Procurement Assistant Needed

Job Level:        Experienced (Non-Manager)

Location:        Lagos

Job Type:        Full-Time

Minimum Qualification:        Degree

Preferred Years of Experience:         2 - 5 years

Application Deadline:           4^th March, 2016

DESCRIPTION

A manufacturing company located in Lagos requires the services of a Procurement Assistant.

Responsibilities:

·         Analyze procurement requirements and select the most appropriate methods based on standard interpretation.

·         Maintain accurate record of purchases.

·         Process the necessary procurement documentations.

·         Search for interested suppliers, negotiate the best deals for the company and constantly review bidding process.

·         Establish and negotiate contract terms and conditions, and maintain supplier relationships.

·         Prepare and maintain purchasing records, reports and price-lists.

·         Carry out all necessary procurement activities.

·         Ensure the proper execution of all procurement processes.

·         Process purchase requisitions/orders within purchasing authorities.

·         Invite, assess and award/recommend supplier tenders, bids, quotations and proposal.

·         Assist in the development of specifications for equipment, materials and services to be purchased.

·         Reconcile or resolve value discrepancies.

Qualifications and Requirements:

·         Minimum of a Degree in Purchasing and Supply (Knowledge of Engineering/Accounting and a background in Cost Accounting will be an added advantage)

·         Ability to multi-task and be a team player.

·         Effective communication skills.

·         Attentive to details and ability to work with limited supervision.

·         Strong negotiation skills.a

·         Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, are required.

·         Minimum of two years relevant experience in procurement/purchasing and importation.

·         Willingness to source the market for best deals possible.

·         Applicants are required to be resident in Lagos.

Applicants should send their CVs torecruitment@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.

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.