Hamilton Lloyd and Associates – Our client is a Quick Service Outlet chain with over 25 years of experience in providing rich pastries, Nigerian and continental dishes for the family.
Due to internal expansion, we are looking to hire a highly tenacious candidate for the position below:
Job Title: Marketing Manager
Location: Lagos
Job Summary
- The Marketing Manager is responsible for the planning, direction, implementation and evaluation of marketing programs and strategies.
- Specifically supporting business strategies and projects including but not limited to sales growth, market penetration, customer retention, quality, image, improved profit margins and improved market share.
Job Responsibilities
- Responsible for managing a comprehensive marketing strategy (with tactical outcomes and timelines).
- Develops and manages systematic approach to implement and track marketing projects for region and corporate team.
- Focus groups, surveying, facility mapping, trend development, and competitive pricing analysis.
- Frequent client interaction reporting project status, planning innovation and presenting new ideas.
- Ensures necessary training and support are provided to the team and that brand standards are fully executed at all identified points of service, resulting in brand consistency.
- Supports front line management with administration of marketing training and development programs for employees.
- Assist in Safety communications.
- Investigates market trends; communicates results as they relate to the consumer, client, and region and/or designated accounts.
- Provides innovation in reporting and alternative market facing materials.
- Fosters long-term learning and development well organized, strong process management/organization skills and detail oriented.
Main Specifications
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business Administration or a related field.
- Experience: Minimum 6-8 years of marketing or related experience within the food and beverage, quick service restaurant, or consumer products industries.
Required Skills and Abilities:
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate data, trends and consumer preferences and translate that into innovative concepts and solutions.
- A proven ability to increase sales and measure the impact/ROI on implementation of programs.
- Must be comfortable working in a client environment and having demonstrated the ability to communicate recommendations and solutions.
- A creative mind with “out-of-the-box” thinking skills is strongly desired.
- Digital marketing experience preferred.
- Ability to present ideas and influence others without authority, and have strong communication skills; interacting with clients, vendors and corporate leadership.
Job Title: Executive Chef
Location: Lagos
Job Summary
- The Chef oversees a restaurant’s kitchen staff, handle administrative tasks, prepare meals, and plan menus.
Responsibilities
- Develop Work within month set food cost budget, adjust requisitions reduces waste and spoilage.
- Creates and implements menus, recipes, and costing and food quality standards.
- Controls all food requisitions and orders to ensure proper quantities and best quality is purchased.
- Control and direct the food preparation process and any other relative activities
- Must ensure that the food produced in the kitchen is presented properly and is of uniform quality
- Educate and train team members in compliance with company standards, service behaviors and country regulations.
Required Qualification and Experience
- A Degree in relevant course.
- Minimum of five (6) years’ work experience.
Additional Requirements:
- Proven experience as business manager or relevant role
- Excellent organizational and leadership skills
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities
- Thorough understanding of diverse business processes and strategy development
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office, databases and information systems
- Good understanding of research methods and data analysis techniques.
Job Title: Business Development Manager
Location: Lagos
Job Summary
- The Business Development Manager shall work to improve an organization’s market position and achieve financial growth.
- The incumbent shall be responsible for locating, developing, defining, negotiating, and closing business relationships.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and develop a wide network of contacts and build effective relationships within the market place through which you will generate opportunities for new business.
- Opening profitable new accounts and build strong relationships with new customers.
- Maintain a strong knowledge of market trends including client and competitor activity and industry innovations.
- Help prepare and deliver all aspects of the strategic sales process including awareness campaigns, presentations, exhibitions and sales collateral.
- Work closely with the Operations team to identify new service stream opportunities with existing customers
- Convert leads to order and account manage the delivery of services through mobilization
- Actively contribute towards the successful delivery of the Divisions business plan and targets.
Qualification and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degrees in Marketing or other related courses.
- Minimum of 5 years’ related work experience
Additional Requirements:
- The ideal candidate must have an excellent knowledge of food service and generating revenue through new sales prospecting and client development.
- Significant experience of new business development within the food industry.
- Experience of developing cost proposals and writing tender documents.
- Experience of presenting at tender presentations.
- Proven track record of selling and achieving a sales target.
- Thorough understanding of the bid, tender and decision making process.
- Strong financial and commercial acumen.
- An understanding of contract legislation would also be an advantage.
- Demonstrate a total passion for food and service, including an understanding of a range of food trends and insights.
Job Title: Pastry Chef
Location: Lagos
Job Summary
- The Pastry Chef shall responsible for the preparation a variety of pastries and other baked goods.
- The ideal candidate will be well-versed in culinary arts with a passion for sweet and delicious creations. They must adhere to health and safety standards to provide clients with the best possible serving.
- The goal is to enhance customer satisfaction so that we can maintain and expand our clientele.
Responsibilities
- Prepare a wide variety of goods such as cakes, cookies, pies, bread etc. following traditional and modern recipes
- Create new and exciting desserts to renew our menus and engage the interest of customers
- Decorate pastries using different icings, toppings etc. to ensure the presentation will be beautiful and exciting
- Monitor stocks for baking ingredients such as flour, sugar etc. and make appropriate orders within budget
- Check quality of material and condition of equipment and devices used for cooking
- Guide and motivate pastry assistants and bakers to work more efficiently.
- Identify staffing needs and help recruit and train personnel.
- Maintain a lean and orderly cooking station and adhere to health and safety standards
Main Specifications
- Education: Certificate in culinary arts, pastry-making, baking or relevant field
- Experience: Minimum of three (3) years’ work experience.
- Working knowledge of baking with ingredient limitations (pastries that are gluten free, sugarless etc.)
Required Skills and Abilities:
- Proven experience as Pastry Chef, baker or relevant role
- Great attention to detail and creativity
- Organizing and leadership skills
- Willingness to replenish professional knowledge
- In depth knowledge of sanitation principles, food preparation and baking techniques and nutrition
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV’s, with the job title as subject, to: preye@hamiltonlloydandassociates.com
Note: Only successful candidates will be contacted.
Deadline 14th February, 2017.
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