Job Description
Job Description
- Territory Sales Representative for Jos will be in charge of developing Customer base in Jos, Benue, Nasarawa, Bauchi, Gombe and environs and translating potentials into Sales revenue in the market.
- He will cover all key customer and markets within Jos and environs to create demand and handle all other marketing and sales related activities for Saro Agro-Allied brands.
Customer Recruitment:
- Responsible for identifying key customers for Soybean Oil (RSO/CSO/BSO), Head Rice and SBM to target
- Ensure understanding of their local needs, behaviours & buying patterns.
- Enumerate all open market and HSM within territory, and develop a customer database within them for Refined consumer soya oil and Rice.
- Develop a journey plan with the database to ensure daily customer visits.
Sales Revenue:
- Apply sales and marketing skills in converting potential customers/sales lead to paying customers/demand
- Responsible for depletion of all inventory of Rice & SBM in Makurdi warehouse to drive territory target
- Understand how to retain customers through good customer relationship management.
- Ensure all Sales Payment is made into SAA bank account by customers.
Market Activations:
- Implement all tactical plans geared towards upselling, including promotions and branding activations
- Executing appropriate programmes and obtaining consumers' feedback for all new solutions.
Market Intelligence Gathering:
- Scan the environment weekly to understand the existing and emerging competitors play, dynamics, vulnerabilities and opportunities and report same to line manager.
Payment:
- Follow up with customer payment for both cash and credit customers, within stipulated leadtimes
CRM, Internal Collaboration & Others:
- Manage all customer issues towards building a sustainable relationship for growth.
- Collaborate with Logistics and Accounts & QA to ensure delivery of quality products to customers and handling all customer complaints, where necessary.
- Any other job that may be assigned by the team line manager
Reporting:
- Provides reports of functions on daily and weekly basis to line manager, Ilorin procurement mgr & other Interested parties.
Qualifications / Experience
- Minimum of a B.Sc.
- Applicant must have a minimum of 5 years with at least 3 years in commodity business, preferably Soybean and Rice value chain.
- Age: 25 - 32.
Competencies Required:
- Proactive self-starter
- Integrity & independent mind, and able to work under pressure.
- Highly organized and significant ability to multi-task effectively.
- Ability to work with all levels of the team with minimal and reasonable conflicts.