Vacancies for in a Paint Manufacturing Company, 10th March, 2017
Afordonz Consulting Limited - Our client specializes in Paint Manufacturing and is seeking to recruit and fill the position of:
Job Title: Sales/Marketing Executive
Location: Lagos
Job Roles
- Frontline sales person responsible for the execution of agreed
sales and profitability targets within the assigned sales area by
acquiring new business and maintaining existing customers.
Responsibilities
- Must have the BURNING DESIRE to sell paint final products and make commission.
- Must have good knowledge about civil works and construction relating to painting across varied platform.
- Must have knowledge in both architectural and industrial coatings, decorative and protective paints.
- Must be Trustworthy and understand ethics of doing business.
- Ability to systematically screen customer base for new opportunities, generates leads and maintains pipeline.
- Identify, plan and develop new customers in line with business development plans/targets.
- Provide appropriate and agreed levels of contact, service and support to ensure sales targets are met.
- Delivers periodical progress reports and proactively submits
recommendations regarding the improvements in the approach to the
marketplace.
- Proactively informs the upper management about the required
sales support level (including marketing, technical, logistics and
control) and cooperates in the coordination of the implementation of the
defined activity.
- Has expert knowledge on the features and benefits of available paints products/services
- Ability to technically educate customers on technical requirements of available paints product lines and application.
- Monitors and reports on the status of formal customer complaint and implementation procedure.
- Gets familiar with all applicable corporate as well as site
policies/procedures with regard to personal conduct/HSE standards and
acts in compliance with all regulations.
- Monitor sales against agreed targets on a regular basis to
ensure they are met and where necessary the need for remedial actions
are identified, reported and implemented.
- Manage sales support activities in designated area, collects
reports and analyzes the customer feedback / information on present as
well as future market trends in the context of possible further market
penetration.
- Identifies targets and implements the approved sales strategies in the assigned region.
- Promotes company’s positive image and develops long-term relations with the customers.
- Identifies business opportunities, pinpoints and tries to
resolve existing and/or potential problems and requests support from the
upper management.
Qualification/Experience
- Candidate must have 3 – 5 years’ experience in Paints sales/Marketing in a manufacturing company.
- Must have a first degree from a reputable University.
Job Title: Head of a Chemistry Laboratory
Location: Lagos
Job Roles
- Performs laboratory tests to determine chemical and physical
characteristics or composition of solid, liquid, or gaseous materials
for such purposes as quality control, process control, or product
development by performing the following duties:
Job Responsibilities
- To ensure optimum chemical and parameters levels are maintained.
Monitor daily and weekly trends to proactively make necessary
corrections to chemistry or process parameters
- Must have knowledge in both architectural and industrial coatings, decorative and protective paints.
- Must be organized and have a management attitude.
- Communicates and cooperates with paint suppliers and equipment
suppliers on usage optimization, formulation compatibility, paint
performance and quality issues on current programs and future
developmental programs.
- Utilizes problem solving tools (8D, Fishbone, 5 Why) to solve and eliminate problems and variation.
- Responsible for complex paint mixing and ensuring accurate product inventory of the paint.
- Demonstrates proficiency in trouble-shooting appearance and
performance issues as well as training others in problem identification
and resolution.
- Runs day to day standard Operating procedures and policies of running a Laboratory and creating reports.
- Supervision over quality control of Raw Materials and finished goods/ final product.
- Develop further the Research and development department and must have a good
- understanding of the utilization of lab equipment and tools.
Qualification/Experience
- Candidate must have 8 - 10 years’ experience in managing and
heading the team of chemists in the Laboratory of a Paint manufacturing
company.
- Bachelor of Science degree, chemistry preferred. Chemical
Engineer or biochemistry if you have a Paint coatings or plating
background.
Note: Multiple applications may result in disqualification and use job title as the subject of your mail.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit a Copy of their detailed & recent CV to:
[email protected]
Application Deadline: 17th March, 2017.