Saro Lifecare, a division of Saro Africa International operates in the Personal & Household Products Segment of the FMCG Industry in Nigeria, and is expanding its products range and manufacturing operations.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Business Accountant

Location: Ilesha, Osun

Job Description

• Business Accountant (BA) is a strategic partner in running the business and plays a crucial role in providing central financial direction to the Strategic Business Unit.
• BA will direct and oversee all financial functions of the Strategic Business Unit (SBU), create a culture of high performance and people management in the unit, align functions and resources, and deploy people and skills optimally to achieve strategic priorities.
• He /She should be able to present reports competently and confidently to the SBU Management/ Corporate Office and negotiate effectively with business partners.
• He /She must have clear focus, give attention to details and be a strategic thinker who is focused on execution.

Primary Responsibilities

• As a strategic business partner with the Business Manager and Management, BA is responsible for the assessment of the company's performance against both the annual budget (in line with the levers of control) and the company's approved 5-year Plan.
• Develops tools and systems to provide critical financial and operational information to the Business Manager and provides actionable recommendations on both strategy and operations.
• Cost: create sense of value for money across board to enhance effective deployment of resources. Work together with all units to ensure SBU uses less to achieve more. Ensure the Naira differential objectives are met
• Put the right mechanism in place to ensure SBU Pays all obligations on due date, stays Cash-Flow Positive throughout the period in line with the financial indicators in the plan
• "Responsible for the seamless and real-time running of the financial reporting processes to aid speed of service delivery to both internal and external parties
• Report the actual financial Performance and compare with the Control Levers.
• Oversee the finance and Accounts unit to ensure proper maintenance of all accounting systems and function
• Oversee payroll budgeting, monthly payroll and all related controls. Assist in the design, implementation, and timely calculations of wages, incentives, commissions and bonuses and ensure adequate cash flow for payroll payments.
• Provide financial analysis and support for HR regarding cost effective benefit plans, health insurance plans and other fringe benefits affecting SBU associates
• Insurance Claim workflow should be strictly monitored and each claim settled/closed within a month after the incident.
• Expected to have specific information regarding daily operations of the Business and keep the Business Manager updated
• Periodic Key account reconciliation and Trial Balance review
• Put the right mechanism in place to meet all Suppliers obligations on due date, stays Cash-Flow Positive throughout the period in line with the financial indicators in the plan, and Code of Business Conduct.
• BA Expected to perform management duties and actively contribute to the SBU financial, operations and strategic plans.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a second Class upper in Accounting, Economics, or Finance from a reputable university
• Must be a Chartered Accountant (ACCA or ACA).
• An MBA or equivalent postgraduate management degree will be an advantage
• Must be computer literate and have excellent ERP skills.
• Applicant must have a Minimum of 5 years working experience
• Age: 27 - 33 years old.

Method of Application 
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Hypermarket Officer

Location: Abuja

Job Description

• He/She ensures wholesales, & retail customers in assigned open markets are served; and SLC products breadth are available & visible at the retail / wholesaler’s outlets in assigned open markets always.

Primary Responsibilities

• 100% Implementation of designed route plan
• Develop & maintain customer list that capture Name, Contact Person, Address, and Phone Numbers of customers in assigned markets.
• Optimally Manage Key trade partner inventory and ensures SLC share of their business increases.
• Provide daily and weekly insight on Competition activities and their impact
• Ensure Effective depletion through SKU redistribution at the retail level
• Coverage of assigned universe, new customer recruitment, management, retention and growth
• Must be accountable of all the stocks in his/her custody
• Report issues relating to / satisfaction of customers, & consumers in assigned markets.
• Assist in the development (information generation) and implementation of marketing plans regarding his / her assigned territory.
• Merchandize & execute trade marketing initiatives leading to the desired visibilities/ depletion for company brands in the retail outlets channels.

Special Skills & Key Behavioral Competencies:

• Smart
• Numeric
• Self-Starter
• Computer literate
• Confident
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Must be resident in City of interest (Abuja)

Courses/Qualification

• OND, HND or B.Sc (Any Discipline) Fluent in English, and Computer Literate, with at least 2 years’ experience.
• Age - 20-30 years

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Strategy Execution Monitoring and Planning Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• The position of the Strategy Execution Monitoring and Planning Manager is a management position within the Business Operation Group.
• The New Strategy Execution Monitoring and Planning Manager is charged with the overall responsibility of coordinating strategic planning, monitoring the execution of the strategy and synergies amongst the subsidiaries and providing framework for collating data for analysis for planning.

Primary Responsibilities 

Strategy Execution Supervision:

• Ensure Front Line Associates (FLA) have Plans; Goals, Wildly Important Goals, Lead Measures; Scorecard and Commitments consequential to the SBU Goals.
• Provide independent account of Strategy execution by the FLA.
• Report lapses from monitoring to appropriate authority for improvement.
• Clear Paths on Issues arising from Strategy Execution that may be affecting seamless execution.

Strategy Planning Coordination:

• Ensure thorough monitoring of the external environment for industry/market developments.
• Coordinate and oversees the overall review of business performance improvements, programs, and practices.
• Provides leadership with global and regional business scenarios and ad-hoc analysis as required.
• Validate assumptions and changes in the external environment.
• Develops and coordinates annual strategic planning process and corporate planning initiatives.
• Direct the yearly or Periodic Planning of All the Business Units.
• Conduct Organizational Reviews for Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Implementation.
• Follow up on Outcomes of Reviews to ensure appropriate actions are take.
• Make recommendations on Opportunities and Threats that may be of interest to the Businesses and Units.
• Plan and coordinate strategy review sections in the company.

SBUs Planning Support:

• Support subsidiaries and Units to distil the strategic objectives into key initiatives.
• Collate all the subsidiaries strategic initiatives and build comprehensive project plans with agreed timelines, key performance indicators (KPIs) and identified parties responsible for the execution.
• Coordinate the implementation of the strategic initiatives of the organisation.
• Provide guidance to individuals responsible for the execution of strategic initiatives, obtain progress report on workstream and understand the challenges encountered.
• Communicate the strategy to the entire organization through formal sessions.
• Ensure that performance is measured regularly.
• Provide framework for collating data from the subsidiaries and analyse the data for the group to make informed decisions.
• Create and drives the use of executive management dashboard to monitor key performance indicators for the business.

Leadership and Stakeholders Relationship Management:

• Develop effective relationship with internal/external stakeholders.
• Communicate the Organisation’s vision, goals and objectives and ensure alignment of the goals and activities.
• Ensure key stakeholders have a complete understanding of business strategy and initiatives.
• Formulate appropriate strategic responses to developments across the organisation and advice the Management accordingly.
• Ensure synergies amongst the subsidiaries.
• Coordinate, plan and provide direction on processes.

Synergy Supervision:

• Coordinate the Synergy amongst SBUs and ensure that the KPIs are delivered.
• Develop new ways of synergies amongst SBUs

Others:

• Other duties as may be assigned by Executive Management.

Qualifications/Experience

• Minimum of a second Class upper in a quantitative field, such as engineering, finance, mathematics, economics, research, business or other related discipline from a reputable university.
• An MBA degree will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of 5 years Relevant Experience in Strategy Development
• Experience in FMCG will be an added advantage.
• Age: 30- 35

Competencies:

• Understanding of macroeconomic issues and organisation’s core mandates.
• Understanding of stakeholders value analysis.
• Knowledge of Strategic Management .
• Ability to identify control techniques that respond to organisational, supervisory, and business process risks.
• Understanding of organisation learning principles and change management.
• Demonstrates knowledge in anticipating, identifying organisational problems and tailoring different problem solving approaches to resolve them.
• Demonstrates knowledge in resource utilization
• Application of tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.
• Demonstrates knowledge in strategic management and planning

Special Skills:

• Initiative and responsiveness
• Analytical thinking
• Administrative ability
• Managerial ability
• Results orientation
• Relationship building
• Strong communication and interpersonal relationship ability

Method of Application 
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: New Business Frontier Development Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• The position of the New Business Frontier Development Manager is a management position within the Business Operation Group.
• The New Business Frontier Development Manager is charged with the overall responsibility of studying and bringing out winnable new business opportunities outside current strategy boundaries of the company in the medium to long term that are aligned to the company capabilities.

Primary Responsibilities
Visioning:

• Understand trends and direction of both global and local economies.
• Sniff opportunities even not apparent to others.
• Envision new business direction for the group.
• Pursue and drive the vision.
• Coordinate resources for any specific project.
• Business Research and Environmental Scanning
• Come up with strategy Frontier opportunities across geographies of operations for consideration.
• Coordinate research, analysis, proposal and business planning of any potential interest.
• Validate data and assumptions for investment decisions.
• Conduct specific investment protocol activities in any geography of interest.
• Validate any local information and do deep dive into practical market situation in any potential geography.
• Visit and analyse any geography of interest.

