls stock levels, checks in vendors, logs spoilage, logs item sales and maintains product freshness
• Manages customer service
• Supervises general cleaning functions of the Unit
• Ensures compliance to all governmental regulation on proper food handling and maintenance requirements
• Ensures department merchandising and product pricing are in compliance with company policies and procedures

Requirements The Ideal candidate should have:

• Minimum of National Diploma or equivalent qualification in Food Science, Hotel & Catering or other relevant field.
• Minimum of Four (4) year’s supervisory level experience in a successful meat processing and retailing business
• The ideal candidate is knowledgeable, skilled and capable to train in all methods of product care and processing of fresh and processed meat products, including the proper handling and cutting of all meat products

    Job Title: General Manager, Retail Operations Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers Job Description

• The General Manager, Retail Operations will be responsible for the day to day profitable operations of all physical retail stores in line with the company’s retail operating standards and set objectives.
• The Candidates must be an Inspiring, confident and self-driven person with bias for action in line with our business goals.

Responsibilities Key Responsibilities include:

• Day to day oversight on all assigned retail operating stores
• Visiting individual stores and investigating the performance and operations of each store
• Maintaining best practice visual merchandising standards across all assigned locations
• Ensuring that all the stores are working towards higher profitability
• Assist in the development, update and enforcement of retail operating standards and policies
• Ensuring that all the stores are adhering to and functioning as per company policies
• Provide troubleshooting solutions to stores in times of problems
• Instituting best-in-class loss prevention strategies aimed at protecting company’s assets and managing costs
• Creates business plan for the stores and communicates same
• Creates end-to-end sales plan, display plans and ad plans customized for each Category
• Maintains comprehensive awareness of industry trends and competitive landscape
• Ensuring proper controls and minimal shrinkage to the company’s inventory
• Working with the Human Resource function to identify and recruit operating staff
• Training and mentoring staff

Requirements The Ideal candidate should have:

• Minimum of Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Management, Business Administration or relevant field. MBA will be added advantage.
• Minimum of Ten years’ management level experience in a retail/franchise experience for a multibranch modern grocery retail chain
• The ideal candidate should have had operational excellence and profit goals, oversight and responsibility for a minimum ten (10) superstore modern grocery retail operation

Relevant Competencies:

• Excellent Leadership skills and attention to details
• Advanced user of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook and power point) & excellent presentation skills
• Excellent Business and Finance Acumen. Cost and profit conscious
• Clear and Effective Communication Skills
• Good Project Management Skills

  How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications and CV's to: [email protected] Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.     Application Deadline  21st December, 2017.

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