Philemon Owona

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

> Coordinate order management across multiple stores/customer service and distribution centers.

> Manage complex, overlapping order scenarios and intricate product configurations.

> Help built a strategy that increases revenue through higher order fill rates, cross-selling, up-selling, and put in place a process that helps to execute pricing and promotions accurately to specific target market segments.

> Improve profit margins through profit margin protection controls and reduced order-entry costs

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

> To participate and to help oversee creative initiatives and create effective campaigns within brands budget limits.

> To identify distinct strategies for each brand; assess and develop features to differentiate company brands and infuse them in the brand management strategy.

> To provide branding direction and standards, develop and execute brand marketing programs.

> To provide coordination and align any brand strategy with corporate marketing plan.

> To work with R&D teams on market requirements and products features.

> To synthesize complex or diverse information.

> To use intuition and skills in order to complement data and assist the company with media strategy.

Specific Achievements

> Participated in the development and the execution of brand marketing programs.

> Oversaw creative initiatives and created effective campaigns within brands budget limits.

> Collaborated successfully with the R&D team

> Followed instructions, responded to management direction; took responsibility for own actions; kept commitments; committed to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals; Completed tasks on time or notified appropriate person with an alternate plan. 

Skills

> Understand and make use of brand equity

> Able to carry out an audit identifying the key benefits of the company product, evaluate the available markets and build competitive advantage into the planning

> Use theoretical models effectively in the brand/Product management work

> Segment the market, target and position the offer

> Manage the product brand portfolio more profitably

> Identify and define the marketing mix in accordance with targeted customer priorities

> Understand promotional tools and align them powerfully with pre-planned objectives

> Create a sound sales forecast

> Understand and use financial data to analyze performance and set prices 

> Proven ability to create, implement and manage large scale projects/activities

> Able to maintain schedules and work within time and budget constraints 

> Bring together Senior Management’s harvesting strategy and all levels of objectives to fit together in a coherent and mutually achievable manner.

Specific Duties and Responsilities

> Business and Store Management

> Supervision of 18 Staff members

> Improvement of the existing customer and prices strategies

> The coordination of daily operations, sales promotions activities, preparation of merchandise displays and advertising.

> The Business/Store/Supermarket performance objectives setting up

> The rationalization and the effectiveness of the grocery department products portfolio

Specific Achievements

> Performed and or supervised employees engaged in taking of and controlling inventories, reconciling cash with sales receipts, keeping operating records and prepared daily records of transactions.

> Typically, a combination of over two years of directly related training and/or experience  is generally required for carrying out the responsibilities for the grocery department job. When it comes to me, only two months of training were sufficient enough to lead the department team.

> Implemented the corporate /store level objectives and customer satisfaction.

> Improved the products pricing within the executive and the company constraints and the rationalization of the grocery department products portfolio.

> Established a new ordering and the quality control system of the supermarket (with respect to the grocery department).

> Helped put in place a new marketing strategy which increased income by 15% in two trimesters from June to December 2008.

Specific job tasks and responsibilities

> Reconcile and maintain balance sheet accounts

> General ledger operations

> Prepare journal entries

> Assist with monthly closings and preparation of monthly financial statements

> Assist with preparation of monthly financial reports

> Assist with accounts receivable and accounts payable

> Assist with tax computations and payments

> Assist in budgets and forecasts

> Assist with payroll administration

> Account/bank reconciliations

> Assist with preparation and coordination of the audit process

> Assist with implementing and maintaining internal financial controls and procedures

Specific Achievements 

> Implemented accounting principles and practices with an emphasized attention to details and accuracy

> Scheduled, monitored and participated in various accounting tasks by keeping the accounting data as accurate as required

> Performed successful financial reporting through required technical accounting analysis and relevant accounting software