Location: Central and West Africa Region
Company: Nestlé CWA
Position Type: Full-time
Minimum Educational qualification: Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Sales or Business Administration.

Minimum Relevant work experience: Minimum of 8 years’ experience in Sales and Marketing.

Position Summary:

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world.  At our very core, we are a human company driven by our purpose to enhance the quality of life and contribute to a healthier future. 

Nestlé CWAR is currently looking for a Regional Sales Performance Development and Effectiveness Manager at our Nestle office to coordinate, implement and evaluate  selling, negotiation, coaching and soft skills trainings and initiatives for the clusters Sales Force based on continuous needs analysis of  Nestle Sales Management, Field Sales, Sales Trainers and Distributors or outsourced Sales Force. To Drive Sales processes and compliance effectiveness across the Clusters and ensure adherence.

Your Responsibilities..

Under Regional Sales Performance Development scope, you will

• Identify based on gap analysis and align with the Countries on the individual training and development needs of the respective teams and propose training plans to improve and develop performance of the members of the various business units.
• Work with key internal and external stakeholders to put in place adapted annual training and development plan to address the identified training and development needs.
• Put in place necessary tools to ensure effective post development /training follow up and Periodically evaluate the results of implementing programs and action plans with the Country Representatives/National Sales Managers and the Regional Trainers team.
• Undertake field visits and involved in the field training (coaching)
• Identify sales potential to support the sales talent pool and develop easy to use tools: planning, reporting, learning, selling, etc to facilitate the work of the Sales team. You will prepare monthly Factory “Cost of Goods Sold” (COGS) variances and consolidate reports.

Under Effectiveness Management  scope, you will :

• Drive awareness and usage of the sales policies, procedures and processes within the sales function across clusters.
• Assess understanding and effective application of policies, procedure and processes within the sales function across clusters
• Take corrective action where knowledge and application gaps are identified to close them

What Will Make You Successful?

• A minimum of 8 years working experience in Sales and Marketing.
• Good understanding of the Market place.
• Has training and facilitation Skills.
• Bilingual (ability to speak and write in both English and French is an added advantage)
• Flexibility to learn and transfer/ impart knowledge
• Interest and ability to develop people
• Good communication skills
• Computer literate, Creative and Cross Cultural.
• Organized with good planning skills

Benefits

“Nestlé is an equal employment opportunity (EEO) employer, seeking diversity in qualified applicants for employment. All applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, ethnicity, color, gender, age, religion, nationality, disability or perceived disability, medical condition, or any other protected status, as defined by applicable law”.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Applications close on the 31st of December 2024