Vacancies at PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc

Since our founding in 1884, we have been creating products to delight, care for and nourish consumers. Across our core categories of Hygiene, Baby and Beauty, our trusted and well-loved brands include Carex, Cussons Baby, Sanctuary Spa and St. Tropez.

• Create and maintain the appropriate master data in APO for Demand planning.
• Follow up with Customer services and Deployment Planner to maintain system hygiene and health to ensure that demand signals are not polluted.
• Use historical sales trend to generate baseline statistical forecasts
• Responsible for the sales forecasting by working closely with other sales & marketing people in the demand planning phase of each months Business planning cycle.
• Establishes and maintains forecast analysis and reports for business decision making.
• Work with other colleagues in Commercial and Supply to achieve the business forecast accuracy Target for stable and unstable SKUs
• Co-ordinate the Monthly Forecast Consensus Meeting and follow up with team members on the actions that were agreed during the meeting.
• Load the agreed forecast volumes into APO before 5pm on the 1st Friday of every new month
• Makes decisions regarding abnormal demand, working closely with the supply manager on product availability issues.
• Proactively identify demand forecast risks and develop effective mitigation plans in collaboration with the commercial team.
• Participate actively in the NPD stage and gate process to ensure that EPDs are properly phased out before the launch of NPDs to reduce the risk of obsolesce.
• Collaborate with Marketing and Sales by providing and receiving input on a regular basis regarding product launches, portfolio optimization, rationale of commercial decisions, promotions, customer behavior and other sales drivers.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Minimum of university degree or equivalent in Finance or Business.
• Minimum of 3 to 5 years Planning experience in an FMCG environment. Demand planning experience will be an advantage.
• Two years’ relevant operational experience in at least one of the following areas – Sales, Customer Service, Supply Planning, Marketing, Finance (Business Planning / Dynamic Forecasting)
• Expert Level proficiency in Microsoft Office Excel
• Relevant certification is an additional advantage
• Meticulous and analytical approach to data
• Good interpersonal, facilitation and Communication Skills
•  Be innovative and proactive.
• Be assertive, courageous, and persistent.

Job Purpose:

• This role is charged with the responsibility of ensuring network availability across all sites

Responsible to: IT Site Support Manager

Responsible for: No direct reports

Key Accountabilities:

• Timely support of IT related issues across the factory
• Provide desktop/Laptop immediate support for all the users both on/off site
• Support TWMS system within the business warehouse
• Support WBNET System across the site
• Provide level-0 Support to PZW SAP across the site
• Work closely with the Local service desk to priorities and mange open calls related to PZ Wilmar factory
• Provide Support for Handheld terminals, Printers, Label printers and other devices across the site
• Identify LAN/WAN related issues, log calls and work closely with PZ Staffs to resolve incidents
• Test and evaluate New IT technology
• Support facilities across Meeting room, Access Controls and CCTVs on site
• Support Avaya system, MTR, and any other communication technology across the site
• Provide appropriate Support for new users across the site
• Monitor all IT related equipment on site and report any abnormality
• Work closely with approved Service Provider (WAN and LAN) to Support and resolve related LAN and WAN issues across Nigeria
• Support the investigation of Network related issues across other PZ & Wilmar operating Units outside Nigeria especially during service outage
• Align with global team and vendors to execute Network Projects, Services Improvement plan and Operations across Nigeria
• Ensure incident management are aligned with PZC and Wilmar standard operating procedures

Key Stakeholders: Internal/ External Relationships

• Develop robust relationships with strategic stakeholders.

Persons Specification :

Knowledge / Skills/ Qualifications/ Technical/ Professional experience:

• Knowledge/Qualifications:
• Educated to bachelor’s degree/HND at least degree level in an IT-related field.
• 3+ years’ IT experience within retail or an FMCG.
• Experience of working in a matrix organization.
• Experience of successfully working in cross functional teams
• Experience of initiating and creating business process improvements with IT
• Ability to demonstrate planning and organizational skills
• Ability to demonstrate creative problem solving
• Strong team player, able to work closely with other IT employees in the Global and Regional teams.
• Self-motivated.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Fluent in English
• International mind set
• Engaging and collaborative style
• Good influencing skills.
• Good planning and organizational skills
• Analytical and data literate
• Positive outlook
• Good Project Management skill

Deadline: Not Stated

How to Apply: Interested candidates should use the links below to apply: