Adept Systems Recruitment Sales Analyst Job Vacancy In Kenya

November 14, 2010

Our client is a global multinational Food & Beverage company, worldwide leader in most of its category portfolio. With global or local specific brands and products, the core focus is to meet the diverse needs and preferences of consumers all over the world.

Operating in Africa for more than 80 years, the Company has 5 markets within, the Equatorial African Region being amongst them. The regional operations are coordinated from Nairobi,Kenya to offer shared service across countries in Central, East, part of Southern Africa including the Island markets and Horn of Africa.

With this regional expertise, the Company aims at enhancing the business potential of this region, which is seen as an important source of future growth, and bring it up to the level of performance that the Company experiences in other regions of Africa and the world.

By reinforcing business and product categories focus, making operations more efficient,developing cross fertilization or enhancing peoples’ knowledge transfer and empowerment, this shared service expertise is expected to accelerate growth and meet the company’s high ambition for the Region.

Our client continues to be viewed as one of the leading global companies in Corporate Social Responsibility, particularly in the developing world. Being a committed leader in environmental performance, they ensure that natural resources are preserved and that waste management enjoys much attention in all operations worldwide. The company is an equal-opportunity employer with robust talent management policies, and systems. They value and reward individual and team contributions to business results.

Responsibilities
•Monitor release of budgets after getting the needed approval(s) from management to ensure no overspent;
•Maintain and periodically report on Total Trade Spread (TTS) budgets;
•Maintain comprehensive record of TTS ‘original’ budgets, shift(s);
•Assist in continuous development of appropriate reporting for analysis of Integrated Commercial Plan (ICP);
•Timely completion of tasks as per ICP process;
•Maintenance of In-Market Sales (IMS) / forecasts collection and consolidation;
•Ensure control and coordinate issuance of stocks and periodically report on physical inventory;
•Prepare CCS statements on quarterly basis;
•Closely follow up with Region Head Office on all the reported parallel imports;
•Ensure data base and valuation of parallel imports is maintained at all times;
•Differentiate between parallel and counterfeited products and report to Regional office accordingly;
•Prepare, consolidate & distribute POS and PREMIUM reports;
•Prepare sales analysis / forecasting reports;
•Contribute to up-dating records on pricing versus competition based on data gathered from sales team;
•Ensure integrity of ICP / IMS / TTS budgets and record any deviations thereof.

Requirements
•University Degree: B.A in Business Admin / Bachelor of Commerce or related field from a recognized university;
•Minimum 3 years experience in sales analysis, preferably with an FMCG background;
•Proficiency in numbers is a must and an outstanding working experience with Ms Excel, Ms PowerPoint and Ms Word;
•Working experience in Sales analysis and support, Supply Chain & or Finance, data handling,report preparation and interaction at multiple levels;
•Excellent interpersonal skills with good selling skills;
•Excellent statistical analysis skills
•Ability to drive results and obtain information from a team;
•Self initiative and proactive;
•Excellent analytical skills, written and verbal communication skills (articulate) coupled with good listening and critical reasoning skills;
•A proven team player with creative problem solving skills;
•Ability to multi task, self initiative, proactive with good presentation skills.

How to apply:
Send your application including a cover letter indicating your desire to work with our client; a detailed CV highlighting relevant experience, details of current and expected salary, a daytime phone contact, email address, and the names of three professional referees by close of business Friday 19th November 2010.

Adept Systems
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS
P O Box 6416, Nairobi, GPO 00100
Email: recruit@adeptsystems.co.ke
Web: www.adeptsys.biz

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