PZ Cussons Job Vacancies

PZ Cussons is a dynamic consumer products group and innovator of some of the world’s best known and loved brands. Calling on over 130 years of expertise, we operate internationally in carefully selected developed and emerging markets that present the greatest strategic potential for future growth. Our world-class supply chain and distribution networks enable us to meet our global consumer needs and deliver quality brands that add value and enhance everyday lives.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Legal Manager – Company Secretarial & Commercial

Job ID: JR003005
Location: Nigeria

What You’ll Be Doing

• Help strengthen corporate governance by supporting effective Board and Committee operations and ensuring key governance activities run smoothly.
• Provide clear, practical legal advice that enables commercial teams to pursue opportunities with confidence while managing risk effectively.
• Shape and support significant business initiatives, including financing arrangements, restructurings and other strategic projects that contribute to long term growth.
• Build trusted relationships with regulators, advisers, shareholders and internal stakeholders to ensure compliance and support strong business outcomes.
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments and translate them into practical actions that protect and strengthen the organisation.
• Coach and develop legal talent while helping improve ways of working across the legal function.

What You’ll Bring

• A Law Degree (LL.B) and qualification as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court.
• Around 6-8 years of post-NYSC experience, with strong exposure to corporate commercial law and company secretarial practice.
• Experience negotiating and advising on complex commercial agreements and business transactions.
• Strong understanding of corporate governance, legal compliance and regulatory requirements.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
• Strong commercial judgement and the ability to provide practical, business-focused legal advice.
• Experience within an FMCG, multinational or listed company environment would be advantageous.

Application Closing Date
27th August, 2026.

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

Job Title: Legal Manager – Contract and Litigation

Job ID: JR002995
Location: Nigeria

Description

• As a Legal Manager, Contract & Litigation, you’ll help protect and enable our business across Africa by turning legal insight into practical action.
• Working closely with teams across commercial, supply chain, HR and leadership functions, you’ll provide trusted advice that supports growth while managing risk. From shaping commercial agreements to leading dispute resolution and employment law matters, your work will influence important business decisions and help safeguard our brands, reputation and operations.
• This is a role with broad exposure, meaningful responsibility and the opportunity to make a visible impact every day.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Help the business move forward with confidence by providing practical legal advice on commercial opportunities, contracts and business decisions.
• Negotiate and shape commercial agreements that create value while balancing commercial ambition with appropriate risk management.
• Lead litigation, arbitration and dispute matters to achieve timely, effective outcomes that protect the company’s interests and reputation.
• Partner with HR and business leaders to navigate employment and labour law matters, supporting fair, consistent and legally sound decisions.
• Strengthen the organisation’s legal and regulatory position by identifying emerging risks, supporting investigations and responding to regulatory matters.
• Build strong relationships across the business while improving legal operations, reporting, awareness and stakeholder understanding of key legal issues.

What You’ll Bring

• An LL.B Degree and qualification as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court.
• Around 3-5 years of experience in commercial law, dispute resolution, employment law, compliance or a related legal environment.
• Strong experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts.
• Knowledge of litigation, arbitration and dispute management, with the ability to balance legal risk and business priorities.
• Experience advising on employment and labour law matters, investigations and workplace issues.
• Excellent legal research, analytical, written and verbal communication skills.
• The ability to manage multiple priorities, influence stakeholders and deliver high-quality work in a fast-moving environment.

Application Closing Date
27th August, 2026.

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

Job Title: Legal Officer

Job ID: R003006
Location: Nigeria

Description

• As a Legal Officer, you’ll help strengthen the legal, governance and compliance foundations that support our businesses across Africa.
• Working closely with legal, commercial and leadership teams, you’ll play an important role in managing legal and regulatory risk while enabling the business to move forward with confidence.
• From supporting commercial agreements to maintaining strong governance practices and compliance processes, your work will help protect our brands, people and reputation.
• This is a fantastic opportunity to build broad regional experience while contributing to a business that makes a meaningful impact in the markets we serve.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Help the business make informed decisions by drafting, reviewing and supporting the delivery of commercial contracts that balance opportunity and risk.
• Strengthen governance standards by supporting board, committee and statutory processes, ensuring key obligations are met accurately and on time.
• Drive consistency across African markets through effective compliance monitoring, policy implementation and record management.
• Maintain trusted legal and compliance information, ensuring critical documents, registers and contract records are accurate, accessible and up to date.
• Provide valuable legal research and insight that supports decision-making, policy development and business projects.
• Build strong relationships across commercial, supply chain, finance, HR and leadership teams to deliver practical legal and compliance support.

What You’ll Bring

• An LL.B degree and qualification as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court.
• Around 2-4 years of legal experience, ideally within a corporate, commercial or in-house environment.
• Experience drafting and reviewing commercial contracts and legal documentation.
• Exposure to company secretarial, corporate governance, compliance or statutory filing activities.
• Strong legal research, analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and practically.
• Confidence managing multiple priorities while maintaining attention to detail, accuracy and confidentiality.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and document management tools.

