Commercial Head Manager: Retail (Agricultural industry)
Acumen Resources Development (Pty) Ltd. · Sandton, Gauteng · R1.4M CTC
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Role Purpose
The Commercial Manager – Retail is a strategic leadership role responsible for driving the end-to-end retail commercial agenda across South Africa. The incumbent will define and execute integrated commercial strategies that deliver sustainable revenue growth, margin expansion, and market share, while ensuring operational excellence across sales, category management, pricing, promotions, and customer engagement.
This role plays a critical part in aligning commercial strategy with execution across sales and marketing in close alignment with operations, supply chain and finance, enabling a high performance, data-driven, and customer-centric retail organisation.
Looking for a strategic leader with a Bayer-type/National level background to drive Market Growth & Commercial Pricing. The ideal candidate has e xp in Farming Inputs/Nutrition/Agricultural products, is an Expert in Pricing Strategy and has a National strategic mindset
Strategic Mandate
- Shape and execute the retail commercial strategy to achieve long-term growth and profitability objectives
- Translate market intelligence, customer insights, and competitive dynamics into actionable commercial plans
- Drive disciplined execution across all retail and commercial levers to maximise value creation
- Enable cross-functional alignment to ensure consistency, efficiency, and accountability in delivery
- Lead transformation initiatives that enhance commercial capability, systems, and processes
- Lead and strategically direct research and development (R&D) initiatives aligned to commercial value creation
Key Performance Areas
- Maximise business profitability across all targeted market segments and retail channels
- Achieve approved sales volume, revenue, and margin budgets
- Drive effective category, pricing, and promotional strategies to support retail performance
- Build and maintain strong customer relationships and industry partnerships
- Analyse industry trends, customer behaviour, and internal performance to inform strategic direction
- Provide leadership, guidance, and strategic direction to the Sales & Marketing and commercial teams
- Foster an environment that enables timely, informed operational decision-making aligned to organisational objectives
- Drive a high-performance culture across the commercial and retail functions
- Maintain strong customer visibility through regular engagement across regions and retail touchpoints
- Drive R&D initiatives focused on identifying commercial opportunities, improving product relevance, and enhancing customer value within retail markets
Key Responsibilities
Commercial Strategy (Retail Focus)
- Develop and implement integrated regional commercial and retail strategies aligned to organisational objectives and market positioning
- Define category, pricing, and promotional strategies to maximise revenue, profitability, and market share
- Conduct market, competitor, and customer analysis to identify growth opportunities
- Contribute to assortment planning, category prioritisation, and revenue planning across retail channels
- Translate strategic objectives into actionable plans for execution across commercial and retail teams
Sales Management & Commercial Implementation
- Drive annual sales volume and profitability budgets across retail and commercial segments
- Analyse monthly sales performance against targets and implement corrective actions where required
- Translate commercial strategies into executable plans, including pricing, promotions, and seasonal initiatives
- Oversee promotional calendars, markdown strategies, and retail execution plans
- Identify and resolve administrative and operational bottlenecks impacting sales performance
- Maintain and continuously improve customer service standards and operational efficiency
- Ensure effective utilisation of CRM systems and adherence to best practices
- Motivate and guide the sales force to achieve performance targets with appropriate governance and controls
- Ensure alignment across sales and marketing in close collaboration with operations, supply chain, and finance to ensure seamless execution of commercial plans
Profitability & Financial Management
- Analyse monthly sales and profitability reports and implement interventions to achieve margin targets
- Coordinate pricing processes to optimise profitability while maintaining competitiveness and market share
- Manage forecasting processes to support inventory planning, procurement, and demand alignment
- Monitor and optimise retail P&L performance, including cost of goods, markdowns, and inventory carrying costs
- Optimise depot inventory levels to ensure optimal stock availability while minimising inventory write-downs
Package & Remuneration
R1.4M per Annum CTC
Interested?
Acumen Resources Development (Pty) Ltd.
Jo-Ann Gallant
Royal Melbourne House, Fourways Golf Park, Roos St
2191 Fourways
http://www.acumenrd.co.za/