Job Description
Role Overview
- African Naturalistas is into the manufacture and sales of Hair Products. We are looking for a highly proactive and execution-driven Wholesale Distribution Growth Executive to grow our wholesale and distributor sales across Nigeria.
This role is focused on one thing:
- Getting more active distributors, wholesalers, resellers, salons, beauty stores, and retail partners consistently buying African Naturalistas products in larger quantities.
- This is a hands-on role for someone who is hungry for sales, enjoys building relationships, and is comfortable using both digital and physical methods to grow wholesale revenue.
- The ideal candidate is not just a marketer or office-based salesperson, but someone who can actively source leads, follow up persistently, close wholesale deals, and maintain long-term distributor relationships.
What You Will Own
- Grow African Naturalistas’ wholesale and distributor sales across different regions and channels.
- Source and onboard new distributors, wholesalers, salons, beauty supply stores, and retail partners.
- Reactivate dormant distributors and strengthen relationships with existing wholesale customers.
- Use WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, email, phone calls, and physical visits to prospect and close new wholesale accounts.
- Build and maintain a healthy pipeline of distributor leads and opportunities.
- Conduct physical market visits, salon visits, beauty store visits, and networking activities to grow distribution.
- Follow up consistently with prospects and distributors to encourage repeat orders and stronger sales volumes.
- Work closely with the operations and production teams to communicate distributor demand and inventory needs.
- Maintain accurate records of leads, follow-ups, active distributors, sales performance, and reorders.
- Recommend promotional ideas and distributor incentive strategies to improve sales performance.
- Represent African Naturalistas professionally at trade fairs, beauty events, activations, and networking opportunities when necessary.
- Gather market intelligence, competitor insights, distributor feedback, and customer trends to help improve business decisions.
- Ensure wholesale customers receive excellent support, fast communication, and proper issue resolution.
Candidate Profile
- 2–5+ years experience in wholesale sales, distributor management, business development, FMCG, beauty, cosmetics, skincare, haircare, or related industries.
- Proven ability to generate sales and acquire customers/distributors independently.
- Comfortable with both online prospecting and physical field sales.
- Strong confidence in speaking, negotiating, following up, and closing deals.
- Experience using WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and other digital platforms for business development or sales outreach.
- Highly self-motivated and proactive with minimal supervision.
- Strong relationship-building and communication skills.
- Organized and disciplined with follow-up and reporting.
- Willing to travel locally for distributor meetings and market visits when necessary.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Word.
- Good people skills and friendly disposition.
This Role Is For You If…
- You genuinely enjoy selling and building business relationships.
- You are naturally proactive and do not wait to be pushed before taking action.
- You are comfortable moving between online outreach and physical market visits.
- You are persistent with follow-up and understand that sales happen through consistency.
- You enjoy finding opportunities, convincing people, and growing accounts over time.
- You thrive in fast-moving entrepreneurial environments where results matter more than titles.
- You are hungry to grow sales and directly contribute to business growth.
- You enjoy meeting people, networking, and opening new business opportunities.
- You are comfortable working independently without needing excessive supervision.
This Role Is Not For You If…
- You prefer purely office-based or administrative work.
- You dislike follow-up, prospecting, or relationship management.
- You are uncomfortable approaching new people or initiating sales conversations.
- You prefer strategy discussions more than execution and sales activity.
- You need constant supervision or motivation before taking action.
- You are more interested in social media content creation than actual sales generation.
- You are uncomfortable with sales targets and performance accountability.
- You prefer highly corporate environments with rigid structures and large support teams.
- You are looking for a managerial role where others do the execution for you.
KPIs / Success Metrics
- Number of new active distributors onboarded monthly.
- Monthly wholesale revenue growth.
- Distributor reorder frequency.
- Number of dormant distributors reactivated.
- Pipeline growth and follow-up consistency.
- Number of physical visits and prospecting activities completed weekly.
- Sales conversion rate from leads to active wholesale customers.