Application Closing Date
27th August, 2026.

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

Job Title: Financial Control & Compliance Lead

Job ID: JR002790
Location: Nigeria

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities

• Influence, communicate and liaise with all levels of the business, including management, ALT and Board level as required.
• Be a subject matter expert in the key risks and controls across PZC finance and Entity Level Controls – and wider across the group, as required.
• Create and develop relationships and networks across the whole of PZC, which will inform and create opportunities to cross-skill and share information, working in partnership, improving risk and controls understanding, awareness of the three lines of defense and business performance.
• Proactively use relationships and networks to identify and analyse opportunities for financial risk and control improvement.
• Liaise with internal and external auditors to share information and address risks / issues identified.
• Oversee the tracking, monitoring and reporting of remediation actions raised by internal and external audit – working with all business areas as required.
• Proactively analyse and investigate situations identified and create new, unique and pragmatic solutions to address/improve issues identified, including practical implementation of solutions, communication, stakeholder buy in and monitoring.
• Identify, escalate, define and execute special and ad hoc work as required, including leading and taking responsibility for financial internal control projects, and provide SME support for any special investigations and assistance to business areas where required
• Perform regular analytics and challenge status quo in identifying risks and controls across finance and work with the Process Owners to identify and implement financial improvement and/or efficiency improvements for the business as a whole, influencing management to implement the required process and behavioral changes e.g. compliance with travel and expense policies
• Using analytical data, identify areas for further investigation or remedial action, define and action as appropriate.
• Implement, monitor and action as required to ensure – robust testing and audit practices when performing all audit work.
• Reporting to senior management including status reports and dashboard including identification of themes and trends, creation of resultant actions / consequences.
• Perform testing and audit monitoring / follow-up work as appropriate to evaluate the existence and effectiveness of corrective action (via re-visit or contact with management).
• Identify requirements and monitor and report adherence to external business requirements and legislation Identify requirements and monitor and report adherence to internal policies and procedures across the group.
• Remain current with requirements and proactively identify opportunities to improve existing processes.
• Create new efficient and effective initiatives to address work requirements, e.g. new methods of testing, training or communication

Role requirements
Knowledge/Qualifications:

• University Degree
• Qualified accountant / Internal or external Auditor
• Minimum of 5 years’ post-qualification experience
• Proven track record when operating in an ICFR / SOX environment either locally or as part of a multi-national Group.

Technical/Professional Experience:

• Is considered to have foundation competency in Reporting, Performance Management, Analysis & Insight, and Business Understanding.
• Is considered to have fully operational competency in Accounting, Risk Management, Systems & Processes, and Business Impact.
• Is considered to have a mastery competency in Controls.
• FMCG experience preferred
• Experience of performing analytical review and systematically identifying which data to gather, which sources to use, to gather information from a variety of sources, analyse information, identify implications of data, draw appropriate conclusions, generate viable alternative solutions to a question or problem, and evaluate the consequences of choosing each alternative
• Knowledge of and ability to challenge financial processes.

Application Closing Date
8th August, 2026.

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

Job Title: Regional Commercial Manager

Job ID: JR002909
Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• As Regional Commercial Manager, you’ll lead the commercial agenda across a strategically important region, shaping how our brands grow in market and connect with consumers.
• This role exists to turn strategy into execution, ensuring our field sales teams deliver outstanding results across sales, distribution, profitability and brand visibility.
• You’ll influence business performance through strong leadership, effective channel management and close collaboration with colleagues across the organisation.
• It is an opportunity to make a visible impact while developing high-performing teams and future commercial leaders.
• This is a role with real influence. You’ll balance commercial ambition with long-term value, working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver results that matter.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead and inspire a high-performing field sales team to consistently deliver regional sales, profitability and distribution targets.
• Turn commercial strategy into action, ensuring brilliant execution of sales and channel marketing initiatives across the region.
• Drive sustainable business growth by managing both sell-in and sell-out performance while strengthening market presence for key brands and new product launches.
• Maximise the return on trade investment through effective distributor management, channel execution and commercial decision-making.
• Contribute to route-to-market, channel and customer strategies by providing market insight and helping shape plans that accelerate growth.
• Coach, develop and empower Zonal Managers and wider field teams, building capability and strengthening the pipeline of future leaders.

What You’ll Bring

• A Degree in any discipline; a postgraduate qualification would be an advantage.
• Strong commercial experience with a proven track record of delivering sales or marketing targets and business growth.
• Experience leading teams within field sales, customer management or channel management environments.
• Strong understanding of distributor management, route-to-market strategies and channel development.
• Excellent selling, negotiation, presentation and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and develop people while creating a culture of accountability and performance.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to balance strategic thinking and operational execution.

What You’ll Get In Return
My Benefits brings together your total rewards in one place, giving you the flexibility to choose what matter most. Key benefits we offer include:

• Competitive annual bonus, pension, life assurance and Share Incentive Plan
• Medical Insurance
• Discounted and complimentary PZ products
• Onsite gym (where available).

Application Closing Date
10th August, 2026.

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