We Are Hiring Sales Representative – Port Harcourt

Job Level:        Experienced (Non-Manager)

Location:        Rivers (Port Harcourt)

Job Type:        Full-Time

DESCRIPTION

A manufacturing company requires the services of a qualified candidate to fill the position of a Sales Representative/Sales Clerk in Port Harcourt.

 Responsibilities

·         Expected to drive sales.

·         Handling cash transaction.

·         Implement the company’s sales strategic from time to time.

·         Ensure adherence to company’s policies and procedures at all time.

·         Checking daily cash accounts.

·         Ensure to make sales lodgments into the company’s account on a daily basis and effect sales reconciliation for all transactions.

·         Expected to stay at company’s location and handle day to day sales.

·         Maintain periodic sales reports and spreadsheets.

·         Attending to customers’ queries.

·         Respond to customers’ complaints and resolve their issues.

Qualifications and requirements

·         Must be resident in Port-Harcourt.

·         Work experience with an FMCG organization is an advantage but not necessary.

·         Must have about 1 - 3 years working experience.

·         Must be between 21 – 30 years of age

·         Must be able to drive and possess a valid driver’s licence.

·         Must be a graduate (B.Sc or HND)

·         Any other qualification/experience/skill will be an added advantage.

How To Apply

Send your CV and cover letter to recruitment@wemydrbrowns.com.

Graphic Designers Wanted

Graphic Designer

WemyIndustries LTD

Job Level:Experienced (Non-Manager)

Location:Lagos

Job Type:Full-Time

Minimum Qualification:Degree

 DESCRIPTION

A company located in Lagos requires the services of an outstanding Graphic Designer, who will be responsible for creating design solutions that have a high visual impact by designing, developing, coordinating and producing broad print and electronic communications for instructional and marketing uses.

Responsibilities

·         Design different types of layouts & illustrations, web design layout & typography according to brand guidelines.

·         Create & modify fonts according to brand guidelines.

·         Produce visual solutions to the communication needs using a mix of creative skills and commercial awareness. 

·         Create professional designs and layouts for promotional materials including direct mailings, handouts, advertisements, posters, signs, logos and other visual layouts.

·         Prepare new and unique illustrations, innovative layout prints and rough sketches of presentation and organization brochures and design graphics for website in line with branding guidelines.

·         Determine style, technique and medium best suited to organization promotion strategies.

·         Assist in establishing and maintaining professional graphics and identify standards for the company’s communications.

·         Contributes to the editorial development of projects.

·         Operates a computer or uses traditional techniques for a variety of graphic design activities, includes desktop publishing and layout, production, illustration and prepress file preparation.

·         Creates and develops media using digital art and photographic techniques.

·         Monitors and tracks production projects to ensure proper and timely completion.

Qualification and required skills

·         Degree in Graphic Design, Fine Arts or related field.

·         Minimum experience of 3 years in similar job.

·         Advanced experience and knowledge of the principles, practices and techniques of digital art, graphic design, layout and illustration.

·         Operation of current graphics software programs e.g. CorelDraw, Photoshop, Illustrator, premiere pro e.t.c

·         Knowledge of graphic animation, video editing and media presentations

·         Awareness of printing techniques.

·         Awareness of current trends in visual arts, working knowledge of the latest compute packages.

·         Knowledge of photography and photography editing.

·         Must be resident in Lagos.

 Send your CV and cover letter to recruitment@wemydrbrowns.com.

We Are Hiring!

Wemy Industries Limited is an indigenous manufacturer and distributor of health and hygiene products since 1978. We promote our products through the Dr.Brown’s and Nightingale brands. Most importantly, our products are further divided into different care lines; Babycare line, Feminine care line and Adult care lines of products. Each subset has its unique selling points and consumers.

We are on the verge of expansion, thus, looking to hire for immediate employment highly qualified and efficient individuals. The roles are as follows:

1)     In-Store Sales Representative:

Specialization:     Sales/Business Development

Minimum Qualification

OND

Preferred Years of Experience

Entry Level 

Responsibilities:

• Canvass for customers in the stores (Super    markets)
• Manage, train and supervise Merchandisers attached to the store
• Working closely with store staff and department heads to decide how goods should be displayed to maximize sales
• Generate orders for the stores
• Develop and sustain relationship with the customers
• Required to make a daily sales lodgement into the company’s accounts on a daily basis and do the sales reconciliation.
• Maintaining awareness of competitors' performance;
• Gathering information on customers' reactions to products

Qualification and Requirements: 

• Good looking and neat.
• Good communication skills.
• Energetic and dynamic
• Minimum of an SSCE (O.N.D. As an added advantage)
• Must be female.
• Experience: 0-3 years
• Specific requirements: Persons with work experience in FMCG companies will also be an added advantage
• Applicants are required from the Lagos state only (Island- Ajah, Lekki, Victoria Island: Mainland- Surulere, Ebute-Metta, Ikeja)

 2)  Corporate Sales Representative :

Specialization:  Sales and Business development

Summary

The Corporate Sales Representative is responsible for creating mutually advantageous relationships with organizations to build and maintain corporate sales accounts.

