Job Description
The ideal candidate will:
- Drive daily engagement on customers’ performance reviews with Sales Territory Executives
- Manage day-to-day sales operations of the depot/ Sales Territories including all assets within the depot and the Vans for secondary sales.
- Monitor and manage products stock to avoid out of stock situations, expired or obsolete stock.
- Monitor stock returned from customers to ensure compliance with the stock return policy.
- Liaise with the insurance company on behalf of the assigned depot to ensure 100% cover of all inventories in the depot.
- Manage depot costs in line with company policy.
- Ensure full compliance of all forms of Credit exposure to distributors by the company.
- Drive quarterly meetings with distributors to review health check report with a view to improve distributors performance.
- Record and report all accidents and near misses in the depot.
- Monitor, analyse and report MTD & YTD sales by Depot/Category/Brand/SKU to the Regional Sales Manager.
- Agree and review route plan with team with a view to ensuring that all customers are captured.
- Monitor and review territory performance by STE/Customer/Category/Brand/SKU.
- Monitor and ensure price compliance in the territory and report competitors’ activities.
- Proper documentation of all business transaction documents & reconciliation.
- Supervise the Route to Market Activities and related personnel: STEs, OMSRs and VSRs.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- First Degree in Arts, Social sciences or any other relevant discipline.
- Minimum of five (5) years cumulative field sales experience preferably in a multinational FMCG.
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
- Organization and planning
- Business acumen
- Basic selling skills
- Numerical and analytical skills
- Negotiation skills
- Relationship management
- Decision making skills.
- Effective communication skills
- Result oriented
- Good customer service
- Interpersonal skills