About this role
The role is for someone to operate and grow a flagship retail outlet for Farmacy Foods & Fruits in Lagos, focusing on daily store operations, sales, stock management, and building a customer community. It involves hands-on responsibilities in-store leadership, customer service, and coordinating fulfilment with delivery partners. The job also covers creating promotional content, managing WhatsApp communities, and organising events to drive customer acquisition and orders. The position targets candidates with experience in food retail, groceries, hospitality, or e-commerce who can handle perishable products and use digital tools. This is a practical, growth-oriented role with potential to expand as the business grows.
What you would do
- Open and prepare the store for daily operation, manage product displays and staff coordination.
- Oversee stock management, freshness, storage, supplier liaison, and replenishment to minimise spoilage.
- Track sales, expenses, stock movements and daily cash/POS reconciliation.
- Create social media content, promotions and offers to generate orders.
- Build and manage WhatsApp subscriber communities for announcements, pre-orders and repeat purchases.
- Coordinate order fulfilment, packaging, delivery partners and customer follow-up.
- Organise activations, village market fairs and sales exhibitions and measure their impact on sales and customer acquisition.
- Utilise digital systems and AI tools to improve recordkeeping, content, and customer communication.
- Monitor and improve customer service and operational processes as the business scales.
What they are asking for
- 2 to 4 years of relevant experience in food retail, grocery, hospitality, e-commerce or related field.
- Ability to sell and handle perishable products.
- Comfort with spreadsheets, WhatsApp Business and social media management.
- Demonstrated initiative, commercial discipline and practical problem-solving with evidence of prior work.
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