Vacancies at PZ Cussons Nigeria

Vacancies at PZ Cussons Nigeria

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: Brand Manager – Home Care

Job Requisition ID: JR001610
Location: Nigeria
Reports to: Category Lead, Home Care

Job Purpose

• Utilise a thorough understanding of the African consumer, customer and competitor environment to develop compelling brand strategies, aligned to group brand strategies

Significant Relationships (Internal & external)

• Regional Marketing team
• Brand Development & Activation Team
• Cross-functional teams from Finance, Commercial, Supply Chain, HR, NPD, Consumer Insights, Digital
• Advertising agencies & Service providers

Key Accountabilities

• Contribute to the creation and development of brand strategy to grow brands market share volume/value and profitability; and oversee strategy implementation.
• Support the delivery of overall budgeted profitability of the brand by developing solid brand strategies that grow and sustain brand performance.
• Monitor and report the regional brand’s performance through brand health indicators (NNS, GM, MC) and key consumer KPIs (awareness, trial, attribute rating etc.)
• Explore & exploit new growth opportunities for the brand.
• Initiate and lead the NPD process ensuring that its requirements are managed and delivered according to targets with clear hand over to CBUs at Gate 2 .
• Collate local consumer insights and output from research plans to feed into the development of the brand strategy.
• Define pricing policy for products within the brand portfolio in the Region.
• Develop regional communication material aligned to the brand strategy and that support the delivery of CBU brand plans
• Participate actively in company-wide initiatives as required – e.g. Margin Improvement
• Proactively identify sources and resource needs to support brand growth

Job Context & Special Features:
May require:

• Significant in-country and regional travel
• International travel
• Flexibility to work on weekends

Qualification, Experience & Competencies
Qualifications / Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5-7 years demonstrated experience in Brand Management
• Professional Qualification in Marketing is essential
• IT savvy including the use of MS Office Suite of Applications

Capabilities / Technical skills:
Consumer Champion:

• Insight generation (Developed)
• Communication (Proven strength)
• Digital (Proven strength)

Brand Champion:

• Brand propositions (Developed)
• Strategy (Developed)

Profit and Growth Champion:

• Commercial delivery (Proven strength)
• RTM (Proven strength)

Innovation Champion:

• Innovation (Developed)
• NPD and PLM (Proven strength)

Business Leader:

• Personal leadership (Developed)
• Personal drive (Developed)
• Talent development (Developed).

Application Closing Date
27th September, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Instrumentation Engineer

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• To ensure efficient implementation and coordination of all site instrumentation services that will optimize operation strategies in improving productivity, improving product quality, reducing downtime, reducing waste and developing people’s skills.

Responsibilities
Operational:

• Ensures critical instrumentation systems and processes operate effectively, efficiently and safely.
• Ensures that maintenance cost is tracked and gradual reduction is noticed.
• Ensures that machines operate with minimal downtime
• Ensures reliability and maintainability of equipment.

Leadership:

• Assess technical competence of team and develop plans to address areas of improvement.
• Lead team by example.
• Plan human and material resources for execution of planned maintenance jobs.
• Ensure training/coaching of team for improved productivity and multi-skilling.
• Ensure team adheres strictly to HSE rules and regulations.
• To ensure the effectiveness of the Quality Management System (QMS) and improve on the system.

Innovations:

• Undertake continuous improvement activities to improve uptime, quality and reduce operational cost.

Key Accountability:

• Key Activities: To consistently and visibly demonstrate their personal commitment to an involvement in occupational Health and Safety issues at all times.
• Performance Indicators: Employees, contractors/suppliers and visitor Knowledge and awareness of site policies
• Key Activities: Ensures instrumentation systems and processes operate effectively, efficiently and safely.
• Performance Indicators: Documented calibration schedules.
• Key Activities: Ensures that machines operate with minimal downtime.
• Performance Indicators: Improved uptime
• Key Activities: Takes responsibility for compliance with all EMS related activities in the department.
• To prevent, reduce or control environmental pollution arising from environmental aspects identified in the department as documented in the EMS Manual, Departmental Aspect and Impacts register, EMS related SOPs and other relevant documents.
• Monitor and prepare environmental performance reports relating to the extent of compliance with EMS requirements

Performance Indicators:

• Prepare environmental performance reports in compliance to EMS requirements
• Key Activities: To drive and maintain a high performance in Occupational, Health & Safety and Environmental Care standard/practise
• To consistently and visibly demonstrate their personal commitment to an involvement in occupational Health and Safety issues at all times.
• Ensuring that all incident involving and/ or potentially involving, injury to persons, to property or environment are reported immediately
• Ensure that Health, Safety and Environmental issues are fully considered and successfully resolved during the design, installation and commissioning of all building/process/ procedural modifications and that an appropriate HSE Audit has been successfully completed before modification is handed over to operational management.
• To maintain procedures to enable a quick response to emergency situation if it occurs and minimise its impact on the Health & Safety of employees, contractors, stakeholder and Environmental
• To heighten employees’ HSE awareness and provide appropriate training for employees, emphasising individual responsibility for sound HSE management.
• To be aware of the hazards in the workplace under his control and control measures to reduce the risk presented by those hazards.
• To develop and maintain appropriate two-way communication and training programmes on HSE matters.