Business Planning:

• Develop new business plans.
• Coordinate the commercialization and transfer to SBU.
• External Relationship Management
• Represent the GED and Executive Office in professional functions.
• Keep track of developments with all our business operations relations and changes in the environment.
• Midwife and manage specific JV developmental relationship.
• Draft and review performance KPIs of any Relationship.
• Network and bring new business relationships.
• Attend and represent the company in Trade and Industry Professional organization meetings.
• Leadership and Stakeholders Relationship Management
• Develop effective relationship with internal/external stakeholders.
• Communicate the Organisation’s vision, goals and objectives and ensure alignment of the goals and activities.
• Ensures key stakeholders have a complete understanding of business strategy and initiatives.
• Network within group for effective relationship.

Budgetary Management:

• Prepare and manage project budget prudently.
• Continuously explore new ways of doing things to drive efficiency.
• Others
• Other duties as may be assigned by Executive Management.

Qualifications/ Experience

• Minimum of a second Class upper in a quantitative field, such as engineering, finance, mathematics, economics, research, business or other related discipline from a reputable university.
• Must have an MBA degree
• Minimum of 5 years Relevant Experience in Strategy and New Business Development
• Experience in FMCG will be an added advantage.
• Age: 30- 37

Competencies:

• Understanding of macroeconomic issues and organisation’s core mandates.
• Well-travelled with international exposure.
• Ability to identify control techniques that respond to organisational, supervisory, and business process risks.
• Demonstration of knowledge in anticipating, identifying organisational problems and tailoring different problem solving approaches to resolve them.
• Demonstration of knowledge in resource utilization.
• Application of tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.
• Demonstrates knowledge in strategic management and planning.
• Project management experience.

Special Skills:

• Initiative and responsiveness
• Analytical thinking
• Administrative ability
• Managerial ability
• Results orientation
• Relationship building
• Strong communication and interpersonal relationship ability.

Method of Application 
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Market Sale Representative

Location: Badagry, Lagos

Job Description

• He/She ensures wholesales, & retail customers in assigned open markets are served; and SLC products breadth are available & visible at the retail / wholesaler’s outlets in assigned open markets always.

Primary Responsibilities

• 100% Implementation of designed route plan
• Develop & maintain customer list that capture Name, Contact Person, Address, and Phone Numbers of customers in assigned markets.
• Optimally Manage Key trade partner inventory and ensures SLC share of their business increases.
• Provide daily and weekly insight on Competition activities and their impact
• Ensure Effective depletion through SKU redistribution at the retail level
• Coverage of assigned universe, new customer recruitment, management, retention and growth
• Must be accountable of all the stocks in his/her custody
• Report issues relating to / satisfaction of customers, & consumers in assigned markets.
• Assist in the development (information generation) and implementation of marketing plans regarding his / her assigned territory.
• Merchandize & execute trade marketing initiatives leading to the desired visibilities/ depletion for company brands in the retail outlets channels.

Courses/Qualifications

• OND (any discipline)
• Fluent in English, and Computer Literate, with at least 2 years’ experience.
• Age - 20-30 years

Special Skills & Key Behavioral Competencies:

• Smart
• Numeric
• Self-Starter
• Computer literate
• Confident
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Must be resident in City of interest (Badagry, Lagos)

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Market Sale Representative

Location: Mowe Ibafo, Ogun

Job Description

• He/She ensures wholesales, & retail customers in assigned open markets are served; and SLC products breadth are available & visible at the retail / wholesaler’s outlets in assigned open markets always.

Primary Responsibilities

• 100% Implementation of designed route plan
• Develop & maintain customer list that capture Name, Contact Person, Address, and Phone Numbers of customers in assigned markets.
• Optimally Manage Key trade partner inventory and ensures SLC share of their business increases.
• Provide daily and weekly insight on Competition activities and their impact
• Ensure Effective depletion through SKU redistribution at the retail level
• Coverage of assigned universe, new customer recruitment, management, retention and growth
• Must be accountable of all the stocks in his/her custody
• Report issues relating to / satisfaction of customers, & consumers in assigned markets.
• Assist in the development (information generation) and implementation of marketing plans regarding his / her assigned territory.
• Merchandize & execute trade marketing initiatives leading to the desired visibilities/ depletion for company brands in the retail outlets channels.

Courses/Qualifications

• OND (any discipline)
• Fluent in English, and Computer Literate, with at least 2 years’ experience.
• Age - 20-30 years

Special Skills & Key Behavioral Competencies:

• Smart
• Numeric
• Self-Starter
• Computer literate
• Confident
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Must be resident in City of interest (Mowe Ibafo, Ogun State)

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online