Job Description
S/he will lead the sales team to meet business targets by leveraging on existing high networking skills.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop and implement strategic marketing plans, sales plans, and forecasts to achieve corporate objectives for products and services.
- Carry out effective relationship management of existing customers and facilitate the renewal of contracts and/or increase the number of capacities and routes to customers.
- Engage in aggressive marketing and sale of capacities on routes where capacities are not utilized on the Company’s network, towards facilitation of full commercialization of the network.
- Meet with key clients, assisting sales representatives with maintaining relationships, negotiating, and closing deals.
- Carry out a pre-marketing assessment of oncoming routes within the country towards making them commercially ready for deployment.
- Lead on market research, competitor, and customer surveys.
- Manage the sales team, developing a business plan covering sales, revenues, and expense control, meeting agreed/assigned targets, and promoting the organization’s presence within Nigeria and the West African sub-region.
- Amplify and maintain a consistent corporate image throughout all product lines, promotional materials, and events.
- Strategize and plan the sales process management, forecasting, pricing, key account management, expenses, profitability new product development market research, and brand strategy.
- Accurately forecast annual, quarterly, and monthly revenue streams.
- Develop specific plans to ensure revenue growth in all company products.
- Lead on the development of budgets based on revenue forecasts for the division, analyze and control expenditures to conform to budgetary requirements.
- Work within the Business Operations Team, to optimize the business agility of P3TECH and take up key elements of leadership from under the Executive Chairman’s purview.
EDUCATION
- First degree in Sales, Management, Business Administration or a related fields.
- Master’s degree in a related field or an MBA will be an added advantage.
WORK EXPERIENCE
- Minimum of 12 years’ experience, 8 years in the telecoms sectors with five years at senior management level of large, multi-functional and multi-funded organizations.
- Strong experience managing large networks with multiple vendors and diverse equipment.
- Experienced in managing commercials in a fast-paced environment.
KEY SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES
- Strategic thinking and strong analytical skills.
- Mature, credible and comfortable in dealing with senior executives of multinational Organizations.
- Result- oriented, self-driven with a clear focus on high quality and business profit.
- Excellent leadership and managerial skills.
- Strong selling and revenue driving skills.
- Strong networking skills.
- Excellent communications skills, both written and oral including management report writing skills.
- Excellent business forecasting, judgement and good decision-making skills.
- Strong influencing and negotiating skill.
- Reliable, tolerant and determined and must also be an emphatic communicator.