Commercial Manager
Lagos, Nigeria
Manuchar is a leading distributor of chemicals across emerging markets and actively trades several other commodities, with Belgian roots.
For the position of Commercial Manager Nigeria, we are looking for a colleague to help us expand our business in this region from scratch.
The job
- Your biggest challenge: develop the chemical market in a challenging environment.
- Grow a portfolio of profitable customers & transactions through the creation of strong relationships with trustworthy customers.
- As this is a commercial role (business development) you take responsibility to set up and pursue the (trading) market development strategy for Nigeria.
Your profile
Successful candidates for this role will ideally have:
- Looking for a challenging job opportunity within business development.
- Able to build relationships and deal with various types of people & cultures.
- Understanding the complexity of a commercial role in Nigeria (such as forex).
- Intrapreneurial with a proactive mindset. Pragmatic and no-nonsense mentality.
- Commercial prospecting and negotiation skills. Putting yourself in the customer’s shoes.
- Enthusiastic and goal-oriented person who likes to take initiative with a large degree of autonomy. Not minding knocking on the same door 10 times.
- A commercial feeling with Nigeria and/or other countries in West Africa is a plus.
- Speaking English fluently, and every other language is a plus.
Manuchar offers you
- A job full of variety with long-term perspectives in an international environment.
- Working in a supportive environment, together with the other team members.
- Training and mentoring to develop your career to the fullest.
- Cooperation with motivated & skilled colleagues in open company culture.
- A company that wants to invest in your growth.
- An opportunity with variety, challenging opportunities, autonomy and responsibility.
- An attractive remuneration package including fringe benefits.