Vacancy
Syngenta is an international agribusiness company and one of the world’s leading seeds and crop protection Chemicals Company. To meet the demand for expansion, The Company is seeking for qualified candidates to fill the existing vacant position;
Customer Marketing Manager
Job location – Abuja
The position holder will be responsible for business accomplishment and development activities by researching and developing strategic plan and human resource objectives such as orienting, assigning, scheduling, monitoring and enforcing policies and procedures.
Responsibilities
• Lead, motivate and develop the marketing function as a main pillar of the Commercial Unit Leadership Team to ensure delivery of business objectives
• Drive country strategy development by understanding & responding to the market & co-developing new offers and solutions with Territory Marketing, while challenging status quo to expand company product reach and profit revenues
• Maximize the value of the assets in the Commercial Unit CP and Seeds portfolio with the support and guidance of the Territory Asset Team & insure that asset development activities take into account the CU market needs
• Lead the delivery of all Strategic & Planning processes on behalf of the Commercial Unit in-line with Territory governance
• Drive and lead MaSE pillars to create value to Syngenta, channel partners and growers. Within all pillars, especially drive excellence in Customer Relationship Management and Campaign execution
• Achieves objectives by giving information and recommendations and a strategic plan for the review and production, preparation of quality and standard seed
• Provides information by collecting, analysing, and summarizing data and trends and protects organization's value by keeping information confidential
• Deliver country tactical marketing and campaign plans and to support commercial team and ensure delivery of maximum market share and profitable growth
• Campaign execution: Within each campaign, ensure systematic:
 Planning, execution, measurement and review
 Reporting to main stakeholders within CU & Territory
 Use and optimization of proper functionalities of Salesforce.com to enrich and exploit the customer database, which should enhance Commercial Unit CRM strategy
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
• A good university degree in Agriculture, Marketing or a related field of study
• Understand country market dynamics (customer, channel and value chain), competitive environment and overall product knowledge.
• Ability to conduct effective financial- and market analysis
• Solid knowledge base on business strategy and marketing and sales principles (MaSE)
• Appropriate local language knowledge, plus a good grasp of English is critical
• Excellent interpersonal and team management skills
• Influencing and negotiation skills
• Innovative and strategic thinking, planning and implementation ability.
• Financial analysis
• Communication and presentation skills
• Project management skills
• Leadership and ability to deal with different interactions (superiors/peers/collaborators) at national and international level.
• Excellent interpersonal and intercultural skills.
• Strategic thinking, planning and implementation ability.
• Good understanding of Marketing and Sales fundamentals.
• 10-12 years’ experience in product management / marketing support and 4-5 years on middle management

Method of Application
Application and CV’s with the job title clearly indicated as the subject of the mail should be sent to; agric@rhizomeng.com
NOTE: Only shortlisted candidate will be contacted
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday, March 2nd, 2015