Job Openings at Seven-Up Bottling Company Limited – 4 Positions

Seven-Up Bottling Company Limited is recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Metal Printing Manager
2.) Datecoder Technician
3.) Trade Marketing Manager
4.) Research and Development Officer (Home and Personal Care)

Seven-Up Bottling Company Limited is one of the largest manufacturing companies in Nigeria, producing and distributing some of the favourite most- loved soft drink brands in the country like; 7up, Pepsi, Mirinda, Mountain Dew, H2oH!, Teem, Lipton Ice Tea and Aquafina premium drinking water.

SBC boasts of nine bottling plants with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities strategically located across various regions in the country.

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities
Successful candidate will be responsible for the following among others:

• Lead the printing department in achieving organization objectives.
• Source raw materials for the printing and coating process
• Identify and rectify mechanical problems on the Crabtree printing press, coating machine and allied equipment
• Design and develop printing jobs with computer to plate (CTP) machine
• Mix inks to suit desired colors
• Plan and procure spares
• Ensure production planning and control

Qualifications
For this role, our expectations are as follows:

• HND or University degree in Printing Technology
• Minimum of ten year experience in a reputable metal printing company
• You must have verifiable experience in graphic art reproduction and CorelDraw
• Demonstrable proficiency in CMYK color separations and spot colors to produce images of high resolution
• Proficient in Excel, Word, Outlook
• Possess excellent English language communication skill

Application Closing Date
18th September, 2020.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidate should send an email stating the postion you're applying for in the subject of the mail, your Cover Letter as the body of the mail, and your CV as an attachment to: careers@sevenup.org

Note: Only shorlisted applicants will be contacted.

Location: Lagos

Details

• The Datecoding Technician would coordinate all preventive and condition based maintenance activities for the smooth running of datecoding machines at the right cost and time.
• Responsibilities of the position covers maintenance planning, major annual repairs, equipment monitoring, breakdown maintenance as well as capability development of associates.
• He/she will be directly responsible for the operation, setting, calibration, change-over and repair of datecoding equipment.

Other key responsibilities include

• Participate in daily and weekly equipment inspection and documentation of findings.
• Keep record of logs,  material consumption and state of health of datecoders
• Support production to Regularly achieve set production KPI targets
• Identify skill Gap, Coach and Mentor associates

Requirements

• HND in a related Engineering Course.
• Minimum of two years working experience in datecoding, maintenance and operation in the FMCG industry.

Application Closing Date
14th September, 2020.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV with a Cover Letter as the body of the email to: careers@sevenup.org

Note: Only qualified candidates would be shortlisted.

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role - Trade Marketing Manager

• The Trade Marketing Manager is responsible for developing and executing the Trade Marketing strategy of the Brand to achieve defined business objectives (KPIs) with the Brand Team and responsible for ensuring the proper development, execution and benchmarking of all programs designed to increase brand visibility.

The duties of the Trade Marketing Manager include:

• Leading new product launch efforts including communication strategy, merchandising procurement, training tools and related activities.
• Managing all exclusive marketing, selected advertising and promotional activities across all sales channels.
• Creating promotional forecasts and tracking promotional performance while working closely with sales to develop key account specific initiatives.
• Planning marketing and promotion timelines for the all brands in close coordination with the sales team.
• Acting as brand custodian; ensuring that brand saliency is maintained at all points.
• Liaising with brand team to develop brand thematic promotion plan in line with brand strategy.
• Monitoring the promotion progress with timely tracking on sales order, budget, display materials, off-take performance.
• Identifying and developing programs and tools to increase brand presence, market share and improve customer satisfaction
• Monitoring and evaluating trade marketing programs and activities to measure effectiveness and recommendation of improvements as needed.
• Developing, proposing and managing the trade promotion expense budget.

Requirements

• A first degree
• Minimum of 8-10 years of work experience, 5 of which should be a managerial role in a Trade Marketing position
• Strong Market Knowledge
• Knowledge of Consumer Insights
• Category Management

Application Closing Date
10th September, 2020.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@sevenup.org with the "Job title" as subject of the email.

Note: Only qualified candidates will be contacted.

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

About the Role

• We are looking to hire a Research and Development Executive to manage our product innovation and development.
• He / she will be responsible for handling the various stages of product development from carrying out market surveys and providing data on what products are needed, to prototyping and testing before the product goes into full production.
• The R&D executive will play a very crucial role in ensuring that we give our consumers the very best products.
• He / she will make sure that all new products and innovations meet (or even surpass) all regulatory and statutory requirements.

The duties of the R&D Executive include:

• Managing the end to end development process from concept to launch, ensuring complete visibility and traceability of work, this involves:
• Horizon scanning for innovative ingredients and technologies.
• Modifying existing products and processes and developing new ones.
• Selecting raw materials and other ingredients from suppliers.
• Continuous quality improvement and cost reduction exercises for existing products.
• Coordinating launches of new products or running trials alongside/together with product development.
• Dealing with any customer complaint investigations or product issues.
• Compiling / checking / approving product specifications and labeling.
• Working on packaging innovation and technology.
• Work within the budgetary constraints set for projects.
• Project categories will range from minor (e.g. product extension, Ingredients change) to major (e.g. disruptive innovation projects or creating new categories).
• Coordinating within Cross-functional teams (CFT) to ensure delivery as per agreed timelines.
• Timely & Appropriate inputs for successfully resolving process / product issues at manufacturing locations.

Requirements

• A Graduate / Master's degree in Cosmetic Science, Chemistry or Biochemistry.
• Creative product development experience (related to Home & Personal Care products) and able to demonstrate a thorough understanding on formulation strategies and manufacturing technologies.
• At least 3 years of experience of leading new product development projects from concept to test and final implementation.
• Excellent project management, communication and presentation skills.
• Good understanding of ingredients and processes.
• Good understanding of packaging and its interactions with product and acceptance through shelf life.

Application Closing Date
9th September, 2020.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV with a Cover Letter as the body of the email to: careers@sevenup.org with the "Job title" as subject of the email.