Competencies

• Attention to Detail

• Time Management

• Planning & Organizing

• Communication

• Adaptability / Flexibility

• Result Focus

• Accountability & Dependability

• Creative and Innovative Thinking

• Ethics and Integrity

• High Energy and Manage Stress

• Mediating and Negotiating

Job Duties

• Develop, build, and manage a client base of corporate accounts

• Target new and existing accounts within the Lotteries, Air Ports, Hygiene, Government, and

Educational sectors for new business

• Work with the Marketing Dept to develop and execute Corporate Sales initiatives

• Prospect new clients via sales calls, direct mail, email and networking events

• Follow up on leads generated through retail stores, research and promotional events

• Generate monthly budgets and sales forecasts

• Participate in trade shows, conferences, and community events to help promote the corporate program

• Investigate and troubleshoot customer service issues

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree

• 2 – 5 years of sales experience

• Access to your own vehicle, valid driver’s license

• Proficient with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

• Ability to work independently and without supervision

Work Conditions

• Regional travel will be required

• Working at off-site promotional events, conferences and trade shows

• Overtime as required

Send Your details to:

recruitment@wemydrbrowns.com.

234-1-2956419.

REBRANDING AND ITS BENEFITS.

Re-branding a business is the process of creating a new look and feel for an already existing brand or product in order to influence its customer’s perception. This may include changing the name, logo or packaging. Re-branding can be a very challenging but extremely rewarding process. It requires careful consideration and planning to achieve the desired goal which is to breathe new life into a brand to attract new customers and increase its popularity. Nigerian Breweries, Oando, and Glo are examples of Nigerian companies that are constantly re-branding and are enjoying wide acceptance among the Nigerian public.

 In 1997, tech giant Apple was very close to declaring bankruptcy, but a little less than 17 years later, stock prices have gone up from $6 to $350 and the company keeps shooting in an upward trajectory. Apple did not only re-brand the company’s name, mascot and logo, but also started producing reliable and elegantly designed products, adding artistry to technology; as changing its name from Apple Computer to Apple enabled the company to produce innovative products such as iMac, iPod, iPad, and iPhone. Apple found a way to polish its brand and create a positive experience for its customers. 

Until recently, McDonald’s had the image of a chain that served unhealthy meals sold at exorbitant prices; in fact, critics touted McDonald’s meals to be one of the leading causes of obesity. McDonald’s has since re-branded itself, now serving more healthy meals with reduced prices under the slogan “I’m lovin it”. This makeover appears to be having a ripple effect as there has been a reported 5.3 percent rise in sales according to Business Insider.

Wal-Mart, in a 2007 re-branding, replaced its tagline “Always low price” with “Save money. Live better”. This singular act changed the company’s reputation from offering retails at rock bottom prices to suggesting that buying items at low prices will improve the lifestyle of the customer. In 2010, Wal-Mart was the world’s largest public corporation by revenue, according to the Forbes Global 2000 for that year.

Re-branding is generally aimed at repositioning a brand or company, usually in an attempt to move the brand up market. According to Business Insider, it doesn’t only change the customer’s response to the brand but also helps the brand achieve its goals. It’s a careful strategy; often times subtle and methodical, and may involve both re-imaging and regeneration. Change, as it is said, is inevitable; it is pertinent that companies adopt new strategies when needed rather than sticking with the same strategy for years even when it starts to feel uninteresting with time. 

Re-branding is considered a smart business decision for the following reasons:

• ·         Every brand needs refreshing to stay relevant as the 21^st century market is an ever evolving one, re-branding affords companies the chance to sort out a new strategy to make their brand relevant and more importantly, remain relevant.
• ·         Re-branding influences the customers perception, when a product wears a new look, or has a new feel or a company updates its marketing materials and strategies with a careful consideration of the target customer, the customer perception changes and tilts more positively.
• ·         Re-branding offers the opportunity to clarify image, while allowing room for future growth this naturally improves the bottom line by conveying a company’s core value and brand message.
• ·         Re-branding can breathe new life into a business when it is done with a strategy, a process, thought and most importantly for the right reasons. This will set the product or company apart from competitors.

