Country Manager
Aujan Industries
Amman, Jordan
Ref: HP230-04
Aujan Industries

The Role


The Role


Job role......

• Formulate, direct and coordinate marketing activities and policies to promote products and services, working with advertising and promotion agencies.
• Identify, develop and evaluate marketing strategy, based on knowledge of establishment objectives, market characteristics.
• Review financial statements, sales and activity reports, and other performance data to measure goal achievement and to determine areas needing cost reduction and program improvement.
• Negotiate contracts with vendors and distributors to manage product distribution, establishing distribution.
• Confer with legal staff to resolve problems, such as copyright infringement and royalty sharing with outside producers and distributors.
• Coordinate and participate in promotional activities and trade shows, working with developers, and advertisers to market products.
• Monitor business to ensure that they efficiently and effectively provide needed services while staying within the budgetary limits.
• Work closely with the Head of Business Unit for achieving other business goals.

Requirements


Requirements


Qualification and Experience....

• University Graduate. A Degree in Marketing or Business Administration will be an added advantage.
• A proven career record of 14 to 16 years in marketing field within FMCG segment.
• Minimum 2 years as Country Manager / General Manager in FMCG industry, preferably in soft drink or beverage manufacturing sector.


Core Competency / Essential Attributes....

• Marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
• Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, and coordinating people and resources.
• Strong planning, organization and team building skills.
• Strategic thinking ability; Positive attitude, passion and commitment.
• An active listener and good communicator with an aptitude to interact with all levels of people.
• Motivates, develops, and directs people as they work, identify the best people for the job.
• Excellent communication skills with good command of Arabic and English.
• Computer literate with proficiency in Ms Office.

About the Company


About the Company


Aujan Industries is the largest privately owned beverage company in the GCC, with brand marketing, manufacturing, sales and distribution capabilities within the beverages and confectionery categories for proprietary and third party brands in the Middle East.

We are one of the top 100 companies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with annualized company sales revenue of US$.400 million p.a. In 2005, Aujan Industries announced the celebration of its centenary year, a milestone which undoubtedly highlights Aujan Industries as the region's most famous homegrown beverages company.

Aujan Industries have successfully evolved and reinvented itself over the past 100 years, having initially established itself in 1905 as a trading company in Bahrain. The evolution of the company has seen Aujan Industries develop one of the most powerful and expansive direct distribution systems within the GCC, state of the art technological leadership in the manufacture of its products, well entrenched strategic alliances and relationships with leading international brands, high quality, innovative and well known proprietary brands, as well as the most recent successful entry of the brands in export markets.

Today, Aujan Industries has operations in 12 regional locations, with more than 2200 employees and brand presence in over 25 countries within the GCC, North Africa, Iran, Iraq, Levant, and Central Asia. And recently we have signed a contract with a corporate business house in India for marketing and distribution our brands.

The development of our brands are fundamental to our success and our future, and they represent the values and tastes of the region as we build a powerful and relevant new age beverage and confectionery business through our Barbican, Rani, Vimto, Hani brands.

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