Iraq Country Manager

Job Position: Country Manager Iraq

Function: Customer Development

Reports to: Regional Distributor Manager

Scope: Local

Location: Baghdad, Iraq

Business Context and Main Purpose of the Job

The Country Manager – Iraq needs to ensure:

• Deliver the growth plan for the country
• Bring local businesses in line with agreed category, country, and customer plans
• Build strong relationships with Customers for mutual business benefit
• Develop local Distributors teams to ensure leadership within local market
• Lead in market execution
• Build strong relationship with distributors and Key-customers

Main Accountabilities

• Create One, high performing and integrated Sales force within the distributors in line with principles of go to market organisational model and benchmark targets
• Deliver on Annual Plan
• Continuously improve Customer relations (profitability, growth of share, loyalty, satisfaction, etc)
• Lead Route to Market planning (Journey plan compliance, ECO…)
• Lead the growth on channel basis across all regions
• Bring Win with Customer programme to live and lead continuous improvement of the capabilities of the Distributor team
• Lead pilots of new innovative channels/ ways to get to shoppers

Key Interfaces

• Shopper and Customer marketing, Channel Category development, Customer development excellence, Supply Chain and Finance teams
• Distributor team
• Customers

Critical success Factors for the Job

• 5 to 8 years’ experience in sales within the Iraqi Market in a multinational environment and/or distributor.
• Iraqi National
• Speaks Arabic and English

Leadership Behaviours

•            Global Mindset

•            Real Accountability

•            External Orientation

•            Team Alignment

•            Action not Debate

•            Bias for Action

•            Agility

•            Customer and consumer focus

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