As has been undoubtedly witnessed in the examples of companies that have re-branded, re-branding brings along with it its own basket of gifts both for the company and their customers. It must be stressed that in re-branding, corporate establishments must take the current needs and desires of their customers into consideration but still stay true to themselves as a respectable brand as seen in the example of McDonald’s. 

Re-branding must also be meaningful and powerful enough that it would improve the relationship between the company and current customers as well as prospective new ones. Most importantly, companies need to re-brand to stay ahead of competition in a very competitive market where you can get left behind if you don’t keep up with the ever-growing demands of customers and the trends in the society that create such demands. This will ensure that brands don’t lose their usefulness and help them create a stronger voice for their brands.

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Source(s):

Business Insider.

The Importance Of Social Media Sites In The Future Of Advertising In Nigeria.

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“The advertising industry is relentlessly inventive, that’s what we do” (sic)

Rupert Howell. Chairman of the London arm of McCann Erikson.

As at 2013, online sales in Nigeria through social media network were worth 3 billion dollars. Apparently, there are 600 million more people who own a mobile phone and have access to the internet and ultimately the social media compared to those who own a toothbrush. The research revealed there are 4.8 billion mobile users as at 2010 but only 4.2 billion people with a toothbrush. I guess it means every mobile should be sold with a toothbrush to ensure close encounters are engaging and pleasant in our society, technically the internet has taken over the globe to the detriment of essential utilities.

The above statistics are merely a bench mark for the assertion I will be making in this article. So, what are the key terms here? Social Media and Advertising; Social media represents low cost tools that are used to combine technology and social interaction with the use of words, pictures and all sort of semiotics. These tools are typically internet or mobile based, a few that you have probably heard of include: Twitter, Face book, YouTube etc. A scholar simply said “it is an unobtrusive two way communications”. While, Advertising is the non-personal communication of information usually paid for and usually persuasive in nature about products, services or ideas by identified sponsors through the various media. 

Advertising is a tool used to inform potential customers. It is important to know that the advertising industry is a vast one, in fact Nigeria’s advertising industry has witnessed tremendous growth especially in recent times thanks to the advent of new technologies especially social media. Advertising in Nigeria could be dated back to 1859 via news-paper; Rev. Henry Townsend’s (IWE IROYIN). The emergence of different technologies further nurtured the growth of advertising in Nigeria and the world general.

            As ever before, the debate of the industry has centered on the best way to achieve results,  which brings me back to my facts and figures on social media: the idea that if Face book  were to be a country it will be way bigger than Nigeria , as it houses over 1.23 billion users as at January 2014. Face book as continue to innovate and evolve, the last 12 months have seen the new time line introduced, brand pages as well as the purchase of Instagram and the mobile app platform, monthly active users now total 850 million users, 20% of all page views on the web are on Face book, 425 million active mobile users, 2.7 billion likes per month, interestingly 57% users are female. What about Twitter? Twitter is regarded as the enigma of social media fraternity with its usefulness questioned by a lot of people, yet scholars assert it’s simplicity and immediacy as the key to its geometric growth  , but do you know there are 465 million accounts again bigger than Nigeria , 175 million tweets  a day.

            LinkedIn  started in 2003 as a professional business social network and as at 2014 there are over 300 million members according to the press release from LinkedIn , 60% of the members live outside USA in 2011 alone  there were 4.2 billion professional oriented searches on LinkedIn platform; YouTube is affiliated to videos, so many brands outside and within Nigeria have seized on its power  to be a viral media that augments traditional advertising media such as television. YouTube’s advantage is its availability and ubiquity. It is the world second largest search engine after Google; it may surprise you that it has 2 billion views per day. I can go and on, with the likes of Instagram, Pinterest, Google+, Myspace etc. All these statistics are meant to make obvious and absolute the importance of social media in the future of advertising in Nigeria , this facts and figures justifies the claim that social media is very strategic to the growth of the advertising  company not only a developing country like Nigeria but also the world.

A novelist once said “you can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements”, Nigeria’s ideals and belief system varies from place to place: the North is mostly Muslims, the South is mostly Christians, influx of young and old, rural and urban, Ibo, Yoruba and Hausa; each group share different world view, thus the advertising industry in Nigeria must be deft and sensitive. The future is already here, most Nigerians spend less time reading the newspaper but they check mails, update Face book status, tweet trending topics. In fact social media have become a melting point for Nigerian elite, a haven of some sort. 

Social media is a global village, do I need to emphasize its immediacy, responsiveness and reliability for feed backs as opposed to the one-way immobile media like radio, newspaper, television etc. the social media is not just important to the future of advertising in Nigeria, since the whole world is getting digital, it is the bridge that will take the advertising industry in Nigeria past the miry clay of disorientation and ineffectiveness.