Performance Indicators:

• Employees, contractors/suppliers and visitor Knowledge and awareness of site policies
• Reduction in number of factory incidents
• Number of Management of change
• Response and recovery time
• Training Hour recorded and Reduction in number of incidents
• Reduction in number of incidents
• Training Hour recorded
• Key Accountability: To coordinate Good manufacturing Practice activities on site in line with agreed GMP standards (PZC GMP Standard/NAFDAC GMP requirements).

Requirements

• Knowledge, Skills & Experience Needed:
• Required Qualifications: B.Sc. / BEng.   Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Required Experience:

• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft office suite
• Excellent Analytical and Numerical skills
• Strong knowledge of monitoring and control systems, programmable logic controller
• Ability to work under pressure
• Sound knowledge of electrical circuit diagram interpretation.
• Ability to handle electronic equipment and tools.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills with a good eye for details.
• Excellent planning and scheduling skills.
• Good communication skills.

Application Closing Date
22nd September, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Head of Category – Home Care

Job Requisition ID: JR001621
Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full-time
Reports to: Head of Marketing, Family Care

Job Purpose

• Utilise a thorough understanding of the African consumer, customer and competitor environment to develop compelling category/brand strategies, aligned to group brand strategies

Significant  Relationships
(Internal & external):

• Regional Marketing team
• Brand Activation team
• Cross-functional teams from Finance, Commercial, Supply Chain, HR, NPD, Consumer Insight, Digital
• Advertising agencies & Service providers

Key Accountabilities

• Create and develop category/brand strategies to grow the category/brands market share volume/value and profitability
• Support the delivery of overall budgeted profitability of the Category by developing solid brand strategies that grow and sustain brand performance
• Monitor and report the regional category performance through brand health indicators (NNS, GM, MC) and key consumer KPIs (awareness, trial, attribute rating etc.)
• Explore & exploit new growth opportunities for the category.
• Lead the NPD process ensuring that its requirements are managed and delivered according to targets with clear hand over to CBUs at Gate 2
• Collate regional consumer insights and output from research plans to feed into the development of the brand strategy
• Define pricing policy for products within the category/brand portfolio in the Region
• Ensure development of regional communication material aligned to the category/brand strategy and that support the delivery of CBU brand plans
• Participate actively in company-wide initiatives as required – e.g. Margin Improvement
• Proactively identify sources and resource needs to support brand growth

Job Context & Special Features:
May require

• Significant in-country and regional travel
• International travel
• Flexibility to work on weekends

Qualification, Experience & Competencies
Qualifications Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Over 7 years demonstrated experience in Brand Management
• Professional Qualification in Marketing is essential
• Post graduate degree is desirable
• IT savvy including the use of MS Office Suite of Applications

Capabilities / Technical skills
Consumer Champion:

• Insight generation (Proven strength)
• Communication (Mastery)
• Digital (Proven strength)

Brand Champion:

• Brand propositions (Proven strength)
• Strategy (Proven strength)

Profit and Growth Champion:

• Commercial delivery (Mastery)
• RTM (Mastery)

Innovation Champion:

• Innovation (Proven strength)
• NPD and PLM (Mastery)

Business Leader:

• Personal leadership (Proven strength)
• Personal drive (Proven strength)
• Talent development (Proven strength)

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Quality Assurance Technician

Job Requisition ID: JR000949
Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Carry out prompt quality Control activities cutting across in-process checks, results from the laboratory and inspection of final packaging quality of finished goods.
• Take charge of all production activity as regards quality per shift and enforces good hygiene during production.
• Conduct final inspection on products in store and ensure that status labels are well placed on products and materials.
• Involve in the full coverage of the entire manufacturing processes by   monitoring and controlling of the quality of intermediates and finished products.
• Anchors the responsibility of ensuring that manufacturing batch records and Lot   packaging records are filled adequately to ensure complete documentation.
• Generate routine QA compliance   shift reports and communicates all non-compliance observations and the corrective action taken in the reports as well.
• Carry out the withdrawal of retain samples for storage to ensure representative retention of Products before the expiration of such products and ensuring full inventory of retained samples with GMP expectations on documentation.
• Partake in all trouble shooting activities that may occur on production lines to ensure that the root cause is identified and solution found without compromising quality.
• Carry out the general quality inspection of finished goods/raw materials in the warehouse and other storage rooms to ensure finished goods/raw materials are kept at specified storage conditions.
• To ensure compliance with relevant QMS, Food Safety, OHS & EMS policies and procedures. To identify and rate aspects for the departmental (QA) activities and develop programs where necessary, to help control those aspects that could have adverse impact on the environment.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online