Position: Sales Marketing Manager
Category: Marketing
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 6


I am a professional in FMCG sector with over 5+year work experiences, cumulated working for local and global companies, such as Nestle and Unilever. During this span of time, I have been involved in brand and category management, skillful of different aspects of leading the category, ranging from marketing, trade marketing, supply chain, finance, and sales aspects. 

Currently, in my assistant country manager role at Unilever, I am leading Home&Hygiene and Beauty&Personal Care categories in the country level in broad spectrums with a sales turnover of over 15 million USD. I am also responsible for category channel planning, and distributor management, consisting of 4 region managers and 87 sales representatives and supervisors. In addition to this, I am also charged with conducting sales meetings with clients on a consistent basis to communicate sales and marketing (NPD) objectives.

In my previous role as the marketing coordinator, I have developed and implemented the marketing strategies for Nestle’s coffee, confectionery and dairy brands, being the only marketing representative in the country, as well as managing the marketing budget in the country.

Due to my hard work and dedication, I have been awarded as HPO Champion at Nestle for proactive cooperation and result focus approach and promoted to the managerial position after a year of work as the marketing coordinator. Working as the regional category development manager, I have planned and executed different promotional strategies, campaigns for different channels for the entire Nestle portfolio. As well as distributor and sales team managed under this role to ensure the shelf standards and product placement and visibility is met according to guidelines in KA&TT outlets. 

I am aware that this position will attract many well qualified applicants. However, I strongly believe that considering my five-year experiences in category and brand management at FMCG sector, and most importantly, my genuine passion for working in this field will enable me to be a substantial asset to your company and to derive great personal benefits from working environment.

 
Sincerely,
Lala Ahmadzada